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alex_cycles
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- Location
- Oxfordshire
I did the midday Dadurday Chase race yesterday. Excellent fun. 4 laps of Champs Elysees in C.
We stayed off for 2 laps and caught the Ds, then the Bs came through and I managed to latch on with 3 others.
Held on for a lap then died just before the sprint. Had about 30s to recover and then the As came through and I managed to latch on to a straggler, then grouped up with 2 other As until the finish. The other 3 Cs held on well and beat me by 1:10, but I beat the main C pack by 33s
I like these for a couple of reasons...
1) great fun
2) don't affect your vELO score
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There were quite a few B cats within our C group, they shredded the pack, dropped me on the Pont d' gard climb, Nick got dropped on the descent from the leaders. We eventually caught Nick.. Nick suggested he lead me out for a sprint. He went with about 600 metres, but then my power just flatlined on Zwift at 250W, 
I was winding up my effort and got distracted by the lack of speed, backed off then went again, but not much power response, now had lost my mojo.
Then was overtaken by some of group Nick and I were with.
Had I known that I was on for the win, Id have tried harder. But it said I was 14th over the line so at least 10 B cats were in our group.
Came 3rd officially. Nick 4th
Notable time 24.50 getting dropped and the finish where the video link starts playing YouTube still rendering into HD
View: https://youtu.be/3KRMmiPHkO0?t=2479
I was winding up my effort and got distracted by the lack of speed, backed off then went again, but not much power response, now had lost my mojo.
Then was overtaken by some of group Nick and I were with. Had I known that I was on for the win, Id have tried harder. But it said I was 14th over the line so at least 10 B cats were in our group.
Came 3rd officially. Nick 4th
Notable time 24.50 getting dropped and the finish where the video link starts playing YouTube still rendering into HD
View: https://youtu.be/3KRMmiPHkO0?t=2479
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alex_cycles
Veteran
- Location
- Oxfordshire
There were quite a few B cats within our C group, they shredded the pack, dropped me on the Pont d' gard climb, Nick got dropped on the descent from the leaders. We eventually caught Nick.. Nick suggested he lead me out for a sprint. He went with about 600 metres, but then my power just flatlined on Zwift at 250W,
I was winding up my effort and got distracted by the lack of speed, backed off then went again, but not much power response, now had lost my mojo.
Had I known that I was on for the win, Id have tried harder. But it said I was 14th over the line so at least 10 B cats were in our group.
Came 3rd officially. Nick 4th
Notable time 24.50 getting dropped and the finish where the video link starts playing YouTube still rendering into HD
View: https://youtu.be/3KRMmiPHkO0?t=2479
Weird, that. Almost looks like either a comms issue between your bike/trainer and Zwift or a dicky power meter.
@BurningLegs Nick you got DQd for going over the limit.
| WKG | 8/6/23 | Hare & Hound Handicap Race | 3.2w/kg | 225w | 233w | 3.4w/kg | 3.7w/kg | 4.1w/kg | 4.7w/kg | 4.9w/kg | 70.4kg | 182bpm | 196bpm | 25km |
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
It's on iPlayer for the next 29 days.Seen the Worlds senior men's result and a few clips of it.
Must find a rerun somewhere
alex_cycles
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- Location
- Oxfordshire
Seen the Worlds senior men's result and a few clips of it
Matthieu vdp dropped a feather and put in a big dig on the Clyde Kicker
mjd1988
Guru
I think he's not used to steering being enabled on the zwiftplay though
Here is my Race Report from The only World Championship Race that mattered this year 
Well the race that I have been preparing for for four years is now done and dusted and disappearing quickly in the rear view mirror.
The UCI’s first “Super-World’s” was announced in February 2019 and as it was in Scotland it became my long term aiming point. My target was “to qualify and be competitive.”
I qualified for and raced in the 2019 World’s in Poznan, Poland and then came Covid in 2020 and 2021 which kaiboshed the events and then I had my hip replacement in 2022 which obviously prevented me racing at all that year.
In June this year I qualified for Scotland at the Tour of Cambridgeshire and I now had a decent batch of races behind me. I feel my endurance and durability is as good if not better than before but my peak power is not quite back yet.
So enough of the preamble. I headed up to Perth on Wednesday so I could register 2 days ahead of the race. There was a big queue which stretched 100m outside the HQ (Perth Concert Hall). Apparently this was due to the fact that each transponder had to be set up on the web and the internet in the area was creaking due to the number of people using it!
My hotel was on the course and I set off the next morning to recce the first 20+ miles of the route. The route was lumpy but with no major climbs at all which is probably not ideal for a mass event as it doesn’t help the race to split up. I noted where the terrain might create breaks and put them on a piece of paper taped to my top tube.
The weather forecast was dodgy and people said it had rained most days for the previous month. Amazingly as I rode to the start of the race, the sun came out and we had no rain all day.
I arrived early but was still unable to get to the front of the pen. All of a sudden my four year target was here and the race started. It was fast from the off as expected. The first 14 miles were broadly trending upwards but speeds were still high as the gradients were generally slight.
There were 145 on the start list and I think most of them started. I wanted to move nearer the front but so did everyone else and even on the decent roads I found it hard to move up. I was sat about 2/3 of the way back and hoping no splits happened nearer the front.
After 14 miles there was a stretch of 7 miles or so where we were losing elevation with a tailwind and on narrower country lanes. The group was mainly still all together so we were riding fast and close and there were a lot of sketchy moments when the pack would slow suddenly. I smelt scorched rubber several times where riders were braking so hard. Luckily there were no crashes, that I saw anyway.
My fuelling strategy was 2 bottles of Beta Fuel (90g carb each bottle) for the expected 2hr 15-20 mins of the race but riding so close it was hard to find opportunities to take the drink so I only managed to take half of it onboard.
Being over 60 years of age we were doing the Medio Fondo which was 53.9 miles – the younger guys did the Gran Fondo which was 100 miles. With 14 miles to go, we rejoined the Gran Fondo route and people started planning for the finish. It is hard to know exactly but I’d say well over half of the starters were still together in the lead group – people were dropping slowly out the back as no attacks had stuck.
Typically I get relatively stronger as races proceed and this was happening today. I was slowly moving up the field and felt I’d be at the sharp end in a few miles.
With 10 miles to go we were motoring along at 35 mph when I heard some shouts and crashing noises, I saw people drop. I thought I’d avoided it until a guy on my left got clipped and went down 2m in front of me. I had no time to avoid him and went straight into and over him which took me down. Instinct made me just jump up and back on my bike. The bike seemed ok and I couldn’t feel any problems with myself.
Unsurprisingly this caused a split and about 50 riders were up the road. 10 of us got together and tried to bridge the gap. As usual, not everyone was working but we managed to close the gap down to 100m but just couldn’t make that final catch which was frustrating. Then with a mile or so to go, we slowed a bit as we knew the group were gone.
There was a very sharp right turn into the finish at Scone Palace and an entrance though a narrow gateway. I went in first of our group and then let a few come past me as there was still 5-600m to go. I sat on the wheels and then sprinted. It was a bit pointless sprinting for 50th position but I thought why not? I took 2 guys on the line and came 3rd of that group and 54th overall. My time was 2hrs 16mins 18s at an average speed of 23.8mph.
The race was won by a Norwegian guy, Jorn Fjeldavlie in a time of 2:14:57. Silver and Bronze went to Rob Pears and Mike Twelves respectively which was great. I think I was the 13th GB finisher which coincidentally is the same position I’d come in the British Cycling Road Race Champs recently.
So my big target race was now done and dusted. I’d performed okay but will never know how I might have done if I hadn’t crashed. Of course, if I’d been nearer the front I wouldn’t have got caught in it.
My Normalised power was around 20W lower than my recent (longer) races and I don’t know if that is because I wasn’t on best form or because I stayed away from the front.
It was great to be part of this first Super-Worlds and I’m pleased I was in the lead group until crashing. The race was 2 weeks shy of being on the first anniversary of my total hip replacement so I am grateful that I was able to even get to these finals.
I hope the other fallers in the crash are okay. There was some pretty chilling screaming going on at the time.
I’m now in the post-event motivation dip so I need to find another enticing target to provide the motivation we all need to train like we do. Aalborg, Denmark 2024 anyone? Onwards.
Hopefully the event pics will be out soon.
Well the race that I have been preparing for for four years is now done and dusted and disappearing quickly in the rear view mirror.
The UCI’s first “Super-World’s” was announced in February 2019 and as it was in Scotland it became my long term aiming point. My target was “to qualify and be competitive.”
I qualified for and raced in the 2019 World’s in Poznan, Poland and then came Covid in 2020 and 2021 which kaiboshed the events and then I had my hip replacement in 2022 which obviously prevented me racing at all that year.
In June this year I qualified for Scotland at the Tour of Cambridgeshire and I now had a decent batch of races behind me. I feel my endurance and durability is as good if not better than before but my peak power is not quite back yet.
So enough of the preamble. I headed up to Perth on Wednesday so I could register 2 days ahead of the race. There was a big queue which stretched 100m outside the HQ (Perth Concert Hall). Apparently this was due to the fact that each transponder had to be set up on the web and the internet in the area was creaking due to the number of people using it!
My hotel was on the course and I set off the next morning to recce the first 20+ miles of the route. The route was lumpy but with no major climbs at all which is probably not ideal for a mass event as it doesn’t help the race to split up. I noted where the terrain might create breaks and put them on a piece of paper taped to my top tube.
The weather forecast was dodgy and people said it had rained most days for the previous month. Amazingly as I rode to the start of the race, the sun came out and we had no rain all day.
I arrived early but was still unable to get to the front of the pen. All of a sudden my four year target was here and the race started. It was fast from the off as expected. The first 14 miles were broadly trending upwards but speeds were still high as the gradients were generally slight.
There were 145 on the start list and I think most of them started. I wanted to move nearer the front but so did everyone else and even on the decent roads I found it hard to move up. I was sat about 2/3 of the way back and hoping no splits happened nearer the front.
After 14 miles there was a stretch of 7 miles or so where we were losing elevation with a tailwind and on narrower country lanes. The group was mainly still all together so we were riding fast and close and there were a lot of sketchy moments when the pack would slow suddenly. I smelt scorched rubber several times where riders were braking so hard. Luckily there were no crashes, that I saw anyway.
My fuelling strategy was 2 bottles of Beta Fuel (90g carb each bottle) for the expected 2hr 15-20 mins of the race but riding so close it was hard to find opportunities to take the drink so I only managed to take half of it onboard.
Being over 60 years of age we were doing the Medio Fondo which was 53.9 miles – the younger guys did the Gran Fondo which was 100 miles. With 14 miles to go, we rejoined the Gran Fondo route and people started planning for the finish. It is hard to know exactly but I’d say well over half of the starters were still together in the lead group – people were dropping slowly out the back as no attacks had stuck.
Typically I get relatively stronger as races proceed and this was happening today. I was slowly moving up the field and felt I’d be at the sharp end in a few miles.
With 10 miles to go we were motoring along at 35 mph when I heard some shouts and crashing noises, I saw people drop. I thought I’d avoided it until a guy on my left got clipped and went down 2m in front of me. I had no time to avoid him and went straight into and over him which took me down. Instinct made me just jump up and back on my bike. The bike seemed ok and I couldn’t feel any problems with myself.
Unsurprisingly this caused a split and about 50 riders were up the road. 10 of us got together and tried to bridge the gap. As usual, not everyone was working but we managed to close the gap down to 100m but just couldn’t make that final catch which was frustrating. Then with a mile or so to go, we slowed a bit as we knew the group were gone.
There was a very sharp right turn into the finish at Scone Palace and an entrance though a narrow gateway. I went in first of our group and then let a few come past me as there was still 5-600m to go. I sat on the wheels and then sprinted. It was a bit pointless sprinting for 50th position but I thought why not? I took 2 guys on the line and came 3rd of that group and 54th overall. My time was 2hrs 16mins 18s at an average speed of 23.8mph.
The race was won by a Norwegian guy, Jorn Fjeldavlie in a time of 2:14:57. Silver and Bronze went to Rob Pears and Mike Twelves respectively which was great. I think I was the 13th GB finisher which coincidentally is the same position I’d come in the British Cycling Road Race Champs recently.
So my big target race was now done and dusted. I’d performed okay but will never know how I might have done if I hadn’t crashed. Of course, if I’d been nearer the front I wouldn’t have got caught in it.
My Normalised power was around 20W lower than my recent (longer) races and I don’t know if that is because I wasn’t on best form or because I stayed away from the front.
It was great to be part of this first Super-Worlds and I’m pleased I was in the lead group until crashing. The race was 2 weeks shy of being on the first anniversary of my total hip replacement so I am grateful that I was able to even get to these finals.
I hope the other fallers in the crash are okay. There was some pretty chilling screaming going on at the time.
I’m now in the post-event motivation dip so I need to find another enticing target to provide the motivation we all need to train like we do. Aalborg, Denmark 2024 anyone? Onwards.
Hopefully the event pics will be out soon.
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alex_cycles
Veteran
- Location
- Oxfordshire
Here is my Race Report from The only World Championship Race that mattered this year
Well the race that I have been preparing for for four years is now done and dusted and disappearing quickly in the rear view mirror.
The UCI’s first “Super-World’s” was announced in February 2019 and as it was in Scotland it became my long term aiming point. My target was “to qualify and be competitive.”
I qualified for and raced in the 2019 World’s in Poznan, Poland and then came Covid in 2020 and 2021 which kaiboshed the events and then I had my hip replacement in 2022 which obviously prevented me racing at all that year.
In June this year I qualified for Scotland at the Tour of Cambridgeshire and I now had a decent batch of races behind me. I feel my endurance and durability is as good if not better than before but my peak power is not quite back yet.
So enough of the preamble. I headed up to Perth on Wednesday so I could register 2 days ahead of the race. There was a big queue which stretched 100m outside the HQ (Perth Concert Hall). Apparently this was due to the fact that each transponder had to be set up on the web and the internet in the area was creaking due to the number of people using it!
My hotel was on the course and I set off the next morning to recce the first 20+ miles of the route. The route was lumpy but with no major climbs at all which is probably not ideal for a mass event as it doesn’t help the race to split up. I noted where the terrain might create breaks and put them on a piece of paper taped to my top tube.
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The weather forecast was dodgy and people said it had rained most days for the previous month. Amazingly as I rode to the start of the race, the sun came out and we had no rain all day.
I arrived early but was still unable to get to the front of the pen. All of a sudden my four year target was here and the race started. It was fast from the off as expected. The first 14 miles were broadly trending upwards but speeds were still high as the gradients were generally slight.
There were 145 on the start list and I think most of them started. I wanted to move nearer the front but so did everyone else and even on the decent roads I found it hard to move up. I was sat about 2/3 of the way back and hoping no splits happened nearer the front.
After 14 miles there was a stretch of 7 miles or so where we were losing elevation with a tailwind and on narrower country lanes. The group was mainly still all together so we were riding fast and close and there were a lot of sketchy moments when the pack would slow suddenly. I smelt scorched rubber several times where riders were braking so hard. Luckily there were no crashes, that I saw anyway.
My fuelling strategy was 2 bottles of Beta Fuel (90g carb each bottle) for the expected 2hr 15-20 mins of the race but riding so close it was hard to find opportunities to take the drink so I only managed to take half of it onboard.
Being over 60 years of age we were doing the Medio Fondo which was 53.9 miles – the younger guys did the Gran Fondo which was 100 miles. With 14 miles to go, we rejoined the Gran Fondo route and people started planning for the finish. It is hard to know exactly but I’d say well over half of the starters were still together in the lead group – people were dropping slowly out the back as no attacks had stuck.
Typically I get relatively stronger as races proceed and this was happening today. I was slowly moving up the field and felt I’d be at the sharp end in a few miles.
With 10 miles to go we were motoring along at 35 mph when I heard some shouts and crashing noises, I saw people drop. I thought I’d avoided it until a guy on my left got clipped and went down 2m in front of me. I had no time to avoid him and went straight into and over him which took me down. Instinct made me just jump up and back on my bike. The bike seemed ok and I couldn’t feel any problems with myself.
Unsurprisingly this caused a split and about 50 riders were up the road. 10 of us got together and tried to bridge the gap. As usual, not everyone was working but we managed to close the gap down to 100m but just couldn’t make that final catch which was frustrating. Then with a mile or so to go, we slowed a bit as we knew the group were gone.
There was a very sharp right turn into the finish at Scone Palace and an entrance though a narrow gateway. I went in first of our group and then let a few come past me as there was still 5-600m to go. I sat on the wheels and then sprinted. It was a bit pointless sprinting for 50th position but I thought why not? I took 2 guys on the line and came 3rd of that group and 54th overall. My time was 2hrs 16mins 18s at an average speed of 23.8mph.
The race was won by a Norwegian guy, Jorn Fjeldavlie in a time of 2:14:57. Silver and Bronze went to Rob Pears and Mike Twelves respectively which was great. I think I was the 13th GB finisher which coincidentally is the same position I’d come in the British Cycling Road Race Champs recently.
So my big target race was now done and dusted. I’d performed okay but will never know how I might have done if I hadn’t crashed. Of course, if I’d been nearer the front I wouldn’t have got caught in it.
My Normalised power was around 20W lower than my recent (longer) races and I don’t know if that is because I wasn’t on best form or because I stayed away from the front.
It was great to be part of this first Super-Worlds and I’m pleased I was in the lead group until crashing. The race was 2 weeks shy of being on the first anniversary of my total hip replacement so I am grateful that I was able to even get to these finals.
I hope the other fallers in the crash are okay. There was some pretty chilling screaming going on at the time.
I’m now in the post-event motivation dip so I need to find another enticing target to provide the motivation we all need to train like we do. Aalborg, Denmark 2024 anyone? Onwards.
Hopefully the event pics will be out soon.
Awesome Martin. Well done and so glad you didn't get hurt.
alex_cycles
Veteran
- Location
- Oxfordshire
He did it. This is Brian from our club...
View: https://twitter.com/GcnRacing/status/1688575094174445569?s=20
View: https://twitter.com/GcnRacing/status/1688575094174445569?s=20
