Zwift Chat

[Whorty]

Good luck to everyone ZRLing tonight! KOM is gonna hurt! 💪

Same ... Good luck

Oh, and every KoM hurts 🤣

 

[CXRAndy]

I took part as the sweeper

Wasn't feeling great so decided to see if I could hang on the back, didn't work, so I made it a Z2 cadence ride. Until I crested the final climb , I threw caution to the wind and would see how I felt tomorrow. Scrabbled a 1000W finish sprint, then calves cramped .

How did everyone else do?

 

[13 rider]

I saw you hit 5 plus w/kg coming downhill ,I thought I don't think that zone 2

 

[Legs]

Fuck, laptop crashed with 900m to go!

 

[Legs]

I was in 3rd place, in the leading group of 9… but classified 20th, a minute down??? At least it registered a finish, otherwise I think I’d have lost all the intermediate points.

 

[Peter Salt]

I took part as the sweeper

Wasn't feeling great so decided to see if I could hang on the back, didn't work, so I made it a Z2 cadence ride. Until I crested the final climb , I threw caution to the wind and would see how I felt tomorrow. Scrabbled a 1000W finish sprint, then calves cramped .

How did everyone else do?

Did alright, but I'm still coughing and lack recovery ability. Had to stand down on Railway and didn't quite had enough for the finish.

 

[13 rider]

I was in 3rd place, in the leading group of 9… but classified 20th, 2 mins down??? At least it registered a finish, otherwise I think I’d have lost all the intermediate points.

Bloody unlucky , but like you say it salvaged some points

 

[Legs]

YESSSS!!!

 

[Joffey]

That was grim

 

[Legs]

Did alright, but I'm still coughing and lack recovery ability. Had to stand down on Railway and didn't quite had enough for the finish.

That’s very modest of you! If that’s the kind of performance you can turn in when ill, you’ll be upgraded to A straight away when you’re back firing on all cylinders!

 

[bridgy]

My video of the ZRL race


View: https://youtu.be/1sG5TyPgQRk?si=P39VVYL51LulpdEd

 

[Peter Salt]

That’s very modest of you! If that’s the kind of performance you can turn in when ill, you’ll be upgraded to A straight away when you’re back firing on all cylinders!

Not quite Ill anymore - just can't seem to shake off the cough. Otherwise I'm fine.

Funnily enough, I can put similar effort than before - but my ability to push, recover, and push again is gone. Sloooowly coming back though.

 

[Legs]

I was in 3rd place, in the leading group of 9… but classified 20th, a minute down??? At least it registered a finish, otherwise I think I’d have lost all the intermediate points.

Because the screen just froze, I kept pedalling in case it was still working server-side and would at least get me to the finish line. I glanced at my watch and figured that 900m would take at most 2 minutes, so I PLFed for about 3 minutes, just to be on the safe side, before I got off and tried to sort it out.

I retrieved the FIT file from ZwiftPower to upload to Strava, and herein is the strange part - the FIT file has the activity at 33.8km, whereas I think the full race distance should have been 35.1km. By that token I’m not sure why I’ve been classified on ZwiftPower and certainly not sure how I lost a minute, unless, I suppose, my avatar freewheeled to the finish line. It would be interesting to know whether the other riders saw my avatar coasting to the line!

 

[Girafitti]

Because the screen just froze, I kept pedalling in case it was still working server-side and would at least get me to the finish line. I glanced at my watch and figured that 900m would take at most 2 minutes, so I PLFed for about 3 minutes, just to be on the safe side, before I got off and tried to sort it out.

I retrieved the FIT file from ZwiftPower to upload to Strava, and herein is the strange part - the FIT file has the activity at 33.8km, whereas I think the full race distance should have been 35.1km. By that token I’m not sure why I’ve been classified on ZwiftPower and certainly not sure how I lost a minute, unless, I suppose, my avatar freewheeled to the finish line. It would be interesting to know whether the other riders saw my avatar coasting to the line!

That would have cost us 1st place

 

[Legs]

That would have cost us 1st place

As would losing the points that Dries and Joel scored for us, so they need a big-up for that!

I'm glad there haven't been any repercussions for Niek riding in the wrong jersey... I didn't realise he was with us in the lead group until I glanced at the side-bar once we got through to the countryside.