Legs
usually riding on Zwift...
- Location
- Staffordshire
I think it has to be at 100% TD to count for vEveresting…
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Peter Salt
Bittersweet
- Location
- Yorkshire, UK
Cheers Lads. And thanks for encouraging messages on the course too - they helped a little.
Yeah, I had an amateur pit crew, @IrishAl - got just two pairs for indoor so they washed and dried them for me after each ascent. Mostly ate sweet snacks but complemented them with very salty gnocchi.
Legs feeling fine - well about as fine as they can after a long time on the bike. Feet, knees, hips all in order. Even sit bones took the pressure just fine. Energy levels OK, and all that. Unfortunately, the weak link turned out to be chafing - peeled off my skin on 4th ascent, despite very generous lubing. 5th ascent after that wasn't too bad but when I got to 6th the pain was quite bad with every pedal stroke - could barely hold 120 watts.
But made it all the way up and got the badge.
I wasn't really planning on submitting but now will probably do. Read the rules and they seem a bit more relaxed nowadays.
Peter Salt
Bittersweet
- Location
- Yorkshire, UK
Just over 230km and nearly 9000m of elevation (~145 miles / 29,500ft).
Riding time of 13.5h and elapsed of 15.5.
First four ascents at a steady pace of just under 2h each. Then 2:20 when chafing started and the last, really painful one, was over 3h.
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mjd1988
Guru
I've done ventop once, 4 years ago, and it took me over 2 hours 🤣. I actually can't believe it has been there for 4 years
Brusgaard
Über Guru
- Location
- Skive, Denmark
Yes, I did it once too, 1h50m for the climb itself. I remember spending more than 2 hours, so I guess there is a lead-in of sorts? After the ordeal, I said to myself “Never again!”.
EDIT: 2h18m including the downhill part, no lead-in it seems.
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steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
If you do the Ven-Top route, there is a bit of a lead-in from the pens before the actual Ventoux segment officially starts of 2 km / 1.2 miles, but even that is slightly uphill (2.8% avg, 8% max) so most people do regard the whole route as being the climb.
I've only done it once; 2h 24 for Ventoux, 2h 30 for Ven-Top and that was a low Zone 2 effort with a 3 minute break at halfway. Think I could take at least ten minutes off that time with a high Zone 2 but the monotony of it does not appeal.
I've only done it once; 2h 24 for Ventoux, 2h 30 for Ven-Top and that was a low Zone 2 effort with a 3 minute break at halfway. Think I could take at least ten minutes off that time with a high Zone 2 but the monotony of it does not appeal.
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Brusgaard
Über Guru
- Location
- Skive, Denmark
Yes! I found it incredibly boring too. At least on AdZ you get some stats and stuff to keep you "entertained".
Well done Pete. That many times up Ventop deserves huge credit. I averaged around 1hour per ascent on the vE on AdZ so it broke the torture into nice chunks. I can only imagine the pain of peeled undercarriage skin. Can we have a pic? 📸 😷
Yes Soller would be the place to go. Bunyola is a nice small town / village with a quaint square and cafes for a stop off. I didn’t get to them but I was told Deia and Valdemossa are nice too - you could combine Andy’s route with a return via those 2 towns.
https://cycle.travel/map/journey/549087 - this route has part of the Deia and Valdemossa Soller route that you would need. The website cycle.travel seems good for route plotting and getting you off the busy A roads.
Another possible destination is Puig Randa - nice monastary and military radar station on the summit - about a 10/15 minute climb with great panoramic views in the centre of the island.
First Zwift race in about 6 weeks today. Flat course (obviously) so I could at least attempt to find a group to hang on to - surprised myself and stuck with the leaders until the finish. I'm 56th on ZP, and there were approx 65 in our group (ZP has 97 finishers, there were 139 I think in the pens at the start - still don't get why Zwift can't just align with ZP and make all Zwift users active in ZP).
Legs were tired at the end. I'd been to the gym this morning for legs and cardio so not really surprising. I contemplated attacking the sprint but would have been futile and I didn't see the point in having an asthma attack for 40th place
What I did notice though is the fields are so much stronger since they fiddled with the cats. We now have riders with 20 minute 3.6+ w/kg in C whereas they would have easily been B riders previously. As I've never been near the 3.6 w/kg numbers I think it's fair to say I'll never be riding B cat again
Legs were tired at the end. I'd been to the gym this morning for legs and cardio so not really surprising. I contemplated attacking the sprint but would have been futile and I didn't see the point in having an asthma attack for 40th place
What I did notice though is the fields are so much stronger since they fiddled with the cats. We now have riders with 20 minute 3.6+ w/kg in C whereas they would have easily been B riders previously. As I've never been near the 3.6 w/kg numbers I think it's fair to say I'll never be riding B cat again
First Zwift race in about 6 weeks today. Flat course (obviously) so I could at least attempt to find a group to hang on to - surprised myself and stuck with the leaders until the finish. I'm 56th on ZP, and there were approx 65 in our group (ZP has 97 finishers, there were 139 I think in the pens at the start - still don't get why Zwift can't just align with ZP and make all Zwift users active in ZP).
Legs were tired at the end. I'd been to the gym this morning for legs and cardio so not really surprising. I contemplated attacking the sprint but would have been futile and I didn't see the point in having an asthma attack for 40th place
What I did notice though is the fields are so much stronger since they fiddled with the cats. We now have riders with 20 minute 3.6+ w/kg in C whereas they would have easily been B riders previously. As I've never been near the 3.6 w/kg numbers I think it's fair to say I'll never be riding B cat again
I noticed, which I think Paul and others have also noticed, there are much more powerful riders within each category.
Im going for stage 3 Bag the Badge at 10am today.-Anyone in C fancy joining me?
