That was from challenge California. Only realised halfway through it tha should have gone straight for the Everest but as was so far in thought I would finish itCongratulations, it's taken me a fair while to get to level 25, that happened yesterday
You'd be much better off with a mid-range graphics card. The quadro series were never particularly fast for gaming purposes.I'm good for graphics, I'm using my old CAD workstation with an NVidia Quadro graphics card. Seems to do the job quite nicelyProbably pretty low spec now but it was nearly a grand new 5 years ago
I was quite pleased when worked scrapped it off in to the boot of my car
I did the same on the basis that I liked the look of the challenge map more than the Everesting one. I'm doing the latter now, and I'll go for the tron bike, but it'll take a long time I think!That was from challenge California. Only realised halfway through it tha should have gone straight for the Everest but as was so far in thought I would finish it
It seems to run fine, besides I use it for CAD more than I do for Zwift
I know what you mean. I'll be doing it again, but in part because it's an easy way to knock good chunk of climbing off the everest challenge.
Working to get the tron bike will become obsessive!
Well I've got no choice. I'll have to do it again.
I having a bash tomorrow morning, I was waiting until I started the Everest challenge so as to make a good start on it. I have never ever been up it before in any world soWell I've got no choice. I'll have to do it again.
Posted a few weeks back that I'd got to level 10 and was looking forward to riding the Alpe du Zwift. It was going to be the 4th version of Alpe d'HUez I'd ridden. I've done real life, Bkool, some simulator in my local bike shop that I can't remember and now Zwift! Except............ I then found out it was level 12 I needed to be at!!
Reached level 12 last week, so decided to take it on and picked the route with the longer run in to get nicely warmed up.
I was feeling a bit tired and sluggish from lots of hard rides over the previous week or so and decided to take it steady and not push too hard. I'd just started the climb when my Dad decided this was an excellent time to call my mobile. He's been in hospital so I had to take the call. No problem with that, but that put about a 4 minute dent in to my time on the climb, so I'm going to have to ride it again now!
When I posted that I was going to ride it when I got to level 10, a couple of people were interested in how I felt it compared to the real Alpe d'Huez. At the bottom it felt quite realistic as IRL it's quickly up to an 11% ramp and pretty much stays at 10/11% for the first 4 hairpins. I felt it eased a bit after that, but its never easy and is a tough climb. Alpe du Zwift seems to have far more and greater changes in gradient than real life. I can't honestly recall hitting 14% grades further up the climb, more of a relentless climb generally around 8% plus. So once I was past the first 4 hairpins, I really lost any thought of comparing it to the real life climb and just accepted it as a challenge.
As a few others have ridden Alpe d'Huez since, I'd be interested in their thoughts on how the two rides compare.
I'll certainly do it again anyway, as I think it will be excellent training for a trip to the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. And next time, I'm not answering the phone, Dad!
what sort of time will I be looking at 90mins??
I'd guess about 1h - 1h 10 mins.
My fastest climb is 75 mins I think. But that was in a race and I was pushing hard. A normal time for me is usually around 80 mins. I'm not a goat though, so you may be faster
cheers @Del C, I ll let you know but climbing isn't my thing, hence why I'm concentrating on climbing this winter
I thought you were faster than me on the Strava segment for the Alpe, so is 75 to 80 minutes your overall time including the run-in?
