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[LBHIFI]

What size are you

I'm 189 cm with an 92 cm inseam and orangutang arms (2m wingspan).

 

[berty bassett]

As soon as I said it I realised I was opening the door to ridicule first and last time I try to be nice

 

[JuhaL]

Your kidding aren’t you

There is a rule about asking womens age, i guess we can use same manners asking about mens size

 

[CXRAndy]

@peterob Dean did a 1hr20 ish for the Alpe

 

[peterob]

Yep. Spreadsheet updated to include Dean's and Darren's rides from yesterday....

Stage 7 looks like another one for the lightweights . I assume we'll be doing the longer 'A' distance?

 

[CXRAndy]

Just shy of 30 miles with 45-60 mins of climbing

 

[Whorty]

Rest day for me today. Need to be strong for final 3 stages as Michael and Chris are pulling away after their strong Alpe rides. I definitely need to do the Alpe again and see if I can gain another few minutes there; if not then I have no chance of catching them And Juha is only 5 mins behind me because he's been given the slowest time on stage 3; if he does that on the catch up then things could change a lot!

 

[Whorty]

Just shy of 30 miles with 45-60 mins of climbing

Not checked yet .... what course is it? Gonna have to get my climbing legs on (well, need to find some climbing legs first as it appears this is not my strength )

 

[bridgy]

Yep. Spreadsheet updated to include Dean's and Darren's rides from yesterday....

Stage 7 looks like another one for the lightweights . I assume we'll be doing the longer 'A' distance?

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Great work on the spreadsheet Pete - thanks for doing this.

I think we should stick to doing the A distance for all stages wherever possible.

As for stage 7 being one for the lightweights, aren't they all?! Every stage has a fair bit of climbing - and the next two stages are almost as much climbing overall as the Alpe, albeit over a longer distance. In a way I think I prefer the huge Alpe De Zwift climb where you can get into some kind of rhythm to the repeating of shorter, sharp hills

@Whorty stage 7 is Innsbuck:
Lap Distance: 23.6 km / 14.7 mi
Elevation gain per lap: 494 m / 1622 ft
Laps: 2
Lead-in distance: 0 km / 0 mi
Total distance with lead-in: 47.2 km / 29.4 mi

So 3244 feet of climbing - ADZ was 3752 feet of climbing by comparison. And the bad news is Stage 8 is THREE TIMES up Box Hill, and even more climbing than stage 7!!

 

[kipster]

Stage 9 is flat, only 1652ft of climbing. All this to unlock a jersey.....

 

[Whorty]

Great work on the spreadsheet Pete - thanks for doing this.

I think we should stick to doing the A distance for all stages wherever possible.

As for stage 7 being one for the lightweights, aren't they all?! Every stage has a fair bit of climbing - and the next two stages are almost as much climbing overall as the Alpe, albeit over a longer distance. In a way I think I prefer the huge Alpe De Zwift climb where you can get into some kind of rhythm to the repeating of shorter, sharp hills

@Whorty stage 7 is Innsbuck:
Lap Distance: 23.6 km / 14.7 mi
Elevation gain per lap: 494 m / 1622 ft
Laps: 2
Lead-in distance: 0 km / 0 mi
Total distance with lead-in: 47.2 km / 29.4 mi

So 3244 feet of climbing - ADZ was 3752 feet of climbing by comparison. And the bad news is Stage 8 is THREE TIMES up Box Hill, and even more climbing than stage 7!!

Cheers .....

I'm going to set myself up here, but I think this will suit me better than the Alpe as I will get some rest between the climbs. It's the relentless 70 mins (for me) climbing on Alpe that destroys my times. Stage 7 is where I start to make my comeback


..... or just die on my arse again

 

[Freelanderuk]

I was hoping to do stage 7 at 9am tomorrow but hospital appointment for me then straight to visiting mom in hospital means it may be a 7pm start ,hopefully there will be sometime done for me to aim for Carl

 

[Aleman]

Going to give it another day of rest/recovery to make up for the one and one third climb of the Alpe over the weekend

So it'll be Wednesday at 7PM for me

 

[JuhaL]

Rest day for me today. Need to be strong for final 3 stages as Michael and Chris are pulling away after their strong Alpe rides. I definitely need to do the Alpe again and see if I can gain another few minutes there; if not then I have no chance of catching them And Juha is only 5 mins behind me because he's been given the slowest time on stage 3; if he does that on the catch up then things could change a lot!

I check my work calender yesterday to take a look can i ride all stages and noticed yes i can. Stage 3 is only stage i need to ride in make-up day. I would say 5-6 riders are very close each other at a Petes list. Positions might be change but gap still remains very small

edit: oops, wrong smiley, now looks better.

 

[bobinski]

I love Innsbruck but looking at the figures below and knowing what i am capable of at the moment its going to be a 3 hour ride
Innsbruck KOM Forward
Climbing 400m Avg Grade 5.4% Distance 7.4km
All Time 22:02 272w 72.0kg 3.8wkg 20.2kmh 4 September 2018


Innsbruck UCI Lap
Climbing 496m Avg Grade 0.0% Distance 23.7km
All Time 43:33 248w 72.0kg 3.4wkg 32.6kmh 9 August 2018