Zwift Chat

[Norry1]

Just raced. Legs tired. Will give H&H a go but i won't be in lead group

Nicely warmed up

 

[Whorty]

Nicely warmed up

If you get a fast group like we had you'll smash my time.

Well chuffed I managed 2 races (54 mins and 58 mins) and had good watts for both (245 and 239). I did get a rest between races where I turned the pedals over so not as impressive as it looks on paper

 

[JuhaL]

Super League live stream on youtube now.

 

[Freelanderuk]

Well done all

 

[Whorty]

Just checked Zwift and overall I rode 90km today across the 2 races plus the warm ups At weigh in today I was 81.4kg (12st 11lb) - lowest I've been in donkey's years. I've known my wife since I was 25 and she's never seen me below 12st 7lb. I am as chuffed as chuffed can be

Just looked at my first race times, and I recorded my 2nd and 3rd best times up Box Hill

 

[JuhaL]

Just checked Zwift and overall I rode 90km today across the 2 races plus the warm ups At weigh in today I was 81.4kg (12st 11lb) - lowest I've been in donkey's years. I've known my wife since I was 25 and she's never seen me below 12st 7lb. I am as chuffed as chuffed can be

It sounds that you are started to enjoy of Zwift, beware other riders

 

[Norry1]

Just checked Zwift and overall I rode 90km today across the 2 races plus the warm ups At weigh in today I was 81.4kg (12st 11lb) - lowest I've been in donkey's years. I've known my wife since I was 25 and she's never seen me below 12st 7lb. I am as chuffed as chuffed can be

Awesome stuff. We'll soon be like lightweight climbers

 

[Whorty]

Awesome stuff. We'll soon be like lightweight climbers

I'll take 'lighter weight' We'll be knocking on the door of the Bs soon, and chasing down Andy, Dean, Bob .... better watch over your shoulders guys, there are some new kids* on the block


* old kids clearly

 

[Whorty]

Such a cheeky little F..er!

No, not you Carl but that there Tommy


Those C’s were frigging B’s and I tried to get them to rein it in a bit and work as agroup. Carl and Martin tried too but some wanted to push on at 3.5w/k. I knew I wouldn’t last so put in a 20 min effort with a lot of draft assisted PB’s .

I didn't see you go Bob but not surprised. That was a horrible pace with the inclines. On the flats we could keep everyone together, but as soon as we hit an incline they went to 4 w/kg and totally blew the group apart. Your knee is getting there though; you're pushing some good watts already Shouldn't be long now before you're back to your old self .... well, old self without the old knee

 

[Whorty]

Movistar to race on Bkool

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/movistar-launch-virtual-racing-competition-407428

Be interesting which trainer they use.

 

[bobinski]

I didn't see you go Bob but not surprised. That was a horrible pace with the inclines. On the flats we could keep everyone together, but as soon as we hit an incline they went to 4 w/kg and totally blew the group apart. Your knee is getting there though; you're pushing some good watts already Shouldn't be long now before you're back to your old self .... well, old self without the old knee

Knees not a worry, coming on nicely but bloody hell my lungs struggled to keep up today.
Your fitness is coming on leaps and bounds but gives me something to chase

 

[Whorty]

Knees not a worry, coming on nicely but bloody hell my lungs struggled to keep up today.
Your fitness is coming on leaps and bounds but gives me something to chase

I'm watching you get faster and ride longer and am in no doubt that once you're a full fitness you're a much, much stronger rider than me. I just hope as you get fitter again I can increase my fitness, and lose weight, so I can try to be competitive. I have Martin ahead I'm chasing, and you about to overtake me .... incentive enough to keep me focused

 

[uclown2002]

It resembles the graph at the bottom of Zwift as well… It is the just the way I ride, power on, power off->draft, losing positions, power on to regain position in front half, power off->draft… Also I have no power smoothing enabled (that I know of) on my Direto, so the power will fluctuate greatly.

Will probably look different in a H&H race, as people tend to work together and nobody tries to ride off the front. I'm not Summit member on Strava, so I can't see those graphs, but please post the one from the H&H on February 6th.

I expect the finish time for the front B's tonight will be 45-48 minutes max. I got dropped a few times yesterday, and rode alone a few km, which of course doesn't help...

You need to change your 'power on-power-off' technique because you are exploiting the ant+ bug (either intentionally or not) where the power sticks for 3 secs or so giving you an unfair advantage. It has nothing to do with power smoothing and all to do with stopping pedalling once you hit a large number of watts. You can see that on your graph if you zoom in and look at the flat tops. We (ZP) would normally suspend someone for a month if that was reported directly to us or otherwise discovered by us.

 

[berty bassett]

come on - where are all the cc for tonight

 

[bobinski]

come on - where are all the cc for tonight

I should be on but 5-30 will be a struggle.