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Post by r0b1et on Feb 23, 2017 23:37:06 GMT
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Post by joek1973 on Feb 24, 2017 8:03:43 GMT
Great stuff! How you can generate that amount of watts is beyond me! Chapeau!
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Post by r0b1et on Feb 24, 2017 8:15:31 GMT
Great stuff! How you can generate that amount of watts is beyond me! Chapeau! I just peddle as hard as I can! I laid down everything i had left and hoped I'd get enough gap to be able to hold for the line (on the downhill).
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Post by RobP on Feb 24, 2017 21:42:29 GMT
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Post by RobP on Mar 2, 2017 18:56:45 GMT
Racing kiss Europe cat c tonight 20.00
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Post by robertsims on Mar 2, 2017 22:43:03 GMT
Racing kiss Europe cat c tonight 20.00 How did you get on?
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Post by RobP on Mar 2, 2017 23:00:13 GMT
Racing kiss Europe cat c tonight 20.00 How did you get on? Zwift had a hiccup, started in the pen with everyone else flagged dropped and the usual opening sprint at full gas on Wattopia reverse course. got to the top of first climb with main pack and as I got to turn off for Volcano circuit the pack went left on main loop and zwift sent me to the right with three other riders !!! Spent rest of "race" on my own. too late to exit and restart so just did a 1 hour hard effort. Shame as was felt quite good tonight www.strava.com/activities/885494381/overview
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Post by ChrisD on Mar 3, 2017 22:07:11 GMT
Curious to know how long the full gas madness lasts for at the start of a typical race, and what sort of power level are you clocking up for that duration?
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Post by robertsims on Mar 3, 2017 22:56:49 GMT
On cat c races (my ftp is 261w and weigh 81kg so right at top of cat c border) I usually plan on holding 400W for first minute or so then usually 350-400w for next minute then 300-325ish for next couple of mins before all calms down. That gets me in lead group and not always as high as that but that's estimate. Look on my strava on 21 Feb race when came 2nd in KISS EUROPE race for pretty 'normal' race. KISS races are worse as most popular. I've done some races during the day and blasted off at 350-400W and got a lead in cat C and then sat up a little to wait for the group.
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Post by RobP on Mar 3, 2017 23:02:05 GMT
Curious to know how long the full gas madness lasts for at the start of a typical race, and what sort of power level are you clocking up for that duration? Depends on the race category ChrisD but in a cat C race i have to bring power up to about 400w in the 10 second countdown before flag drops and hold that for as long as I can (about another 1min 45 secs ) then settling down to about 275-300w (2.5 w/kg - 2.7w/kg) for race duration with short efforts of upto 500w at times. This analysis on my Tuesday race gives you an idea www.strava.com/activities/884121532/analysisopps double reply
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Post by robertsims on Mar 4, 2017 20:15:38 GMT
Will be doing the ladies 10mile TT at 8.30am tomorrow if anyone fancies it. They are friendly bunch of girls and quite happy for blokes to join as it's a TT and blokes get separate results list.
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Post by RobP on Mar 5, 2017 19:28:55 GMT
Missed the 10 mile TT but jumped on this morning and entered the WBR 1 Flat Lap Race (6.4 mi / 10.3 km), listed as the shortest race on Zwift After a 10 min warm up it was into the start pen for a mass start of all category at same time. Makes it hard to see exactly who you are competing against and had never done this series but just went all out for 17:51 it took to cover course and hoped for the best. www.strava.com/activities/888368639/overviewHeartrate analysis shows it was a full threshold effort www.strava.com/activities/888368639/heartrateChecked Zwift Power to find I got 2nd place www.zwiftpower.com/race.php?id=4150
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Post by robertsims on Mar 5, 2017 21:07:41 GMT
Missed the 10 mile TT but jumped on this morning and entered the WBR 1 Flat Lap Race (6.4 mi / 10.3 km), listed as the shortest race on Zwift After a 10 min warm up it was into the start pen for a mass start of all category at same time. Makes it hard to see exactly who you are competing against and had never done this series but just went all out for 17:51 it took to cover course and hoped for the best. www.strava.com/activities/888368639/overviewHeartrate analysis shows it was a full threshold effort www.strava.com/activities/888368639/heartrateChecked Zwift Power to find I got 2nd place www.zwiftpower.com/race.php?id=4150Nice work! I was in start pen for TT and with 8 secs to go....all my sensors died for some reason! Pain but ah well. Just did some threshold sessions instead
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Post by r0b1et on Mar 6, 2017 12:13:16 GMT
I think I'll do a race tomorrow... probably KISS, but might be an earlier one.
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Post by robertsims on Jul 23, 2017 16:48:35 GMT
People still zwifting much? I must admit, I'm still loving it. I enjoy races and find them more motivating than pretty much anything outside of the (real life) time trials I race in. I rarely get much chance to ride with family commitments (and that I actually want to spend time with kids on weekend not be out for hours!) so ability to fit in hour here and there throughout the week in the garage on zwift really helps, whilst commuting gets some real life miles in the legs. In real races certainly faster this year and new PBs, just shame not got to do many races due to family illnesses and roadworks disrupting club evening races.
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