Recover and wait for the final uphill, not too hard from the bottom, sitting front 5. One guy takes a flyer but I lean on the others to try and close it down more while riding about 5-6w. Get to about 200 and start to sprint, get a couple of places, close on the line but I got a silver with the flyer taking the win, my best result so far this year.
Good numbers buddy, maybe it's just me but the times you talked about these Volcano races and the 'uphill' I always thought you meant the
proper volcano climb, not the little ramp!



with Zwift, we are actually just all beta testing continuously for them and paying to do so.....
Feels like it every time doesn't it.
At least the fence is back to zap the fliers in group rides... They removed it because they screwed it up, so what are the chances it comes back even more broken?!

@Roady Couple more short ERG workouts for you to think about trying, both 20mins and 29TSS,
https://whatsonzwift.com/workouts/less-than-30-minutes-to-burn/knife-edge and
https://whatsonzwift.com/workouts/less-than-30-minutes-to-burn/atovers
Both a bit like a short 13min TT, personally I found Knife Edge a bit tougher, with the longer z5/6 mini-blocks.
Good shouts thanks.
Did quite a sporadic 2 hours on sunday morning when the other half (+1/2) suddenly announced they where going to Bristol IKEA. Missed any of the usual groups I'd do endurance with but wanted some intensity anyway.
A totally unplanned last minute dive into a 70km hilly race was probably not the best... Barely made 25km before getting dropped! Brutal pace on a brutal course, my legs just popped at the base of the KOM after some big efforts on S&S to stay in the group -
https://www.strava.com/activities/5266399245
Spun the legs out a bit then jumped into a sprint race, intending to use as a tempo spin around something flat and legs actually felt pretty good so even sprinted for the 'win' from the group:
https://www.strava.com/activities/5266679300
Dropped back to something I thought would be more endurance (expecting 2w/kg) and ended up helping sweep for a ride with a massive group doing 2.5-2.8w/kg, needless to say those closes hurt! Threw in the towel after half an hour, if I'd realised the group pace before joining I'd have stuck in the group and not been sweeping/chasing! Oh well...
https://www.strava.com/activities/5267064501
I don't believe 5 minutes is sufficient warm up before going that hard.
They're really not, I'm quite bad at not giving myself enough time for a warmup but even then I'll have close to 10 minutes...
Thanks
@Roady, I took a punt on that freehub before you replied and all installed and working smoothly.

Welcome back!
I've not been anywhere but thanks!
Finally got my Neo settled/sorted, after buying the freehub ratchet tool, bearing and a 'ReAxle'. It kinda needed those parts anyway but think the main vibration and noise I was seeing/feeling/hearing came from the inboard Neo disk bearing (a large one) not having an o-ring behind it, so the inner race rotating on the spindle. I bodged one in there (not quite the right size) as it's made a massive difference. Ordered some the right size (pack of 10) so should be sorted for anything in future (and even got an extra spare outboard disk bearing when required).
But £300 on an old Neo OG and then ~£120 on tools & parts isn't too bad really. Lots of time spent but happy to do that to save £500+! Certainly now I've learnt so much about the internals of them (and the Flux before) I can fix almost anything, do good maintenance and have the tools. Anyone wants any help with theirs just shout!
I’d strongly suggest it’s not my hardware...!?
More troubleshooting. I have found the folllowing windows error “the application has been blocked from accessing the graphics hardware”
So many problems mate, gutted you've still not got it stable! Although that sounds like something left over from an old install, or maybe not installed under an Admin account on the PC? Track down the exe that's actually triggering that and it may help you decide which needs a reinstall, probably worth a good removal of too... If that's Nvidia triggered one of the driver cleaner utils and then check it's all gone (mainly for the exe with the permission error)???
When I get around to sorting a PC (lets face it the price on cards at the moment it'll be a while) I'm dreading this. My 6-7 year old crappy laptop is pretty rock solid!

