Hahaha, you *could*!
Jumped into another KISS B ride last night. Came 31st B, AGAIN!
But happy with the result as my legs were not feeling that fresh after tuesdays. Power levels actually came out higher than Tuesdays, but was a much flatter course (and not 'skewed' by aero tucking!
https://www.zwiftpower.com/race.php?id=4913
https://www.strava.com/activities/911778548
Practised my start, hitting 400W before the countdown and nailed it,
flew off the front and was the first rider up the road for the first few hundred yards! That's the way to do it! Had to consciously back off to <4w/kg to get reeled back in, sticking with the front group (A) for a while, but soon started to tire (holding 4+ w/kg just to stay in the bunch!),
my ANT+ dropped out to my Trainer so dropped back to the next (B) group. Surprised how good my legs were feeling...
This group had around 20 riders pushing mostly 3.5w/kg so was quite frantic, after a few miles I kept at the sharp end as things were starting to thin out with several riders around the front doing turns causing splits (
inc me!). Around 6 of us soon 10s+ ahead of the rest, around the same time (laps 2 & 3) some of the flying A's came past lapping us, we got a couple of pulls from them and we'd increased the gap to 30s. Around the half way point our little group (of 5-6) started to pick up riders dropping back, one of which stuck with us (Elias). The group behind started to close the gap to us (getting within 5s at one point)! We had settled down to ~3w/kg so needed to up our game!
Gave the couple of guys some encouragement with me and Paul Mason (who I've ridden with a couple of times before) doing some long 4w/kg turns on the front. We lost a couple of riders but were closing down some stuck between us and the front group, passing 4-5 of them. When we had opened up a 20s+ gap over the chasers & picked off all but 1 of the riders between the two groups (the first group being 30s up the road) we took stock. We were left with 4 of us riding well together, so it looked like it was going to end in a sprint. As we entered the last lap Elias pulled away from the rest of us, pulling out a 8-10s gap. I said I'd lead Paul out, doing a big
1 mile pull and we reeled him back in, I eased up but Paul had popped at that point! Elias went for a long sprint pulling away and it was up to us to follow, I tried but hadn't got the legs to catch the other rider, Dodsworth, barely keeping his wheel. He then nailed me in the sprint,
my kick barely hitting 400W. Great ride/race and a good result considering. My stamina seems to be improving, I'm able to hold ~280-300W even when 'tired' and feeling empty after doing some big turns.
Wouldn't hurt to see if yours is as useless with TrainerRoad as mine
No ERG over BT and then ANT+ will periodically forget during recovery valleys and not come up to power after.
Works fine in manual resistance mode and equally works flawlessly with Zwift both in free-ride and also workout mode, albeit quite a way off my P1's but consistent nevertheless.
I'll have a look on Sunday if I don't head out in the sunshine...!
THE FLUX HAS ARRIVED. It's hiding in my car...
Hahaaha, goodluck!
Weathers not looking great till Sunday so might have to turbo again till then.
or run it in workout mode and manually lower the resistance?...
