If anything you may find your FTP a little higher, Zwift having a fairly 'rolling' course (even on flat locales) will tend to lower your average power in a race scenario even solo as you'll be pushing hard on the flats and climbs (threshold) before probably easing on the slight drops to get some respite. With a group the draft effect means you get a tow various places so ride easier, yet you'll hit the sprints and climbs higher than FTP.
Good work, keep it up! You're doing well if you're racing already and able to stick with the D's on the reverse Watopia hilly course (assuming you meant the KISS race?). See you in B soon!Really good bit of kit so far, done a little test run then a race, kept with the D''s for two laps then had to pull the pinand a 30mile ride on Sunday, all on zwift of course.
Blooming sweaty biking inside though. Looking forward to more races and group rides.
Lol I've not checked mine recently but I'm fairly sure I've got it set higher than 50% to not soften big wattage changes... Now I'm not doing intervals so much and just racing I should reduce it.
Hi bud, did join on you but with very little time before the race so not sure you noticed! Tough one last night, C seemed really quick and well organised! 200 riders across all CAT's made it quite a busy one!
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Didn't spot you in the race but I did set off hard in the B's. I ended up in the second group on the road, sticking with them for two laps but every time we hit the longer climb things splintered. Very little team work as most of them where riding easy @3-3.5w/kg for most of it so I found myself off the front/leading/towing a number of times on the flat. Come the climb they're all 4w/kg and I either had to bounce off the front before it or find myself doing 4.5-5w/kg just to keep with them! It was brutal but I could see where things where going - come the start of lap 3 riders where everywhere and I could see the large front CAT C group working well closing us down.
Within half a lap we where caught so I sat in and rolled a few turns, most of the group doing 3.5w/kg so it was easy to see how they'd caught so many of B. They where climbing at 4w/kg+ again comparable to the B I'd ridden with, really too hard for C. The last half lap things started to heat up and I found myself off the front with another of the B's I'd ridden with, I kept the pace up and went long the last 2 miles as I could see some of the B's who'd stayed away gradually getting reeled in but not quick enough to catch before the end with the group. I finished strong, 10s behind 3 of them in 37th place. Pretty low down for me, I was around 3-4 minutes slower than riders I've ridden with before. CAT C caught all of B up to 34th place (71 riders in B), but then 11 of those leading C riders in the big group got DQ (out of 77 C riders) due to being over CAT C limits...!
