Not as boring as richmond! That one is just snooze fest to me. At least with London you can mix it up a bit more if you choose.
Yeah but Richmond is only on the schedule like one or two days a month so invariably I only ride it every couple of months. London seems to come up far too regularly, like once a week or more?! The days I ride also tend to only be Tuesday, Thursday and the weekend. Think Richmond is usually a monday and London tues & weds or weds & thurs?
(saw you roadie, but no drafting so hard to bunch!) no WiFi in my shed either to chat.
Haha no worries, when joining before a race I'll tend to join on one of my friends riding to mix up starting locations a bit, sometimes even riding with them for a few minutes if they're doing the kinda pace I can warm up at. Invariably as I'm always cutting things fine (or stupidly early) it's only for <5 minutes before I'm off to the race start pen. I do some high cadence stuff then to really get my legs going, so generally join on doing power and lowish cadence.
New Road to Ruin extension to Watopia today... I'm going to give it a whirl later this evening. Anyone else?
It's ace! A really good addition, the scenery and concept work well but looking at my
exploratory ride on saturday the gradient isn't quite steep enough at any point (
except maybe the bridge ramp) to really cause any interest/excitement in races. With the change in scenery I'm quite looking forward to racing on it tbh (being good on the flats)!
KISS B on tuesday. Fantastic race, but really busy with nearly 300 riders, 100 of which where in B!
https://www.strava.com/activities/1245271562
https://www.zwiftpower.com/race.php?id=13766
Hard starting effort but had to ease up as I was flying off the front too far, so I easily made the front group with around 40-50 riders, far too many really for a flat race! Teamed up with a local friend (David Bryan) and another guy I've ridden with before to try and split things up a number of times but totally failed. Found myself able to ride off the front fairly 'easily' (4.8w/kg seemed the magic number) and I was riding well but couldn't make more than 10-12s gap for any real period of time. Should've maybe sat in more as coming into the final lap things started to break up, I was still bouncing around but decided not to sprint and just roll in with the guys I'd ridden with. We finished 25th-30th, with me saving legs for the commute in the morning. Only 6 seconds behind the winner (results yet to be finalised), that's how big a group it was. Good strong ride and just the workout I needed, power levels looking good (around FTP 275-ish) which I felt I've been well below the last couple of months.
On saturday I did
TeamZF 'Hammertime'. A lead ride I've done a few times before, good workout, basically stick near leader (doing around 2.5w/kg) and then he'll call sprints (usually the 2 sprint segments) from difference distances then you ease up until regrouping. Bit of a sprint test really with some solid tempo/core work between them, two sprints a lap and more of a C kinda event so I usually find myself leading out, calling gaps and helping control the front riders some.
ZF entered me as the only 'B' so I 'won' luls. Explored the Jungle afterwards with a couple I'd raced with. 41 miles on saturday was good going and really enjoyed it. 95 miles for the week. 70 of it on Zwift, BOOM!
Annoyed me so much I got off after 15 mins and had a huff. Will have to go back to flatter races.
Tuesdays race was a flat one!
More than happy to ride with you/lead you out if I happen to be in the same race mate. Next time message me and I'll drop back (if up the road) and ride with you!
