Missed the Sunday morning 3R 100km ride I wanted to do but probably for the best. I took it easy all week as had a touch of fluey illness that just wasn't shifting so was stacking up on sleep/rest in the hope not to get any worse. With wet & windy commutes I know I was risking it if I also had several hours of midweek damp garage air in me... Symptoms the same sunday but had cleared the head cold which had mostly left me with some phlegm causing a bit of an annoying cough I thought sod it. I wanted to keep some Fitness after what I'd gained doing the TdZ. If I got ill again, at least I'd lose fitness from that, not from the fear of it.
Dived into a 'UKZwifters 100km Sportive'. Absolute joke of a course for Doubledraft and a 'friendly group sportive' with only a few riders. Not the first time I've tried one of these rides and left disappointed on how they're ridde. Much like any UK Sportive then! 6-7 times up the Volcano climb just meant huge gaps between groups, constant splits and stringing out of any riders actually riding well together. Chatting a bit, good effort up the first time to retain a good group but knew I couldn't repeat it many times if the pace didn't ease. Group split soon after the descent so just rode the next lap as recovery before heading to a Tour of Innsbruck ride which I knew would be more fun as far more riders (although probably more of the same type of riders!).
Tour of Innsbruck // Stage 3. First half of this was awesome fun. Over 1000 riders, I settled into a good start but not too brutal after the previous riding. Settled into around 380th place. Legsnapper came and I felt good so put some wattage down to test the legs. They where really firing so I continued chasing a wheel. Really shouldn't have! Made up over 100 places, somewhere around 240th... Settled in recovering and telling myself I was silly. Dropped 20 places until a good group to surf wheels then Legsnapper came again. Paced it more this time, but still rode it too hard! Made up over 30 places. I was nearing the top 200 at this point but many of these groups where small and rolling 4+ turns so resting at much below 2.8w/kg was impossible, I really wasn't recovering! Legsnapper again, paced it much better and lost around 15 places this time. Closer to 300th but I kept easing to recover for the KOM. My numbers for Legsnapper on screen avg around 5w/kg first time, 4.5 second, 4.0 third. Really enjoyed it and felt I could continue those efforts a bit longer... But they did come back to bite me when the KOM came along...
KOM was brutal, I initially paced it well but found myself starting to blow up and really dropping cadence. Settled down and dropped a bunch of places to try and find some slower groups to pace with. Really struggled to find any, any time I settled into a rhythum I'd find myself slowly blowing up and having to ease again. In the end I got caught and dropped so many times (even by a couple of friends who'd started the climb 70 & 100 places behind me). I did have a bit of power left at the finish but nothing I could sustain for long, or anything I could use to increase my later efforts. Utterly destroyed. 4 minutes down on my PR.
Enjoyed it but really don't think I want to complete the rest of the Inns Tour (if there's catchup days) as there's only so much I can stick of that KOM. It hurts me. Half an hour of hell! You get the jersey from just completing a stage anyway, so why bother!
To be fair I don't tend to use BT anymore, too many issues with it and I've found ANT+ stable and far more reliable since changing dongle.
Dived into a 'UKZwifters 100km Sportive'. Absolute joke of a course for Doubledraft and a 'friendly group sportive' with only a few riders. Not the first time I've tried one of these rides and left disappointed on how they're ridde. Much like any UK Sportive then! 6-7 times up the Volcano climb just meant huge gaps between groups, constant splits and stringing out of any riders actually riding well together. Chatting a bit, good effort up the first time to retain a good group but knew I couldn't repeat it many times if the pace didn't ease. Group split soon after the descent so just rode the next lap as recovery before heading to a Tour of Innsbruck ride which I knew would be more fun as far more riders (although probably more of the same type of riders!).
Tour of Innsbruck // Stage 3. First half of this was awesome fun. Over 1000 riders, I settled into a good start but not too brutal after the previous riding. Settled into around 380th place. Legsnapper came and I felt good so put some wattage down to test the legs. They where really firing so I continued chasing a wheel. Really shouldn't have! Made up over 100 places, somewhere around 240th... Settled in recovering and telling myself I was silly. Dropped 20 places until a good group to surf wheels then Legsnapper came again. Paced it more this time, but still rode it too hard! Made up over 30 places. I was nearing the top 200 at this point but many of these groups where small and rolling 4+ turns so resting at much below 2.8w/kg was impossible, I really wasn't recovering! Legsnapper again, paced it much better and lost around 15 places this time. Closer to 300th but I kept easing to recover for the KOM. My numbers for Legsnapper on screen avg around 5w/kg first time, 4.5 second, 4.0 third. Really enjoyed it and felt I could continue those efforts a bit longer... But they did come back to bite me when the KOM came along...
KOM was brutal, I initially paced it well but found myself starting to blow up and really dropping cadence. Settled down and dropped a bunch of places to try and find some slower groups to pace with. Really struggled to find any, any time I settled into a rhythum I'd find myself slowly blowing up and having to ease again. In the end I got caught and dropped so many times (even by a couple of friends who'd started the climb 70 & 100 places behind me). I did have a bit of power left at the finish but nothing I could sustain for long, or anything I could use to increase my later efforts. Utterly destroyed. 4 minutes down on my PR.
Enjoyed it but really don't think I want to complete the rest of the Inns Tour (if there's catchup days) as there's only so much I can stick of that KOM. It hurts me. Half an hour of hell! You get the jersey from just completing a stage anyway, so why bother!
Weird, no updated drivers for BT?Yippee for Windows, upgraded my laptop to latest win 10 and have lost direct Bluetooth connection. No issue prior to upgrade and can't find a definite fix. So ordered an ant stick!
To be fair I don't tend to use BT anymore, too many issues with it and I've found ANT+ stable and far more reliable since changing dongle.
I'd have said the DCR one as I wasn't aware of the ZP one. Although I have delved into a 'hole' within ZP Race results where I found riders with more than 1 PWM recording I could overlay against their 'live' recording. Here's some from a ride of mine from the weekend -What is the best/easiest way to overlay two fit files of a recording to compare the power data overlay?
I imagine it’s a little fiddly to get the start points right bang on with each other & otherwise the whole lot will be slightly out.
Huge kudos, thats quite a week!Tour of Sufferlandria 2020... finished!
Either a bug, or a particular scenario due to being a light rider? Something to do with the 'game' mechanics which really dump your speed due to low weight, other riders carring more weight are not compromised the same?There is a bug on the Titans Grove descent after the KOM.
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