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Haha nice!

Thanks! Team did well and came in 1st! Now in 1st place in the league!

@@thecrohnscyclist oui, félicitations pas mal du tout 👍

Thanks! Legs gone at the end. No sprint left to give. And I saw him hit over 1000w and over 14w/kg. Just knew he was going to accelerate past me.

@ Jeesh. That’s a hard act for anyone to follow!

It is a really fun course to race! It's true! I definitely need to make sure I am really fresh when I do this course. Those tough climbs are.. tough. Looking forward to us riding one of these together sometime!

Yep! Definitely! I just noticed that zwiftpower.com dropped one of my efforts since it fell out of the 90 day range. So it shows me back down to A rider for me. Looks like I need to do another 20min effort to get that back up. Which I have been meaning to do one pretty soon. Should be some iTTs coming up soon for me to do one. Haha

@thecrohnscyclist yes I do not doubt a second of your motivation, I know that you will surpass yourself again & again to better climb in the RANKS score 🤗

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You see him try to take me out with that feather hahaha. I dont think i got one all ride either

Haha. Yep. I was hoping it would be a flatter route and us DIRT guys would do a timed attack and then try to TTT away from the field. But they only had climbing routes picked for this week. Oh well. Next time!

@joshvillen I was trying catch you. Haha. Started too slow though. Was crazy that I was only 9seconds slower from the time of my first climb but I did 43watts less than the 1st climb.... staying back and drafting helps so much on that climb. Wow.

@ 100% - it's very draftable - when I did the 8 am version of this, I drafted most of the way up - anywhere from 20W all the way up to 60+W of draft savings which adds up on a ~5 min climb . . . and I need all the help I can get 😅

​@ I did this route twice and I got 6 aero powerups across both attempts. . . and both times I got feather at the end of the 2nd climb at the banner 🤣 For this ride though, I'm surprised Josiah had anything left after that 1st KOM . . . that solid block of red all the way up. . . and then he gets to the crest and decides to keep the power down another 20 seconds to get the 5 min PB. I'm dead if I try to follow that and mentally devastated when he keeps going at the crest 😅

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Thanks! That's what I had my eyes glued on while doing that effort. That and the time to know when I was getting close to 5 minutes. Was so tough

It’s just how the TdZ group rides work. The A B C cat is just the route selection, it’s not a race.

For TdZ, A, B, C just indicate length of route, Short, Standard, Long. It's a mass start, non-category group ride - there's usually a race at the front but it's not formally constructed or recognized as one.

Yep! What they said ☝️

You crushed that second climb too. Nice! DIRT dominated that race. Was super fun!

Thanks. Really just stuck in the draft of that guy Shaun who is incredibly strong and he just pulled us all the way to the finish line.

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I'm decent. I don't have a high top end speed since I am so light. But I can accelerate quickly.

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Right! A few times I wasn't quite sure if I'd make it back on. Group was small enough though and not everyone would drive the pace to keep it high.

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Thanks! Very rare I hit that number. Maybe once very few weeks

Thanks! I can do about 2 sprints like that a week. Haha

I was too. They really held back until the last minute or so of the Itza KOM. Then they went hard and I barely caught on. Fun race though

Haha. He sure makes the races interesting. Thanks!

Haha. Thanks

You can get it too. Haha. In the game and IRL. I want to order one IRL eventually.

@@thecrohnscyclist ahahaha i mean the one you were wearing IRL. I have a similar one (the official team USA skinsuit i got at a bargain on a pro team surplus site) but it doesn't have enough stars and stipes imo.

Ahh. Haha. Nice! Yeah my wife got this for me for Christmas so I'm not sure where she bought it. But I do like it a lot too!

Definitely need to!

@@thecrohnscyclist You need a COACH ...

I know! He's a lot stronger than I am. I can't outsprint him at all. Wanted to try to at least catch the other guy. But got tired. Haha.

Haha. I tried....

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Definitely super tough! With that many guys starting, it was just going to be fast paced the whole time. Wow. Good luck for you too!

So true. And other teams would protect their sprinters and start lead out trains for them to bring any breakaway back. Was worth a try since I know a lot of those guys will always outsprint me.

Yep. Need to remind myself how hard breakaways are. Mentally prepare. Since we can definitely do a breakaway against a field of verified elite pro zwifters.... lol. Worth a try though.

@@thecrohnscyclist What other choice do we have hahahahaha

Yeah. Outsprinting them isn't an option either. Looks like our options are limited

Knew I could count on you for a little help! 😉😉 Jon said we'd take the second climb slower at around 6 w/kg. So I started up it at just under 6 w/kg. Then saw he was doing 7w/kg on the front with the rest doing 6.5 w/kg in his draft. Welp. That made me get a 3-4s gap off the back. Was going to try to dig deep and do a hard 7 w/kg push right before the bridge. But might not have had the legs for it anyway. Was still a good time for all of us!

@@thecrohnscyclist YES!, Jon always does that. 3rd Doppio with only 4 A+ riders against two teams fully stacked with 8 A+ riders. We definitely did well. We lost 10seconds each time on the bypass, such a brutal segment

Thanks! I actually enjoyed that quite a bit. I can see how it can be demoralizing to other guys if they see 4-5 DIRT Jersey guys who are helping cover moves and saving their good sprinters for the finish. Then doing a lead out train so others can't attack. Really fun to do!

Haha. Yep

Haha. All good. It's what teammates do. Even though I didn't think I was picking up any slack. Your pulls were super strong!

It was! Hope you're ready for tomorrow morning! Going to be a fun one!

Was a great race to suffer together. Haha. Felt like I paced that course the best I have ever done before. Actually still had some power after the Alp climb.

I literally thought the same thing. I had no clue it was included until the last 5 minutes when I realized the course was ending but we still have 1.5 miles left in the race. Then I realized it would take us back up the ZWIFT KOM again. I was so salty. Haha.

Yes. Always so tough to try to maintain good speed doing those. But was able to do them well to catch back up! Very happy about that.

Yep! That has happened to me before and I was afraid of that. Going down the Alp and resting then the legs just won't hold power after that rest from the descent. But today I was still able to hold the same power after the descent that I was going up the Alp. So definitely think I was pacing myself well!

Haha. Nice! This one hurt a lot. Felt like I paced it well. Still hurt so much. Totally got dropped on the radio tower KOM. Had to try to get myself back in the group by descending as best I could.

@@thecrohnscyclist IMHO your pacing was perfect. I am watching as I type but you got that final climb where win or not. I just wonder if the bike/wheel combo can be the difference maker. Confusing when rider goes supertuck. Also maybe me but the asian bot pisses me off, 39 seconds and gaining as we start the hill. Zwift should be able to just get them off the screen during the race.

Definitely bike choice and wheels would help a lot. But FRR has everyone fixed on one of the heaviest bikes. If I could have used the lightest bike and then lightest wheels, I would have saved around 1 and a half minutes. I still could have used the lightest wheels. But it would have saved me only about 20 seconds. And then if I used the fastest disc wheels on the descent, I would have saved 15 seconds. So only 5 second difference. Figured it wasn't worth switching since it takes me about 8-10 seconds to switch. And then another 8-10 seconds to switch back once I got to the top.

Haha. Yeah I might try to start creating my own thumbnails. Make it interesting looking.

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Thanks! Yeah I wanted to quit like 5 times in 2 seconds right at the end trying to hold their wheels! It hurt a lot! One more stage to go! Going to be so much suffering!

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@thecrohnscyclist non non !!! Tu a la capacité de faire mieux que cela c'est certains... crois moi mon expériences... je roule maintenant depuis 35ans ...

It was nice with us staying so well organized in the pace line. Imagine what we could do with a good team of 8! And all with steering! Maybe next time

For sure! Definitely would help! Team relentless will usually always have at least 4 teammates in each race. Today they had like 6 or 7. So definitely making it hard. Haha

Nice! I feel we are in the same boat. If I try to do an all out sprint, I still get beat by the big sprinters by a lot. So I don't try to sprint. But I still have to semi sprint each time just to stay with the group. I would rather try to get in a breakaway and just do steady power rather than all this sprinting then easing off then sprinting etc. Same to you! Good luck on the rest of the stages! Rooting for you!