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About as much sense as a yap-dog chasing after passing trucks, hopelessly trying to nip at their tyres. But still, if it gets one from A to B.

I can't interpret that yet, but am guessing

Promotion Special Measurement perhaps

It's such a toss-up as to what group we find ourselves in. I do like that we're a great scrum all together so riders tend to settle out by their verve, rather than supposed cat. Though I do wonder about so many younguns joining our over-70s cat. Chasing them could bring on excessive efforts as we assume we've competing with some peer. In the TdF (I mean VLF), I was riding with a Californian who was near me, though a little younger. After a big hard stage (that I think ended up Ventoux), he died that night. I hope that I played no part in provoking that. All very well saying that we should back off and solo when it feels too difficult, but chasing someone that we take as a peer and equal can get us a bit carried away.

Any clues about how I get this 5+ second lag? And what I can do to eliminate or minimise it?

After some useful interaction with network professionals, it seems this is not connected to ping. My ping here is 21.0ms, jitter 22.1ms. Ping to California is down to the speed of light through fibre optic cable. From here, obviously a lot slower than for this in the west of America. Zwift's ping minimum requirements have to be bogus/misguided, unless they are saying that their platform is only viable for racing if living not far from their servers. I'd excluding 98% of the world. On one level, I think not, but then again Zwift is really just a variant of Peloton (without the shouty "You can do it" ... "You smashed it") nonsense. I mainlining on anything to take revenue, and us users and race organisers have repurposed the platform, as best we can, to use it for racing. Zwift also use paid pro teams to do pseudo racing of sorts, as adverting and bling. Meanwhile they could hardly do less to support quality racing. They don't need to, we're self motivated and make do with whatever we can find. The big money is in the masses, not us 1% outliers. Besides the Zwift platform, the basic games engine that they are using, cannot represent spatial information anywhere near accurately enough to be race-worthy. But fine for jolly chi-chat group rides and workouts. We Zwifters (meaning the masses, have yet to make the transition to far more race-viable platforms like RGT, IndieVelo, MyWhoosh. And tumble weed, plus early phase development, aren't much of a turn-on. So for those like me with 6 second lag, there's nothing for it but to grin and live with the significant advantage that American racers have. But despite America being economically and culturally far behind Europe, in everything they always put themselves first. It is technically easily for Zwift f any Stateside servers to made a level playing field, by giving every rider a differential delay such that. everyone has the same delay. But racing isn't Zwift's bag. Their focus is always money and hence the undemanding masses.

20w difference doesn't seem that much. I thought that that was the regulation way to ride in our virtual frolics. 5 secs before the start, go flat out ... hold on for as long as you can, then as legs give out, fade back from the front racers. Now the job is to hope to hitch up with some clump of riders. By the end, all matches have been burned, so expect to be dropped by everyone nearby. At that point you see all the sandbaggers, who were just cruising to that point, light their afterburners and fly away. My ambition at the end is only to not be quite the last. That occasionally happens, but only occasionally (probably because those taking it easy were only using the race to warm up for another race where they show their real strength).

Thanks, but that's a tad freaky. That never happens to me. Not my scene - winning anything.

As usual, chasing the oldies. They run me ragged over flats.

Head down on the climb (I thought that I was dropped and legs kaput), so I missed everything (including that cuppa).

Would a towrope do. I'll trail one when there's some decent up gradients. But I could do with similar by return on flat courses which flay me. Especially the descents.

Of course, you could join me in my science driven (for health reasons), only-veg diet. So shrink, as I did, by that 10kg. But be warned, some of those kg will be muscle.

Is that you John, or a ghost from 1950s Luxembourg.

And if the former: with 6 more years, I'll be 5 min further back.

The clue is in the result sheet!! The latter became a hermit in the forests with no electricity, either for heating or for warm water.... or for linking to Zwift.@@halwye

I was completely kippered by the end. And several minutes slower than earlier PBs.

Thanks. Now if I can get this knee to calm down, I'll be on the hunt, and hope to shave a couple of minutes off that course time. Don't laugh.

Incidentally, I couldn't believe that what Urs did. He was helping me, and did so really successfully. Never had that before, like that. I don't remember ever coming across him before. Really unusual sportsmanship (or perhaps charity), and particularly relished. I must try harder to copy his example.

You too. A bit worn after yesterday's hard race. You totally crushed my effort.

Yes, the tour was good. Unfortunately my turbo died for race 3, so I missed that stage. A pity there are no catchup events.

I'd also quite like to see age-categorised results. The regular and GC results were up super quickly, which was unusually good.

I wish. I don't know what happened there. A senior moment perhaps. I really must learn to make a better job of my "sprint" finishes. The last several, indeed all this year have been simply pathetically hopeless. Front to off the back every time. There must be a way.

Actually I'd feel better, I suspect, if I went early and was run down by the storming mob.

I thought that I was quite hopelessly pathetic. On reflection doing my utterly puny best to go faster (can't call it any sort of sprint) through the segs. Worthless to the point of being embarrassingly inappropriate. Hopelessly out of touch with what the race is actually about. I quickly found myself amongst riders doing a recovery ride for one point, but I was taking them as competition. Small wonder they were so slow. And not surprising that I managed to get in front of then, there were still pottering through segs at 2w/kg.

I'm unfamiliar with any sort of print racing and presume rather unsuited to it. But I now assume that I should have burned half my box of matches just to try to keep up with the main group. But I was so bloody cold. Even by the end of the race I was super cold and stiff despite wearing clothing and no fans. I'd rather like to teleport to somewhere scorching hot and dry in Namibia. Give it a few months to thaw and dry my bones out.

Now we hear how RGT does not takes rider size into account for wind resistance. Z must be doing that too. OK excuses don't wash - my legs are just dilapidated.

Tougher race in FUN TTT this evening.

I need some insights/coaching for how to make something of sprint races. As you'll have seen, in this race I went from front of the group to last. Not very rewarding.

I found the race up till the sprint, not very difficult.

Looked a hard one for sprinters to access where to start their big effort.

I've yet to view your race, I was too zonked in mine though I had it on. You had me worried at the end, the noise on Twitch sounded fatal for something.

I need rig up a way to see you racing ahead, so act as a race long motivation. It is inspiring to see a big engine at work.

Rather easy to run over him.

@@halwye 😂😂🙈

Sorry about that, I didn't notice our getting separated. I had meant to do negative splits (take the 2nd half faster), but somehow forgot about that along the way. Thought that you rode really well given the amount of work that you had to do. You nailed Snorre. We should do more of these so get more used to them. I was listening while Anne watched your Twitch, though I couldn't make sense of everything.

@@halwye I was very happy I could stay with you that long, you were a really big help. But at a certain point I just had to ride my own race, I would have blown up completely otherwise.

I was a bit peeved at the top. I kept some oomph in reserve in case I needed to cope with you sprinting up behind me. And there was Helena coming instead. Right, I'm ready for you, thought I. And blow me down, my HR decided to go potty, which upset Anne. So I had to back off. Oh well, I'm so out of the league rankings anyway. Still, the knee was encouraging, even better today.

@@halwye I watched Helena catch you on the line, she is a very good climber. I tried to stay with her and Joni after you dropped me, but didn't stand a chance. I think you did really well yesterday.

@@MaartenOverweg 10 to 20 minutes slower than earlier times up the alp. It's wildest guesswork as to where one should be on this decay curve. I wonder, if I practiced it a bit, if I could find what sort of power I could sensible sustain for an hour. And whether get under the hour again. But doing that would be to rather isolate myself - make a private torture chamber. As my priorities are health first, then fun, perhaps I should let such thoughts drift out of mind forever. So accept that legs have become more mid cat-C, and see what that equates to.

I'm not sure what you mean by "size up". My issue with shoes is that the tendons in the front of my ankle (the crook/front of my foot) take a a shortcut from shin to foot top, so most shoes bind there badly. I was mainly hunting for shoes that didn't bind there, or I could modify with a knife so they don't. Just my luck, most aren't just tight there, but have a strap or boa right there. I got these Lakes and am still using them, though I can't do them up only loosely. Too much bare foot running in my younger life might be the cause.

The Fizik Tempo were particularly bad fit for me. Narrow too. As are some of their saddles.

@@halwye I've noticed that with new road shoes, can't tighten top like with my old RO75's.

@@halwye Mine fit but sole has a midfoot arch that feels different, but no issues with them so far.

Got size 44 Tempo, both the Shimano RC1 and Carnac Sortie are 45's.

Thanks Maarten. Yes I was really out of it for this race. Unfortunate as the course suited me better than most in this winter league. I still haven't much sense of what could be awry in me. Even find I've come back to those vaccinations, but that only because I haven't a clue what else. At least that many other possible factors. I think I'd better take it easy for a bit, hope to bounce back.

Your race looked amazing. Fantastic climbing. Indeed, on that first time up, I got the impression not that you are a pure climber, but climbing seems a part of your armoury. On my todo list is hunting out your stream (hope there is one) so I can see your finish. I imagine pretty tired by the sprint, but I've have bet that you'd win that. Overall a fantastic result. Bravo.

@@halwye I really hope you start to feel better soon. I've been under the weather for a couple days now too, but for some reason I didn't impact me in the race itself. I've just been so tired every day. No idea what it is.

@@halwye Thank you very much! I think the climb yesterday is more of a long sprint instead of an actual climb. I can push highish watts for a minute or 2, so this suited me. I did stream, so on Twitch you can see the sprint as well.

@@MaartenOverweg What's your Twitch channel called? Great result, well done.

From my perspective your sprint was nothing short of epic.

As usual I was caught between trying to help you on the climb and keep in touch with what was going on ahead. I thought your climbing was stonking strong. The thing that puzzled me was your gentle finish.

@@halwye I gave it my all on that climb for sure. I was in the red and orange pretty much the whole race so really didn't have much left at the end.

Legs hadn't got it at the very top. But Anne says that's to be expected as most were young enough to be my children or grandchildren.The climbing bike was a mistake (I took a the captain's suggestion as a recommendation, but even if that works for him I don't think the formula works for all (I'll stick with my own council in future)). I got cooked trying and failing to keep up on the flats. Percy was amazing, if you see his video. He's in another world altogether. ua-cam.com/video/y624NZfnhpM/v-deo.html. Overall, it felt like racing in cat-B. Those ahead were on a completely different level. But we got through OK. Zilch points so right down the rankings, so a bit of a thrashing for not very much. My question is whether legs can recover in time to get round the WKG Winter League.

I fear that ir'd be a dream to see you after the first bend on most courses. Somehow I seem to have misplaced most of my watts. Getting skinnier every day as muscle disappears (I saw under 63kd the other day). No idea what's robbing me there or why. I'd never have been able to compete with your might finish surges. They are nothing short of awesome. Might I have a chance on a long steep climb. I'd banking on that. Bring on the epic radio tower.

BTW Who is organising the league this winter. If it's me, I may have a rebellion on my hands.

@@halwye Hahaha, we should at least try to get you in the league organisation committee. I think this year it will be Martijn and Marcus doing it, with help from the scoring table team.

@@MaartenOverweg That's asking for trouble. I'd be blamed for every uphill gradient. Especially the new 3285m monster climb that Marcus has in mind. BTW that's the one where I will get sufficient lead in order to be able to survive to the end without you catching me (regardless of you getting any help). This regardless of Z's idiotic downhill algorithm that massively accelerates the heavies and brakes the featherweights. No point looking at Pidcock as an example of a real world descender, Z is just a game. ((I must scope out your more recent cycling prowess, see if there are any chinks in your bloodthirsty racing armour)).