Nov 04, 2020 at 03:33 PM
Taking my mind off the election for a minute...
Good times racing with @RichFreeman last night. We chatted a bit on Zwift at the gate to coordinate the start and pace. I set my stopwatch for 4.5mins after start and off we went. There must be latency via Zwift chat and Rich had a delayed start so we lost about a minute trying to get back together. I was just under threshold for the minute when he caught up and we started rolling hard at VO2max (for me anyway).
We traded approx 1min pulls, but I started fading pretty hard halfway through: Not properly warming up + stress eating at dinner = Near upchuck. Thankfully Rich took over for the lions share of the pulls for a while and I was able to ease off a bit to recover in the second half. By the time we got to the last 5km I felt pretty good and we started pushing it.
And of course Zwift wouldn't be Zwift without my power meter crapping out several times. You can see in my timeline on Strava where my power stopped registering. There was a point around 20 mins in where it went blank for like a solid 10 seconds. Rich had to ease up and let me catch back on. Lost some time there sadly.
Even as a 2 man team, KCC finished 5th overall, +2:55 behind the winners, but I'm not sure the results on Zwiftpower accounts for the delayed start for each team. Strava says we did it in 44:42 vs Zwiftpower's 49:38 which matches up to the Strava time plus our 4:30 delayed start... :shruggie:
One annoying thing with the Zwift TTT format is that the game "stickies" you to another team on the road for a draft. Game etiquette calls for the team being passed to ease off and the passers go full gas. Towards the second half, a team of 4 very slowly passed us and even though we eased off a bit, they also eased off after passing us so we caught up to them and had to fall back yet again to give them a big enough gap. I think that was a misstep on my part and should have motored past them with Rich.
In any case, not too shabby for our first time out. I'm hoping with another rider or few, KCC will have pretty strong TTT results for the next one in 2 wks.
Good times racing with @RichFreeman last night. We chatted a bit on Zwift at the gate to coordinate the start and pace. I set my stopwatch for 4.5mins after start and off we went. There must be latency via Zwift chat and Rich had a delayed start so we lost about a minute trying to get back together. I was just under threshold for the minute when he caught up and we started rolling hard at VO2max (for me anyway).
We traded approx 1min pulls, but I started fading pretty hard halfway through: Not properly warming up + stress eating at dinner = Near upchuck. Thankfully Rich took over for the lions share of the pulls for a while and I was able to ease off a bit to recover in the second half. By the time we got to the last 5km I felt pretty good and we started pushing it.
And of course Zwift wouldn't be Zwift without my power meter crapping out several times. You can see in my timeline on Strava where my power stopped registering. There was a point around 20 mins in where it went blank for like a solid 10 seconds. Rich had to ease up and let me catch back on. Lost some time there sadly.
Even as a 2 man team, KCC finished 5th overall, +2:55 behind the winners, but I'm not sure the results on Zwiftpower accounts for the delayed start for each team. Strava says we did it in 44:42 vs Zwiftpower's 49:38 which matches up to the Strava time plus our 4:30 delayed start... :shruggie:
One annoying thing with the Zwift TTT format is that the game "stickies" you to another team on the road for a draft. Game etiquette calls for the team being passed to ease off and the passers go full gas. Towards the second half, a team of 4 very slowly passed us and even though we eased off a bit, they also eased off after passing us so we caught up to them and had to fall back yet again to give them a big enough gap. I think that was a misstep on my part and should have motored past them with Rich.
In any case, not too shabby for our first time out. I'm hoping with another rider or few, KCC will have pretty strong TTT results for the next one in 2 wks.
