If you want tour files “juicing” just fling me a PM and I’ll do them for you.
33 min 10km? No problems.
54 min 40km bike? Yup. Dimples.
(Although doing on Rouvy May scupper this…best just to attach a drill to your cranks 
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Not exactly Europe Friendly. Rouvy race is either 1720 Sat or 1720 Sunday - so 1 hour on bike until 1820, then a break before a run… I’m not going to finish before 9pm, Bollox. Hope they add some more times
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I’m not that sort of person… and I have worked out how to do it myself, purely for research purposes. Not modified the FIT file, but works on GPX and TCX files
I am joking - it’s easy to tell a fake juiced file…mine are a little better than that 
A drill that has the same variable cadence as your own of course…
Oh I wasnt planning to join the pros on their time, just which course we had to use in this category, although that might be fun. 17:20-18:30 in the garage…could get the run in before dinner is served.
I just did the arizona 5150 course in race mode in 1h05 while I was doing a TR workout but avg 210W, although that was with my power pedals rather than the zumo.
Some of us can run faster than that without the juicing Only messing around of course, but completely agree that the whole IM VR situation seems too open to cheating.
Not everyone will be doing it intentionally, but powermeters/turbos are so prone to inaccurate calibration before we even get into weight doping or file alterations. Seems crazy to me that 70.3 WC spots are going to be open to some through VR racing, but I guess you have to milk that cash cow somehow
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Yeah, I’m only messing!
You’d hope that people are honest and that only the “normal” amount of people cheat?
I’ve no interest in the VR series, but I wouldn’t take part and cheat just to ruin it for other and prove a point “oh, look, I can cheat and get away with it!” Kind of thing.
Hopefully, people use it as a nice challenge for these times we’re currently enduring.
Tested out yesterday and the course looks okay but Im losing 10W using the Zumo so Im going to try PML (Power Meter Link, not Pissing Myself Laughing) to get my P1S numbers into the game. Nothing new on race day eh? But this is really prep for my big effort next weekend in place of the Eastbourne Tri.
Targets; bike <1h10, 10k run <55
Im just jogging the 3k first leg so it doesnt affect my bike/run split too much. Looks likenits gonna rain all afternoon, I just hope its not torrential like yesterday! 
Good luck @Matthew_Spooner
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good luck @joex
Did 3km this morning in 11:30, just did bike in 53mins, break for an hour then 10km of pain
Currently standing in pool of sweat
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Pro men race in an hour, so my position won’t remain for long
Pulled something hard and painful 2km into the run - wasnt even 5k pace, missed start, limping home in the rain
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First 20km in 29:44 plus the ten minutes late I started 
Not bad with 1.5 legs.
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59:28, moving time, pretty pleased with that, but Ill never know what Id have run off the bike. . Im limping off to the sofa now.
It was good fun once I was confident I could ride, made my way from last 86th to 65th I think.
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11:33 3k run
53:18 40k bike
41:17 10k run
Currently 40th overall and 5th in AG
I’m not terribly good at OD, so very pleased with result
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Very good my friend.
For an ostensibly very flat course I found tiny changes really affecting the resistance. Perhaps Im just new to Rouvy and havinfg the Zumo controllable but I could definitely feel it and see significant watt difference between +0.1% and -0.1%, and I had to drop two cogs for anything around 1%. Which seems more sensitive than the real world.
I enjoyed the bike course. Rouvy certainly has much more variation than Strava… Descents feel more like descents and climbs feel harder on Rouvy
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I saw Joe Gambles came in at 55mins and change, cant see what his average w/kg was though - four minutes sounds like something I could work up to gaining, but then Im used to long course where minutes dont mean as much. I was only 3.2w/kg for the course, near my current theoretical max but I swear a third fan to cool me down and a healthy right leg…
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Joe Gambles was at 4.5 w/kg
Because the course was so flat, I think that it favoured heavier riders: of the people who are faster than me, only one had higher w/kg
The speed algorythm in Rouvy seems to favour absolute power over weight more than Zwift. Overall, I felt that it was a pretty accurate reflection of my real riding. My average speed was 45kph, last week I did a 30k TT at 44kph average and slightly less power
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Mr Costa on the podium 
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