Is there such a place as virtual Blackpool 
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Ha, you should as I suggested it at our club 
sort of a commission fee.
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eBlackpool, even more trashy than the real thing
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I did chuckle at the concept of a biological passport! I know its effectively similar to what zwiftpower do, but the naming did make me laugh in terms of how official they’re teying to make it sound.
In all honesty, most of what they’re now suggesting was how I thought it would have been from the start. When VR was announced in collaboration with Rouvy, I never thought that’d just be for the pro challenges
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Good spot, yeah I think I said it would go to rouvy only and outdoor runs, but that just moves it from totally random times to cheatable. Its a step forward though.
Continuous times is an interesting one which is likely to see participation fall, including me,
Rouvy seems particularly slow as a simulation though. The course record holder was about half an hour slower and lost to Lange compared to real life.
IMJ Kicking off as usual
I am not doing IMVR at the moment, however, I did a Zwift Race on Saturday (where I lost power after 96km). My average speed for the first 90km was 45.2kph, sub 2hr bike leg. I was not cheating, my weight was accurate and I was using my Assioma Power meter, so power was genuine. I am more than capable of a sub 1h30m HM, and sub 20m 5k, so could easily record a 3h45 - 4h IMVR time without cheating
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Id be interested what your relative times are on Rouvy, Ive come to the position that Zwift basic TT bike is closer to reality than other options.
Another point is that for me anyway a 5k run 90k bike 21.1k run is harder than a 70.3…give me the swim over a 5k anyday!
Agreed, but in the current format they don’t need to be concurrent, so do 5k run Friday, bike Saturday and 21k Sunday
Not tried Rouvy. However, for comparitive purposes, I find that over a hour ride on Zwift on Specialized Shiv, I am slightly faster than riding an hour on my TT bike outdoors, but the difference is less than 1 minute
One of the other changes is that all activities are completed within a 12hr window
That’s going to be tricky with some of the lockdown rules. 5km round the garden, turbo then 21km outdoors or turbo across midnight so your runs are different days? 
Always a tailwind in Watopia
IMJ kicking off why; because of the more stringent ‘rules’?
Being forced to use rouvy and a smart trainer from a brief look
I assume a PM is okay? Otherwise it’s a silly rule.
I didn’t look tbh
But yes pm would make sense
People moaning that Rouvy is not compatible with some PMs
People moaning that IM is only in this for the money
People moaning that the run - bike - run will need to be done back to back (if IM can find a way to enforce this)
People moaining that it is not going to be Zwift
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NO WAY!!!
Heretics. Burn them at the stake. How dare they blaspheme the mighty leader.
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Just wait until they hear how a real duathlon/triathlon works 
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