I could probably do a mid week one, possibly Saturday but post marathon. Have to play everything by ear until Nov 22nd
I’d be up for dipping into the Saturday morning race.
I would have done that last night if the bastards behind me didn’t all drop out leaving me last but one in a two up sprint for 13/14th
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and… did you get 13th???
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what are you lot classing as Saturday ‘morning’. Are you like some of my friends that think 10am is the morning?! 
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Indeed. Would have been more fun, I had the ghost boost left over was going to deploy with 0.2 miles left and go off the front but it wouldn’t engage by which time he’d started his attack, I just got up on the line
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The only time I’d go on my bike before that at the weekend would be if I still had a paper round 
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i would have finished a 4 hour ride, be showered, changed and fed and ready to get on with phase two of the day by then! 
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Anyone racing or doing any events this lunchtime ?
I’m home alone, with no meetings past 11.00 at the moment, so have a bit of flexibility for once.
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Race 1 (6-7pm midweek)
Daz
Poet
Symes
JeffB
TRO Saracen
NickBerry if ever on a Wednesday
MW22
Jorgan
Adam (maybe)
Matt If Tuesday
JGav (maybe)
Race 2 (Sat morning)
Daz
Poet
Symes
TRO Saracen
MW22
Adam
Matt - If raining
JGav
That’s the bloody afternoon!
We’re up at 6am, but my turbo is bloody loud, so, for the sake of family sanity, it’s 0730 starts for me on weekends.
Tue, Weds, Thus PM would work best for me 
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Don’t get me started on that. My old local group ride in Winchester used to meet at 9am in summer. I said the day was half over by then! Winter, yes but not summer.
My new club meets at 8.15 which is better but in summer, a 6.30 start would be where I’m looking.
Trouble is, as I found out when I moved here, Pommie coffee shops open really late in the morning!
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How many laptops do you have @gingerbongo?
I am doing:
1331 ZHQ FutureWorks Circuit Race - Anti-sandbagging - CatB (2 laps 16.5km of Champs-Elysses, this should take 27-28 minutes, giving ONE minute to switch worlds to…)
1400 ZA Road WO #4 - Anaerobic Resilience (this is 63minutes…giving two minutes to switch worlds into…)
1505 3R LaGuardia Super Sprint Race - 1 Lap (3.7km/2.6mi 27m)
I am trying to set a better 15s, 1:00 power in the first event, then a sustained 5:00 effort in the final event.
middle event is just a workout for Zwift Academy, just trying to get my saddle time up without being bored out of my tree.
I’ve got stuff i need to do, despite not having any meetings. I’ve just loaded Zwift onto the ipad though, as i’m fed up (and it became a bit of a blocker) of the laptop taking ages to connect to zwift, or crashing on loading etc. Could take anything between 2mins and 15 mins to get going. So it’ll be a bit crap on a tiny screen, but may enable me to be more reactive when i have a gap.
Might jump on that 1331 one though. Get 30 mins or so in beforehand, and then that’ll give me a decent enough hour.
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GET ON IT!!!
I’ll be using my wifes personal SSD laptop today, as I need the speed…the basement laptop is over a decade old and was stuttering like hell with 10k people in Watopia yesterday (about 300 on the cadence minge bot!)
I’m off next 3 days, so no usual daytime rides. Did a race at 08.30 today.
Again, my turbo is loud (old Satori) and can be heard from our bedroom as the garage is attached to the house…so never start particularly early, much like Poet.
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The one with the Japanese chap; at 176cm tall and 59kg???
I did a ‘boost mode’ crit yesterday, cat B. Entered a bit blind not taking notice of the boost mode bit but got the explanation etc and picked my boost mode.
Very odd race in that I made the lead B’s easily - pack of 7 (usually a struggle), and was comfy in the pack and up the cobbled climb and was eagerly anticipating the rare treat of an actual sprint finish.
But I;d forgotten about the boost mode and hadn’t charged up, last cobbled climb and off the top of it pretty much the rest of the group used their boosts and got away…so no sprint finish and 7th.
Oddly I got the win on ZP, no idea why the top 6 weren’t recorded as there was no way any of them were dropping too many watts to get a B result.
Anyway if you do end up in a boost mode race, use it otherwise you are bringing a knife to a gunfight when it gets serious late on…
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Dunno, but there was someone with a green triangle on the list; japanese name iirc.
It was supposed to be a Boost race, but wasn’t for whatever reason.
Green triangle is the “cone of shame” - suggesting they are in wrong category