“this morning”?! What time did you start??
5.25 again. Quite enjoyed it again actually. It’s a couple of guilt free hours, just on my own with nobody about. Allows me to be productive during little one’s hour nap in other areas then. Whether that’s spending time with the older one or cracking on with stuff in the garden.
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Welcome to Parenthood. Are you scared yet? 
I was soft, and got to go out at 07.15!
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Sunday morning Watopia Pretzel. If I’d known I was that close to 3 hours I’d have gone a bit harder.
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Or you could stay in bed until nearly 11am without them 
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I used to like you @jeffb
I got up at 09.34 yesterday; that felt pretty slothenly. Tbh my back aches if I stay too long in bed! I’m still getting up at 06.30 six days a week.
I also get the backache if I do it for too many days on the trot. But with not racing I’ve been going to bed a bit later on the weekends, which isn’t great for your actually sleep.
I’ve been getting up at 7:30 for work with not having to have a shower or drive to work etc., normally up about 6:45.
I’ve always been a lazy git though, it baffles other people but I reckon GB knows what I mean.
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Today was 10 laps of the Volcano. Best time shown below, but only reason I got top spot is cause the person ahead of me logged off. No interest in slogging through to 25, but then I did ride outside 4 or 5 days in a row, and yesterday involved 3 hill climbs so I was definitely feeling it.
[Edit: now level 26, and also working my way through the stupid Ceramic Speed challenge]
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Longest Watopia route ticked off this morning with the uber pretzel. Was a pretty brutal ride. My laptop lost signal to my power meter in the first half hour up the Epic KOM so I had to quickly switch to the trainer power stream so as to keep riding. A chase to catch back up to the group ensued. Watching my Garmin stream, I could see the trainer was underreading to my p2m, so why I then tried to go sub60 up the Alpe to finish I have no idea. Well, I do, ego. But it wasnt sensible. I was knackered after 4hrs of riding to that point, I was going to have to work 10w harder for the same speed as if I was trying on my power meter, and all in all it was just a bad idea.
I exploded at about 45mins in, and limped over the line in 61:28 I think. I spent 20mins lay in the kitchen floor in a dizzy, sweaty heap.
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That’s not a bad time up the Alpe after 4 hours 
Love the commitment though @stenard, good stuff man. Maybe have an easy day tomorrow?
Definitely. This was meant to be a recovery week on my trainerroad plan. The 2 recovery sessions, but layered with 2 zwift races, and 8+hrs over the weekend is really not achieving that goal!
I need to remind myself (and have earlier this afternoon) that it’s the recovery where you get stronger and the adaptations occur. I am at risk of digging myself into a bit of a hole.
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Still got that one to tick off, did you do it solo or group ride? What was your AP and W/Kg?
Did PRL half this morning at a very easy pace.
Group ride, with the “keep together” setting. I got a bit screwed by it given the ant+ failure, as it meant I got a bit stuck off the back and you have to work fairly hard to get back in range to get sucked back into the group. It kind of screws AP and w/kg metrics given the rubber band AI on speed. We took just over 4hrs to get to the base of the Alpe, with a couple of stops to re-group, and a 10 or so minute toilet break at 85k. Most, including me, left the meet-up for the Alpe ascent however.
Total ride time to the route completion was just over 5hrs. My TP numbers are a bit skewed by the fact that the trainer power was reading lower than my power meter, but I guess that’s all zwift had to go by so zwift times will reflect the numbers I have.
I did 164AP, 183NP. 164w equates to 2.35w/kg. That’s a bit skewed by the toilet break and Alpe descent though, so add another 0.1 or 0.2 w/kg to factor in those items. But as I say, all bar the Alpe will be a bit impacted by the “keep together” setting. I did 3.21w/kg up the Alpe for the first c53mins, before blowing up. The final just under 8mins was only 2.36 w/kg. The total climb was exactly 3.1 w/kg for the 61:28.
Did that yesterday morning. Felt that one was pretty easy. I’m fairly confident PRL full would be easier than Uber Pretzel.
Just to make up for the disappointment of yesterdays race power cut, I did the 3R Tick Tock Flat race on the Fuego Flats course. Managed to grab a nice 2nd place out of 700 entries.
I only joined with 40s before the start, which meant I was right at the back of the start pen. Big effort to get onto the front, luckily no gaps to bridge. Raced sensibly in lead pack, which had 95 riders, however the pace was so high, constant 320w+ that the pack fell appart, leaving around 40 in the lead group. The final push for the line is where I normally struggle, so with 3km to go, I got to the front and kept in the top 5. 400m to go pushed really hard to stay on the wheel of the lead out riders, with 50m to go I took the lead, but peaked too early and lost the lead just before the line, but this is my strongest ever sprint finish. Got my highest ever 5m, 1m and 30s peak power.
I’ve always enjoyed Zwift racing, but now that I am pretty consistently in the hunt for podium finishes, it is even more addictive. It seems that the pre-requisite to being near the front of a Cat A race is being able to maintain in excess of 5w/kg
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Anyone signed up for the Tour for All?
I was going to - I only started when the Watopia tour was a thing. But it seemed new and novel and there was double XP and routes I’d not done.
So despite chasing all these badges for routes and the like - I can’t get excited by this now.
Not sure I need anymore kit in a wardrobe I won’t use.
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Yeah the double xp was nice wasn’t it
I’ve entered the 18:10 tomorrow night, quite a long one though, 37K.
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