TOW - Stage 5 Eastern Eight
Legs were gone by the hour mark, whimpered over the line.
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Glorious outside.,.so 6 races for the omnium in the garage this weekend.
Race 1 hilly Kom race. P8.
Slow start, tried to be patient on sprint and left it to late.
Hill climb at 3pm…
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Ah forgot about this and now my family want to go to the beach
Might see if still possible around that
Edit no too complicated. Might dip in later anyway though
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Race 1 turned out to be a sprint pb, despite 8th.
12.2 wkg
Race 2 hill climb.
Very weird having a no draft 20km roll out.
Stayed with a group to try and “race” up. Went hard, thought to hard, but carried on. 5 min power pb I think and 3rd place.
iTT at 7pm 
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12.2 wkg 
Seated + crazy high cadence again, or up out of the saddle?
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Seated.
Strava says 143rpm.
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Oh lordy lord.
Race 3 iTT. 16.1km
Leader was starting behind me, but soon made the catch with his very dodgy wattage. Bad enough he’s 55kg but was jumping from 1.8 to 9.2 on the flat.
Went off bit too hot, last km was ugly. Making some odd gurning noises.
P5. 281 watts for 4.1wkg. probably 90 day pb for 20 mins.
Decent day.
Edit now 4th 
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Was just looking at tomorrow’s but I don’t think the times or my legs will work 
Remember this is perfectly legit strategy in Zwift, the sticky watts hugely reward that approach if you can do it.
Sticky watts?
Worth reporting them if so
Sticky watts isn’t illegal, it’s a flaw in the programme, no cheating going on if you’re just doing what the programme allows.
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Race 4.
10 sprint primes up downtown dolphin kicker.
Positions 7,6,2,1,5,5,7,1,8,4
No idea about overall. Thought I’d placed a bit better, had good position every lap.
Truly awful tho …was spent after 8.
Oh those positions might be first across line. Fastest thru are even worse…8,5,3,3,5,1,7,2,5,2
3rd overall in that race.
So secured 2nd place and closed gap to leader.
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I’ve just plodded round ToW 5, missed 3 so will see if I can get it on catch-up
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Race 5
iTT 3km but mass start. No draft.
League leader went off. Pulled him back. Just couldn’t make the pass
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And race 6.
Loads racing just a single event. Made it much harder than it needed to be.
Massive effort up climb to stay in front group.
5th over line. 2nd of the omnium riders.
Hopefully kept 2nd overall.
Brutal weekend
Great event tho.
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Seen you pop up on my feed @mw22 reslly fancied giving the Omnium a go, thanks Covid you bastard!
Hope it was fun….
Yeah without wanting to rub it in, probably the best thing I’ve done.
ZRL is good, but the fields are very big and the racing all very similar.
This had a great mix of variety, both in event type and how they utilised draft, plus mass starts and staggered.
Hopefully they’ll do more.
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I fancied some of the races but the wrong weekend for me. A 5 day evening series would be good.
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Yeah I wanted to but the weekend ran away here. Kudos to @mw22 for doing all 6 
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