I am TTing at 1505 today on the Tempus Fugit course…anything I need to know?
go out hard and hold it. The turnaround takes forever to come and the last couple of k’s seem never ending. Its basically flat with a short false flat that can drag. Dont ride at 100% “trainer difficulty” because you’ll lose power on the return down that 2%
That’s what I need to change then. What resistance would you recommend as I am getting dropped by folk I know are bigger and slower in real life.
Tour For All Stage 2 group ride completed last night. Watopia Magnificent 8 course may look flat on paper, 161m over 29km, however, from experience, I know that it has one decent climb, with a very nasty steep section, so Specialized Tarmac and Lightweight wheels are the way to go
Despite joining the starting pen a little late, I managed to catch the lead group relatively easily. Needed to keep around 320w to keep up with leaders, and did a few turns on the front. Lead group was pretty massive, with around 200 riders. After 6km hit the climb, and really went for it, working with a group of riders, pushing around 400-500w for 3 mins, we got to the top as a group of 15, with a 10s gap to the chase group. From there on the gap slowly increased, and by the time we hit Fuego Flats, we had a 1m20s lead. There is no point trying to break away on the flats, and I was relieved that we settled into a pretty comfortable rythm at 270w. There was an attempt to break the group on the climb at the end of the flats, but clearly all riders were pretty savy to this. As expeted the final 5km the intensity went up a few more notches, I was putting in a pretty constant 350w, just over 5w/kg to hold position. Its always tough at the end of a race as you need to keep something back for the final sprint. This time, I delayed my sprint longer than usual but put in a massive effort, achieving an average of 10.4w/kg, in doing so, I passed 8 riders in the final metres before the line, finishing in 4th place.
The winner, Samuel Plouhinec is a 44 year old former Pro Rider, who, according to Wikipedia is World champion on road masters and World champion of the masters time trial. He managed 13.2w/kg in the final sprint… no way I will ever match that, and I suspect he had something left in reserve
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Is this a setting?
I haven’t encountered this before…
Yeah its on your in game “settings” option… .alot of confusion how it works.
I believe @stenard has mentioned between 20-30%
Yes, you are starting 1 minute ahead of me 
. I love Time Trial Tuesday. Done Bologna last couple of weeks, so wanted to Tempus Fugit today
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BUGGER!!!
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Spooner as your minute man!!
Good luck!!
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Yeah, swine-o off!!!
So, can I boot up Zwift on a different (SSD) laptop to change the settings?
Then start up by 10 year old laptop and the new settings will be there?
(My Zwift laptop takes around 43 minutes to load up)
For racing, yes. Although Matt says he uses 100% so it’s all personal I guess. As mentioned before, Matt’s references to standing pretty much the whole ride imply he’s a low inertia rider, whereas I’m the total opposite.
20-30% means you’ll feel the changes in gradient, so can respond to the normal increases in wattages on climbs and rollers, but can hold power over the tops of climbs and on descents. If you’re at 100%, some rollers can feel like hitting a brick wall, and then 5s later you have no resistance at all when going down the other side.
On a flat TT, I would probably just turn to 0%. We are doing a TTT on Thursday evening, and have decided to turn down to 0% as that way we feel we’ll hold the group better as there will be no surging in our power numbers regardless of the terrain (it’s Volcano flat, so no real inclines of note anyway)
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Hit level 11 today so treated myself to the Tarmac Pro.
This means I’ll be winning all the races with a hill now right??
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Thanks @Hammerer and @stenard I just checked and I was set at 100%. This should make it interesting for tomorrow’s TT
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I got given the Trek Emonda, which appears to only be seconds slower than the Tarmac. So I saved my money.
I think I’ll save up for the first half decent tt bike I can get and some aero zipps. That way I’ll have a good climber - the Emonda with the early Enves. An OK aero road, the zwift aero (with some 808s maybe). And then I’ll grab one of the sub level 15 tt bikes (shiv is attainable) with some 808s when I level up. I’m about 15% into level 12 at the mo.
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Yeah, I’m not far off completing the basic Everest challenge now. I only clicked over to it a week or so ago. Regret persisting with the California challenge now!
Eh?
You’ve got buy bikes and shit in the game???
WTAF?
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I think you need to go back a thousand posts or so and do some reading! 
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Poet has a wheel-on trainer, so riding out of the saddle is going to be difficult for any length of time; unlike a direct-drive. At least, I cannot ride out of the saddle properly on my Tacx Satori, more just perch above it momentarily.