Hmm, I did the Vive le France race tonight as it looked generally flat, and for some reason I ended up in cat A!
Hung onto the lead group at the aqueduct but the last 4K was savage with people having a go on the rollers. Somehow finished 12th despite fat-fingering my powerup and leaving it too late!
Legs know about it though 
Just done TTT and back to B.
No clue what’s going off.
12th in A on that course is excellent. Those rollers with no draft are hell
@fruit_thief where were you for the Bologna afterparty?
Nearly missed the OhNoHill, my boss called me at 5:15 for a “5min” chat. Made it to the pen with seconds to spare. Danny went off like a train, not sure he realised it was 2 laps. Caught him half way up the 2nd lap.
Ended up doing Bologna on a road bike put still couldn’t hold the others on the climb.
Beast mode 
Glad I was washing my hair 
(having dental work 
)
Just had a mega battle on Glasgow reverse in our ladder 5v5 racing.
Really closely matched teams. All 10 ruby riders on velo rank.
Realised early I was hanging on, but was timing the kickers really well.
Not sure how I managed the final effort, but came round for second.
We should, if some data pulls thru, win by a single point. Which will take us second in the league 
Nice points haul on zwiftpower and velo for me too.
I know not many care (likely just me 
) - sounds like zwift have added a change to the xp levelling in system this week and not announced it!!
I had 95 in my sights for tomorrow - but they’ve probably doubled the XP I need to get to 100 now 
Correct.
Did my first Zwift Labs (Racing Score) event today. It’s 636, so I took the lower cat option obvs! Came 6th and improved my Race Ranking by 2pts 
I approve thus far.
I was 678 - got absolutely tanked on the climb. Won my sprint to finish 10/18.
Score still went up - everyone above me bar the A+ was ranked significantly lower before and after the race.
Cat B won the race with a 5.2 min effort and remains a cat B (that metric got me promoted).
I know I shouldn’t care about cats - but hey the data is still there.
I think the seeding score needs work… hopefully more races shifts that balance to racing score rather than seeding score.
Early days tho - still hope it gets closer to zwiftracingapps velo scores.
App had a meltdown on me tonight after I went through a banner in France, went to about 1 frame/20 seconds! Minimising helped for a few seconds, wouldn’t save after but I closed the app and luckily it recovered the ride and finally saved it.
I’m expecting a good lead out @Jorgan
Well that went t1ts up at the end. My controller steered me left and kept me there all thru final sprint.
No draft and massively distracting.
I have some mild lurgy, but didn’t affect me too much. I had a connection dropout on Tuesday inside the last 3km, so it was better than that.
Mild lurgy. Right. It’s mutated into the friggin Motaba virus.
Anyone getting the new aeroroad? I’ve got the drops but mostly stick with the Tron.
Until Zwift let you save bike set-ups, it’s hard to move away from the Tron. I am always last minute into the pen and forget to change wheels, with the Tron it’s just set. Then I can have the lightweight wheels already selected for if I want to swap to the Aethos. Just need to remember to select a disc for TTs.
Having said all that, I have too many drops so might just get one anyway. Think I already have the Scott, which I never use. It will just gather dust in the garage.
Question for @mw22 or @Daz. If your main concern in a race is not getting dropped on the short, sharp climbs like legsnapper, but you can stay in the wheels OK on the flat, is it best to pick a bike a bit more biased towards climbing. Or just Tron and forget like I currently do.
I ride Tron all the time. Placebo possibly, but I think there is a huge metric missing from the speed tests on the flat and climbing.
Acceleration.
I’ve tried to race with the aero set up on flat fast sprints. And I’ve tried to use the Scott on lumpy stuff - both supposedly better than the Tron in each instance.
But when it matters… I’ve been gapped. The scott to me felt sluggish.
The speed tests are done with a sole rider… so really important for TTs. But largely irrelevant in a pack.
I will no doubt buy it, try it, get annoyed and revert back to Tron. Because I dont find it any slower - but I do find it more responsive (but that could be entirely in my little head).
Pretty much my ‘MO’ except for the odd flat event where I use Venge/DT Swiss Disc set (Champs Elysee/Casse Pattes/central London)
Use the Tron for the same reason, except tt’s if/when I remember to swap to the Cadex, and of course forget the next time I start 
