Back on it, ignoring the radiator in need of flushing and painting 
Still not 100% happy with the make shift “exercise zone,” but it’s better than nowt 
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The espresso cup on a little saucer is very Poet.
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It’s a flat white cup, from Denby, but thanks 
I broke my espresso saucers; they’re nice little pink numbers from Habitat at Sainsbury’s
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Clearly Cat B is still full of sandbaggers! Decided to jump onto the Libby hill race, the first 3K was very spicy, saw quite a few 6W\KG’s and my legs were burning trying to hang on.
First 20k must have been about 3.8W\KG before it slightly eased and I was just about holding on a few times. It eased for a bit and I hung around until about 2K to go. I knew and uphill finish wasn’t going to suit me so I cruised it in from there.
A good sharp workout though.
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Yes, 7pm tomorrow, ride with the Lion(el) & Jan for the birthday ride!
45 minute blob fest!
Jan Frodeno & Lionel Sanders’ BIG BIRTHDAY BASH Ride
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Just got my first every Tiny race win… And then got another.
Made an absolute hash on the downhill finish for race 2 which might cost me the series win.
Was really pleased with race 1. Executed it perfectly 
1/11/1/6
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Nice one Mike. Me and a team-mate (Aden) went hell for leather on the final climbs of race 2 and 4. I spinned other two. Too old for 4 efforts now!
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Series win
That first finish was just perfect for me.
I was in perfect position over the top of Libby but pushed too early.
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Impressive win in those size fields @mw22
That sort of haul should see you into the top points category asap 
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BL13 custom 10km races tonight if any of you guys fancy something different. They are mass cat starts at 18:10 and 18:35. So all cats start together. We pick courses and power-ups to make it interesting, usually plenty of attacks.
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After over 60 races in the last 18 odd months.
Finally captained us to World rank number 1 in the ladder series.
Tonight’s race was nothing short of hell for me. After 15 minutes my average power was north of 300. With an FTP of 275 my implosion was imminent to roll home dead last.
Team took it to the sprint and everyone was so wrecked we all calculated we lost.
Results came thru with a 1 point marginal win.
My wbal was emptied in 10 mins and HR stuck over 190!!
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I seem to be racing in cat C with the new scoring as I’ve not really raced much over summer, but probably get bumped up again soon if I get points quickly.
Did a couple of tiny races on Saturday which weren’t as savage, cocked up the first one as I was spinning out and couldn’t get to the resistance on the wattbike before most people had cleared off! Did a bit better on the second race but was cooked and finished up 12th I think.
Will probably get on a few more over the coming months.
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Just had a full on effort on the Alp.
Teammates have been smashing PBs all week… With silly times of 41-44 minutes.
No hope of that
Had a plan to start at 250w for couple of corners then build into 270w and hope to have a finish to offset the relatively easy start
Previous pb 49:18. Same weight, no lightweight bike, no draft. That was off 271 watts.
Target today was 270. Lightweight bike and wheels. Lots of draft (for a hill).
Actual watts 270 
Time 49:28. Gutted.
I know 1w is about 12 secs difference…but I thought with other things I’dve edged it.
Last 15 mins was tough. Final 5 was hell.
Gave it everything 
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currently have zwift on my laptop ( which is dated & very slow to fire up) ,thinking of getting a cheap smart tv on Black friday and wondering is it just as easy to use the app on Iphone to connect to TV.
open to suggestions
Or an Apple TV on eBay connected to an aging cheap tv. That’s what I managed to find. And apart from occasional hiccups it works pretty well.
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Just come out of an event where lots of N.VALID joined, race started then about a minute in everyone just disappeared and I was out of the race, but still connected numbers wise 
I often find if I start up Zwift then disappear to get changed I come back and it’s crashed.
ETA - the update has just failed too.
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Thats normally a failure on zwifts server side - lack of internet client end just has you riding solo.
Was spates of this 12-18 months ago - became a running joke.
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Yeah I’m on Ethernet this end. Can’t even get it to start up now; restarting laptop.
Lots of disconnections for me tonight on ToW, wasn’t even big field either.
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I’ve just been bumped up to Category C. Presumably that means instead of finishing front of mid-pack in Category D I’m just going to be last all the time now with faster people right?
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