Won my first Zwift race this morning! Ok there were only 4 people in it, but you can only beat who else is there right 
Time to retire.
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Lined up for the Zwift Games Queen Stage this morning. Flag dropped, pedaled like crazy and went nowhere 
felt like zero resistance on the Kickr. Had to turn it off and on again, by which time everyone else was 90 seconds up the road so I had a fun hilly 45km TT
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I’m upgrading the SL8, Aethos and Shiv TT to work towards the Project 74 Halo.
SL8 will be pretty down fast on stage5 for the flat and undulating. The Aethos is a climbing monster, so you can use that for hilly races or a race with a decent uphill finish.
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Be interesting to see how the Halo bikes compare on each stage, but if you’ve already got likes of the SL8 and Aethos on Stage5, then you can then just upgrade the entry level zwift bikes to get the Tron Halo started. You then have the Project 74 and Tron Halos good to go.
Earn XPs on outdoor rides?
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Just saw that!
That was hard work tonight but despite getting my arse handed to me I still got 10 points 
just about clung on until the last steep section through titans but after that it was a lonely ride until one of the other lads had slowed down. My legs were wrecked from not racing much and a massage earlier on.
Good workout though.
Daz smashed it, second time racing today and won this one by a decent distance!
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P6 of 32 for me
Considering I was cramping in my warm up I’ll take that.
One team made it particularly hard… And also had an “adaptive cyclist” go solo before halfway.
Some very questionable pedalling techniques, topped with an avg HR of 121bpm (lowest in the race 
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She was sitting on then .
It’s the ZRL finals tomorrow, can’t help thinking timing wasn’t great over Easter, already light nights but a lot of people on holidays so we’re scraping the barrel with me! Even worse news for me is that it goes uphill almost immediately so it’ll be goodnight Vienna almost straight away 
MW22 are you racing?
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Yeah. We might have 14 teams. Still trying to work out the details. Specifically if there’s just one burrito or one every time thru the brae.
In the meantime had some insecure bloke trolling the wife on a pacer ride. Questioning her power, weight, fan viewing her, questioning more stuff.
Fortunately he was still on when I rode. My z1 ride went out the window.
Picked up a sprint jersey, c0ckwomble had 3 more. He kindly led me out for the next one at which point I engaged with him.
Utter 
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Made my ride fly by. Got a nice screen shot of him threatening me too 
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Some people are complete walnuts 
hope she’s not too put off! He’s probably jealous as his W/KG isn’t in the 5’s, I saw her profile on the BL13 if she’d race with Cat and a few others they’d totally crush them!
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How did you get on tonight @jeffb ??
Considering our team won our division multiple times this season .. Kinda funny when 3 individuals smashed our entire team score.
If I’m a sandbagging B I’d love to know that the are.
I was nearly dropped on first Kom. Had to work all the way down as last man. Nearly quit as we left Glasgow.
Blew up on lap 3…but was actually lap 4. Which in hindsight was quite annoying.
Hardest race I’ve done in some time… For p22 
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I nearly made it in the group in the first climb, probably played my feather a bit too late and that was that. But a really small field of only 14 after another BL13 lad had to DNS at teatime.
After that I just treated it as a very hard TT and workout, was actually a watt or two higher than last week and didn’t get lapped on those miserable laps 
Daz & Robbie were 2nd & 3rd but I think one team had nearly half the field so they’ll have taken the lead.
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Should have mentioned earlier, but we have a new BL13 race series starting. Every Wed night, 6:15 and 6:35pm BST. 10 weeks, 20 races.
They are all custom courses of 10km and 20km with power-ups suited to the courses. The 20km has all power ups. Good fun, and mass starts so you get a chance to race all cats.
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We update every week on our Facebook page:BL13 Racing Team
Just done my first ride as leader.
Bloody hell I thought pacing at parkrun was stressful.
So many things to try and keep on top of. Glad I picked a pretty flat route.
Watts instinctively spiked when I set them off for a race to the finish
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Did the first 3 tiny races, still can’t sprint 
Can relate to that mate. I’ve lead and swept. It’s OK on a flat course with team mates to share the responsibilities with. But if it’s a challenging course that splits the pack then it can be tough.
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Fun day for me. Got accused by my ‘stalker’ of “he ruins every race he enters”
Bearing in mind these manbabies don’t say a word when some chancer is off the front doing 5.5w/kg, but no…a guy who’s already dropped off the pack and finishes in 18th or something in a lunchtime race…my opening gambit “don’t exagerrate snowflake” seemed to trigger him. He emboldens a couple of others to pile on, so after exclaiming my set-up is sh!t and IDGAF it’s a game which seems to sting. The exchange is apparently brought to a close with lads focus on your own sh!t or go to ZRL. For reference this is my set-up:
Tyre has a few events left for sure, and the trainer will outlive me…
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