How many trips up have you had?
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Only 12, thought it was more so probably can’t complain.
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Had a go at the weekly TT tonight, got round in 7:08, was very heavy legged though.
It’s entirely possible I’ve done too many hard sessions in the last week 
I did get some points at the weekend on the Tiny races though.
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Nice little Zwift this evening. A 30km race in New York as a ‘C’
Got in a lead group of 8. I have feeble top end power, so my only hope in a group is to go from a long way out. It never works in practice but at least I feel like have given it a shot.
This time, went for it with an aero power up and a surge from the back at 1.5km to go, managed to build a 10 second gap pretty quickly & actually almost held it to the line, got pipped for 2nd in the last 100m. Enjoyed it.
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Your CDA probably hampered by all that sand in your panniers!! Cat C!! ffs 
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Some new roads including a gravel section announced today by DCR, also levels above 100 but sounds like it’s just for show and you don’t actually gain a better bike or anything!
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Just….. How very dare you 
I’ve got a million XP banked over the current level 100 which will get me accelerated at 4* that of the level 99 and below peasants 
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Zwift games iTT
Deeply unpleasant. Had plugged a team mates ride into my sauce mod, so basically Strava live segment in play on my TV.
Plan was to try and get a 2 sec gap then just hold it. Plugged my numbers into zwift bikes and had a power target.
Never once did I get ahead, was in trouble before the downhill, was in even bigger trouble at the bottom knowing it was 5km back up
Did manage to hold power .. But the time just kept going out .
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My legs aren’t up to racing yet! Still can’t walk properly
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Think I raced you in the Mario Zwift game yesterday. Or at least we were on the tarmac at the same time. Hard to race anyone, really just a solo slalom effort.
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Yeah I didn’t really have any plans to race it having heard how bad it was.
Had a good first lap then got mullered by multiple red blocks and reverted to my plan to finish in the bottom half to “help”my zrs
Steering isn’t good enough for that gaming.
Looking at my TT numbers, not sure I can do much more. Averaged 4.2 (tho I did 4.3 all the way up the alp 
). Don’t really have much left in the tank.
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Bit of a lame achievement, but I managed to join a Zwift crit race at 7.30pm this evening having only left work at 7.23 pm, rode down the hill, and walked in the front door at 7.26pm
This included firing up the Mac, choosing a race, hooking up to TV, pairing HR and Saris, and having a wee.
It also included stripping down to boxers, but sadly there was not enough time to put a pair of bike shorts on. So, a crit in boxers and work socks.
Hopped onto the turbo with 4 seconds until the start of the race, and did the first lap with feet on top of shoes, a bit like after T1 in a tri.
Unfortunately it was all in vain as got spat out the back on a small hill on lap 5.
Enjoyed the beer after 
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I was exploiting a bug or something Daz mentioned elsewhere. If you go onto Mayan 8 on the first sprint after about 3K there’s a big wheel spin, turn round for about 400M and repeat, there was a lot of people up to it 
But I don’t think it was the current big spin as all I was getting was sunglasses and hats and not the tri-spoke I wanted.
However, if the spin gave you something you already had you get 10,000 drops instead.
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My exploting has come to an abrupt stop. Just got a team mate banned. Nicest guy in the club too 
They seem to have upped the BOT monitoring, was only getting his TT bike up a couple of levels to try and help him in ZRL on Tues as hes been out of action for a while. 15 minutes in and he was flagged.
Feel SO guilty…. and likely to be a rider down now for ZRL!
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Why did he get banned? I wasn’t following a bot, how would that get him banned?
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Cause I was artifically generating bike power on his account. Not much wattage I may add.
I used to use the software for my own bike speed tests - wont be doing that anymore either (same way Zwift Insider does it)
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If you want the old tri-spoke you have to go up the Alp or Epic KOM:
The sprint will only get you hats or glasses (or 10k drops).
I’ve done a few of the current spins, and so far got the bike and the wheels twice.
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Bollocks to that then
Although I do need to do the Alpe again soon to get my sub 60 pacing dialled in
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I got the tri spoke on a spin last week. I can’t remember what the ride was, but it definitely wasn’t the Alp
The tri spoke looks cool, but it’s heavy and not particularly aero
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How is it not aero 
it was the original cool AF aero wheel and won lots of stages and on Obree’s bike 
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