Race Date: Wednesday, April 22 (ongoing weekly series - different course each week)
• WOMEN’S RACE // RACE START 7:07am PST / 10:07am EST / 3:07pm UK / 4:07pm CET
• MEN’S RACE // RACE START 7:47am PST / 10:47am EST / 3:47pm UK / 4:47pm CE
The course is fairly flat but with 2 x climbs up Box Hill, the race will likely fracture into groups on this first climb. And, with a finish at the summit of Box Hill on the second loop, it’ll be a long, hard-fought grind for this week’s victor.
From what I’ve been told Lionel, Flora, Lucy, a good field.
Total distance: 25.5km (16 miles)
Elevation Gain: 375m (1230ft)
Race Notes: Unlike in regular Zwift riding, you won’t see TT bikes or Tron bikes, but you will see disc wheels and the ability for riders to strategically utilize Power-Ups to gain various advantages throughout the ride.
I hope and believe the Youtube Livestream that I’ve embedded above will populate with THIS week’s event shortly before it starts.
Audio choppiness from the commentators is pretty bad. Not as interesting to watch on mute but also super distracting when the commentators are constantly dropping in and out. Bummer.
Women’s race is 15 min in. Any idea why the world isn’t ‘closed’ (why other avatars are visible)?
you can program it either way. in our scheduled events on slowtwitch we can choose whether other riders are visible. i don’t believe you can select invisibility of your group, but you can choose to have your group be the only riders on the road during your scheduled event. i think it’s pretty clear that the better option for THIS race series is to make other riders invisible, so that you can tell who’s racing and who’s not. also, i suspect that with other riders present in the event you could draft a rider not in the race.
Thanks Dan. It does seem like Lucy and Emma got a nice assist on the first Box Hill descent from outside riders - not a complaint, just a feature of having other riders on the road. I agree that it would be better with other riders invisible.
Huge setup error not make other riders go away! Sucks for the winner as there will be an asterix at the result. Adam and simon yates just pulled lucy and pallant around a bit, noone has a chsnce to gap up.
Hope it is fixwd for mens race
Huge setup error not make other riders go away! Sucks for the winner as there will be an asterix at the result. Adam and simon yates just pulled lucy and pallant around a bit, noone has a chsnce to gap up. Hope it is fixwd for mens race
seems like nobody but the men’s race entrants are in the course.
Honestly watching the race on Lucy’s channel was much better than the actual Zwift channel, helps that she was leading but could actually see the course, some stats (watts/HR) and the audio was much better listening to Reece coach her. This could be so much better if Zwift could figure it out.
Honestly watching the race on Lucy’s channel was much better than the actual Zwift channel, helps that she was leading but could actually see the course, some stats (watts/HR) and the audio was much better listening to Reece coach her. This could be so much better if Zwift could figure it out.
keep in mind lucy is a zwift athlete. there are a few. lucy, lionel. they’re in a different category. like mo farah. specific zwift contracts. so it’s quite possible zwift has worked with lucy on her specific audio-visual set up. the zwift guys are pretty smart.
I don’t know who Sam Laidlow is, but he just held 480 watts for 33 minutes. Dan I think he should get a slowtwitch story.
young kid born to English parents grew up In pyrenyes and went to school for high performance tri kids I don’t know him personally but an ex athlete of mine speaks very highly of him, has been telling me for more than 5 years this guy will be really good .
Saw he’s only 21!! Definitely has a bright future if those numbers are accurate.
Edit: Ok after looking into this further. Unfortunately it looks like those numbers cannot be accurate. This would make his FTP likely in the 6w/kg realm, which is from what I’ve read the same as Egan Bernal.
it’s certainly fair to scrutinize someone’s ability to ride zwift based on demonstrated ability outdoors. but i would caution you about power averages in races. what races? lots of descents? where little or no power is produced, bringing the average way down? i’d like to see someone’s entire power file, drop it into Ray’s analysis tool, select those times when pedaling is steady, and look at the averages for those segments. compare those to whatever you want to look at in-game.
I’m not really sure what you are talking about. I only used this dude as an example, one that comes across as highly suspect. He didn’t upload this result to Strava either.
For the sake of argument, his average power during that 70.3 was 261 watts and his NP power was likely around 270, based off of the weighted average power on Strava. I understand that this is different from NP but the numbers are usually fairly close. He put out an overage of 400 watts for 33 minutes today. Obviously not steady and consistent, and I’m guessing that his NP was in the range of 415-420. With that being said, if he did an all out, steady, well-paced, 30 minute effort he could get to 415-420 based off of this. That would put his FTP in the realm of at least 380-400 watts. So he rode that 70.3 at 69% of his FTP for that 70.3.
Obviously this is all speculation but you can’t really believe some of the efforts can you? Do you honestly think this guy rode at 6.1 w/kg for 33 minutes or the guy at 6.6 w/kg?
I have nothing against this guy but you will start to lose the big name guys/gals if these jabronis continue to put out world tour efforts.
