"I'll give you a clue ..the weather sucks!" :-D Hahahahaha, same here. Enjoy your vacation and good recovery with your leg. :) Really good how you held on at 10k to go. Tough and fast race. when you're back and recovered and the weather's still bad, we should race again :)
We defo need to set up a race man! Still feel pretty upbeat about this race although I tanked on the last 1.3 km. The numbers were decent considering I'm outside for most of the time.
@@brutalclimb Yeah, the level was just really high and the pace furious. But certainly the last uphill section to the line is where everybody explodes. You were really good! :)
Looked like a good route that Although not hilly enough to drop the big sprinters at the end. 1st place doesn't count, but 2nd place caught everyone sleeping 1k before the end and held just 6w/kg the whole way. Always tough to know when to go and when to save energy. Great encouragement at the end haha
"Great encouragement" would be correct. She said "oh no, you are being dropped by everyone!" and her mother simply stated I had a lot of cables connected to the computer. lol!! not the best time to pay me a visit though. Threw me off trying to multitask and the watts were low. I started early going after the 2nd placed guy, but never reached the proper watts.
Ouch i felt that cramp! This was a horrid race i remember it well. I actually thought "what's happening" as mine was 3.5-4 w/kg along the slight hill then at least 6w/kg up the steep bit just to hold the front. But yours kicked up lap 3. I always keep and eye on everyone's w/kg incase there's a push and be ready. You wasted a lot of energy after a late reaction twice. Although maybe that's a blessing, as racing maximum up that final climb is horrendous. You should definitely do it again knowing the route now. Good luck with your 180km, go at your own pace, eat and put carbs in your water also it'll help. 💪💪
That Danish guy just destroyed me on the climbs. He went into action mode on every climb and I was late all times catching up. I know the route so I'll be better next time. And yes, I'll be including lots of gels and coconut water for the ride. Hope I'm not destroying too many Zwift muscles doing it.
Hi Tor :) Regarding your knee issues: If that is still occuring ... have you tried a blackroll/foamroll? I experience every now and then that from a hard load of training (and your long ride certainly fits in there) some muscles stiffen up. I'm thinking about the thigh here. Normally it doesn't just go away from relaxing a bit. When I foamroll the outer and inner muscles of my thigh, the muscles work again and the knee issues are gone. Reason is that these muscles pull tendons which cross over your knee. Just thought I'd let you know about it from my running experience. So ...no worries there. :) I'm sure it's not serious. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to race. Furthermore when my muscles are blocked I'm also much weaker. Solving that brings back some original power. :)
Thanks man, it's a very good tip and I have a foamroller lying around so I'll put it into use in a few days or so. I don't thionk it's serious, it's just because of the duration of the ride which was beyond what I've done before.
There's no chance. The amount of power some put in up that climb was just insane. When sprint comes and Ive been covering several attacks theres too little left. Thrn theyre doing 10-14 and Im done for. Fun to do one again though
Brilliant, you couldn't have asked much more from yourself. You looked so powerful, didn't fatigue and recovered quickly after making all those efforts to close the break away. The winner was surely a B, with a PB up the climb solo after already pushing hard for 10 minutes. So that was a solid second for you all done 👍💪🏼💪🏼
Yeah man, thanks! Screw that winner. He's not on zwiftpower.com so he doesn't count. lol! I went in for second place and felt totally good. Been feeling very good about these races lately!
@@brutalclimb You did very well indeed! Loved how you bridged to the Scottish rider after his powerful attack, keeping the watts on the climb and saving the power up for the sprint. The watts were really good throughout the race on the climbs too. Very good performance. Would it be an option for you to do Neokyo tomorrow? Like 18:00? 12:00 is possible too but I think that's worse for anybody's schedule. :-D
Gratulerer med sterk kjøring👍Men, du må begynne å vokse istede for olje kjede Larsen😄Jeg har begynt med det og funker helt gull. Alltid rent, pent og lydløst😊 Congratulations on a strong ride👍 But, you have to start wax instead of oil the chain Larsen😄I have started with it and it works like gold. Always clean, nice and quitet😊
Enjoy your vacation! :) Hope the running wasn't too tough. I love doing it besides. It's actually my number one sport. Best regards. Edit: 2nd place! Really good effort after the attacks. Impressive!
when i seen the finish position on the first lap i was thinking it's awful, a big sprinters finish. You rode that really well, around 20km i was thinking "you need to push it's splitting". However you stayed calm, knew the course, saved energy and pushed at exactly the right place. You also did the same on the final lap and thought "oh you've got this, you've got a great chance". However i think you needed to push on the downhill with draft to get the win, as the leaders broke away. So close!!🙏 PS your after race thoughts were muted, could only hear game audio?
Yeah you summed up that well. I was four seconds and two matches away from a very good finish. If I hadnt picked up those breakaways at the volcano twice I would have been right there. I wanted to be in the breakaways at both times and expected the group to stick to the lead if I caught up. It didnt. It was very close. Pushing 169 bpm just at the wrong moment about 500 meters too early. Very close. It was very very fast stuff. I PR'ed on ALL three laps. Something happened to the mic. I have to look into it. Most likely just a drop of sweat muting me.
I didnt climb it, only went down it. I climbed it last season. Here it is ; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P_uwjfDOA5I.htmlsi=oXvT_6mVA4hC0OY3
Unlucky, that's a tough course with long hills and riders doing almost sprints to drop riders. It's difficult to know when to dig deep, let them go or let others do the work for you. Oh PS I've watched history tours and cycling, but I don't know if there's Cycling History Tours, maybe you've found something interesting and unique
Been through worse! Lol! The temp was up to 10C. I was actually making some comments but managed to delete it by accident. I will try to make some interesting videos this year with some purpose and comments to them and not just riding around.
Oh, yes! That was a really exciting and cool race to watch. It was interesting to see how all of the three (C) riders in your group had strong periods and times of struggling. Also very strong by your side to always keep coming back after getting a little gap, specially in the last 2k! Very good. And then of course the strong sprint! Well deserved victory on zwiftpower! :) Very well done! Congrats! I think the races with (about) that amount of riders also creates enough room to really race each other and not just being stuck in a bunch of 100 people who wont really split within 20k. Now I hope you won't catch that cold and that you can hold it off. Treat yourself with some apples, enough water, tea with lemon and honey and so on. :) Get well soon! It's never nice to be out for some time with some sh*t like that ...
I agree about the amount of people. It seems racing works best with 10ish or so. Usually stuck within the group if theres more. Like you say. I was tactical and the poor fellow countryman did a lot of the bus driving but worked for me. 😆 Great race though. Really enjoyed. I got a seminar tomorrow so not looking forward with a cold catching on but perhaps I can sleep it off or something. Wishful thinking I guess.
Only started to watch but I'm only getting it in 360p quality rather than your other videos at 1080p? Great finish, I thought that you missed the boat in the middle of race but they must've been A's & B's and you were the 2nd Genuine C 💪💪
It's most likely still rendering. I finished it just a few hours ago. A & Bs alright. One Japanese rider went for it. Never popped up in the results. A Dane with no BPM went too but no zwiftpower.com for him. So that left us three and voila. Victory.
Sooooo close to holding on the lead pack, the elastic just snapped at the wrong time. That hill was brutal!!....I'm going to give that course a try now. 🤮
Don't know if any of these is for you but I'm eyeing 3R Racing on Friday, 12:00 o'clock and/or Peak-PTY Pre weekend race at 13:20 :) fits nice before work :) best regards
@@t-larsenNevermind! :) Actually I was going so well ..was on the attack over the top of a climb, hoping for victory and then ...screen black! Battery died as I didn't attach the plug completely ...I could have chewed my handlebar from frustration. Tried a second race with tired legs..was ok. So ..nothing missed there. :D Another time maybe.
Oh i thought "this is your race"!. Every lap you looked comfortable up the kicker climb. The last lap the other riders were pulling back the breakaway, you were in a great position for a slingshot and you gave up? but 30 seconds later you put in a monster strong effort standing. If you used a bit of effort earlier to stay in the group/draft, i think you'd have surprised yourself and maybe get a second wind/ podium. I was trying to send some energy telepathically but it didn't help 💪💪
I tanked at 165 bpm. I could rest my legs a little bit before the sprint but looking back at it I could have burnt the last match at the bridge and see where it would take me.
You're right, that hill at the end was no after party 😂🤣🤮. Listening to your speech at the end about losing power over time, try dropping a few gears and standing up for 30 seconds then back up a few gears and spin, keep alternating and see if that helps? 👍
I heard about this trick from my bro, I just haven't managed to get it into my system. I tried to get into that for the last climb up the legsnapper and it was alright. I'll def try this.
Just keep on going man, you will get stronger👍. I started doing a lot of zone 2 training this winter and will do it year round. It gave me a lift. I feel stronger and my legs can last much longer in the red zone. Recommend you to watch this one from the coach of Tadej Pogacar. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dBbK-0vh-d8.html
Hey, I have a video explaining this from my perspective (I am top end of Cat C, soon to be Cat B and couldn't understand why I hadn't already been moved up). With the Jnr in 5th, I bet his actual FTP number isnt high enough to move him up, even though his w/kg would be a Cat B. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GNRqwlJUzX8.html Great effort
Cat C is up to 3.5 FTP (power you can hold for an hour) so an effort of 3.8 for 30 mins isn't that unreasonable. Much above that is a little sketchy I'd say.
The sprint is just ace! Loved the moved with 10k to go too ...I wonder: Could you have contributed to that attack? When the strong Danish guy went for the decisive second time ...would you in hindsight follow or was it just over the limit? I mean ..you always got your sprint, makes sense to save something for that but just wondering if it was an option. Good race! Love the races with fewer riders a lot as there is more tactical variety.
Yeah the Danish guy totally went for it the second time, and I had nothing to answer with. I could have tried but I am 90% certain I would have failed. He was just better, muscle and tactics alike. I really wanted to join up though. In hindsight, I should have contributed more to the 10k attack. I was surprised they caught us again. But what could I have contributed? Perhaps a few nice punches if watts but I was pretty close to the limit so it wouldn't have been much or maybe enough. Good point though, I do wonder if that was the decisive moment and I was too defensive.
@@brutalclimb I see. :) Well .. never easy to judge. I mean ..quite often there are some other strong guys in the group and they want their sprint, so ... never easy to say what's better. But I really like this about the races with fewer riders. Adds another level. :) But most of all: Very good race again!
Really good effort. Despite sitting down you had the power up throughout the climb and passed others. I don't think there's much to do against it. Some people just take off on the climb. Good one! :) Nice dog by the way! :)
Yeah some people seem to just save a lot of energy and blast up climbs like a rocket. I can add like 150-200 watts on those but no more. So it always happens.
Woah that's a brutal climb, need a strong 1 minute power up there. Unfortunately the elastic snapped in front of you both times, not much you could do and did your best. 💪💪
Yeah I dont have the extra muscle or breath adding 100 watts on top of what I already do. Nothing really I can do except getting better so its fine. Did my best.
haha love the paint tin lifting the TV higher to eye level, if it works and gets you riding it's perfect. Those Wahoo fans are bloody expensive though, i bought the Vacmaster off amazon for about 100Euro
Great finish, 300m too late starting the sprint and the gear changes or slips didn't help. Needed to start just before the house, where it's flat into downhill like the 2 who slingshot past you there. I think they won the race from so far back. (no i'm wrong they burnt out) the guy who won was holding 3rd up the hill. Impressive finish none the less
Remembered your name from the start 👍 . You're right with your analysis at the end, with the chatting as used to be a B. I haven't raced (2nd race this week/year) or regularly cycled this year, so down on fitness, power and up on weight haha. Zwift recommended C Cat and trying to find where I'm at so to speak. Didn't have much more to give at the end, chest was burning from the Hero or zero slingshot at the end. Feel a bit guilty now watching you and the effort you're putting in, maybe should've just joined the Bs anyway. 1st was DQ so in theory you got 3rd, you've got a strong finish 💪💪
Nah man you did what Zwift calculated. I got 3rd too ref zwiftpower.com because either people got bumped up or not registered there so I'll take this as a podium! I had a sneaky feeling you had lots of matches left but thats on me trying to get in better shape lol!! Just frustrating to see people fade into the distance but all on my legs and oxygen again. Great race though. The zwiftpower.com result saved the day for me!
@@brutalclimb you did really well, i could see the struggle. Just knowing when to stay and when to push, look forward to watching your further attempts for the win.💪💪
Oh, you're stopping for some time soon? :) When is this going to be? I should try to make one last race together happen. :-D Would be nice. I'm not racing that much at the moment though. My race on Tuesday showed me: Don't race just two days after a long run. My legs were weak, my heart kept it low ... I shouldn't race often at the moment. Really good race by the way. Maybe I should give that Glasgow course another go too but these hills seem like a tough boundary in decisive moments.
Im heading outside by mid April most likely but the videos wont stop. Its just outdoors riding and whenever bad weather kicks in - I'll be doing races. And for sure we need that race man. Next up Friday 1500 cet most likely
@@brutalclimbAh, I see. :) We'll see. Tomorrow is another running day, scheduled and fixed, Sunday as well. But I'd like to make it happen in the second half of next week. Maybe we'll find something. Otherwise..there's still a month to go until mid April. :) Have fun tomorrow at 1500cet then! Curious to see how it went later.
On the positive side , with the amount of effort you put in, you will be improving and getting stronger, and when you get a good result you know it will be because you deserve it. The cheats know they are working around the system, and there is no glory in that.
I looked at the times for tuesday and turns out the leaders did more effort then. The whole tuesday race was a lot quicker AND harder but I enjoyed this one immensely
Great video and excellent racing+sprint! Zwift Games is replacing Zwift Racing this month. There is cash, golden Tron-bike and golden Kickr Bike up for grabs!
@@brutalclimbGet well soon though and have fun in your seminar! :) Race was competitive and fun ..too fast to break away, tough sprint from a group of 11. You would have loved it haha. Me on the other hand ..not that much. :D
@@brutalclimbOh, sorry. I'd love to but today my schedule lets me go for a run. :) I'm sure we'll make it happen again. Good luck! Looking forward to see how you've done later.
I feel your pain. I looked up the guy in 5th place. He's a 36 kg kid!!! There should be more categories where the weight of the riders was also comparable, but it's just too easy to cheat with i guess. Oh and the winner has done several A Cat races, then dropping til B, then C. It seems so suz.
