Zwift vFMR #2 6:15 AM 12/30

[cbusick]

http://zwift.com/events/view/4347
https://discord.gg/mjN93h2
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Join the Minuteman Road Club for their Friday morning ride. Should take about 1 hour.
2 Laps of the London Loop (including box hill). That's 9.2 miles/loop.
Steady group pace of 2.5 w/kg on the flats and throat punching on Box hill.

LAP 1:
Steady 2.5 W/kg from the start to the Box Hill KOM
Attack Box Hill. The leader will act as a back marker on Box hill, maintaining a steady 3.5 w/kg up Box hill (around 8:45 for the segment)
After the banner at the top of box hill, if you are ahead of the leader, soft pedal at 1 w/kg until the leaders group catches you.
The leader will go back to 2.5 w/kg at the banner and sweep up those that are soft pedaling.

LAP 2:
Steady 2.5 W/kg until the start of the Box Hill KOM
Everyone should be behind the leader until we cross the line marking the start
of the Box Hill segment.
Then hammer time from the bottom of Box Hill to the finish line (around 5 miles)
Check out "box hill start to the finish line":
https://www.strava.com/activities/80935 ... 9763449452

We use discord for voice. Join us on the "MRC FMR Zwift event" channel: https://discord.gg/mjN93h2
Route: London Loop

[mohinishvi]

Out this week

[jraguin]

In.

[Fintan]

In

[ahamilton]

In

[pace21]

In. Hoping to regain my dignity after strava-gate last week

[KTeves]

Planning 'in.' Question is: will I still be on the dumb trainer (KK Road Machine) or KICKR2 I'm waiting for delivery?

Is anyone going to be on Zwift before the vFMR so I can test me Discord set-up? Tonight? Tomorrow night?

Also, curious if anyone else on the vFMR is still on a dumb trainer, or am I the last to make the switch?

[scottc]

in

[mtrudell1]

In - for as long as I can hang.

[cbusick]

Anyone who's worried about making it up the hill the first lap should think about doing the flat loop as a warm-up before the event starts until you can get a feather power up that you can use there to help maintain contact.

Just go though the Sprint banner until you get it

[Mkidd3]

In

[Mkidd3]

Anyone who's worried about making it up the hill the first lap should think about doing the flat loop as a warm-up before the event starts until you can get a feather power up that you can use there to help maintain contact.

Just go though the Sprint banner until you get it

Light as a feather, stiff as a board?

[jraguin]

How long / time is the flat loop? I have been a bit sick so if I can even get myself up, I will need it.

[teamkimball]

Looking forward to joining and getting dropped tomorrow.

[cbusick]

John,
On the way in, select "Classique" route and join our event then start riding. It's 2 Miles from the start to the Classique loop, then 3 miles per lap of the Classique loop. Zwift will take you to our event a couple minutes before it starts. Or you could just try riding back and forth through the start finish banner, wasting any power ups that you don't want until you get the feather. I think that will work, but I haven't tried it.

-Chros

[miker2]

In. Getting up early on my day off...

[pwess]

ouch.....
see you next week. i think.

[teamkimball]

Thanks for organizing the ride guys... Good time.

[KTeves]

For any Zwift aficionados amongst us: Would the results of today's vFMR be listed on any of the forums like ZwiftPower.com? How would one go about getting a ride like the vFMR listed?

[cbusick]

I posted the results on facebook and discord based on the fly-by. There is some grumbling about fly-by inaccuracy again.

01 0:00 Nate K 13:14
02 0:06 Chris Pare
03 0:41 DJ Skinnyphat
04 0:41 N Blundell
05 0:47 Brad Walker
06 0:49 Chris Busick
07 0:49 Guido De Vries
08 0:49 Steve Clements
09 1:24 Aaron Katin
10 1:48 Jillis Mani
11 1:49 Brian Alpher
12 1:50 Tom Pincince
13 2:10 Kevin Teves
14 2:14 Sergio Agostinho
15 2:26 Pete Wilson
16 2:31 Fredrik Wånelid
17 2:31 Ha Young Park
18 2:40 Midge Gaskin
19 2:43 Daniel Goldman
20 2:56 Mark Bernard
21 3:05 Simon Lyon
22 3:14 Tim Fowler
23 3:14 Simon Donoghue
24 3:22 Alan Hamilton
25 3:26 志豪Howard 陳
26 3:31 Richard Sberlati
27 3:49 Kieron Salt
28 4:17 Josh Merchant

DQ -1:01 Jay Howes Fly by shows him ahead at box hill start and even Jay was questioning his watts
DQ 0:45 Serrafim Ahead of leader at box hill start
DQ 0:53 연진 　#.# Ahead of leader at box hill start
DQ 1:02 Grant Paterson Ahead of leader at box hill start
DQ 1:33 Alex Wiseman Ahead of leader at box hill start

[KTeves]

I may be wrong, but if the start of Harmsworth Park is the start of the KOM then everyone in front of Chris (red arrow pointing to his location) is DQ'd. Just sayin'

[Fintan]

From Nate's screenshot I think the go go go came after this point (mile 13.8).

[cbusick]

I think it's just before you cross Lambeth road after the park.
But you also have to filter out all the people who weren't in the event.
At that piont there were only 5 people ahead of me.

[cbusick]

Arrgggh. Nate's screenshot shows Jay Howes is clearly behind me as well at the start of box.
I give up. I sent an email to the zwiftpower administrator to see what we have to do.

[jraguin]

You are doing the best you can Chris. Thanks for doing it.