Simon, Shane and Nathan are back with another of the weekly round-ups of all matters Zwifty.
The podcasters kick off with a brief discussion on the Ineos Weekend – and the loss of the legendary First Attempt-Very Intens Strava segment, thanks to the ride logging app’s clean-up.
Owen Newbury talks about his awesome scheme to project Zwift on the side of his house, then the chaps have a light hearted discussion on whether Zwift CEO was “caught” sandbagging before Zwift Insider’s Eric Schlange gives his reaction to the early tests of the measures.
There’s further discussion of the Ineos events and streams before an interview with Keith Jardine who was taken by surprise when the police were called to him Zwifting in his garden shed.
Finally Simon talks to acclaimed ride leader Sharron Yaxley on passing her 100,000kms on Zwift milestone.
We hope you enjoy listening.
Hi guys,
this is really good idea but could I also suggest as races generally have a lead in into the course before you pass the start point but often on a road race this often a neutralised section before the race starts but I have found that the race starts from the gate so there is no chance of a fair start or even keeping in touch with a lead group in your category.
is there some way of introducing the fence up to the actual start gate then releasing racers after the lead in section has reached the start of the course.
whichever you guys have introduced a great app for bike riders whatever the level.
cheers
gary
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I’ve just listened to this edition and was struck by your comments relating to the Ineos race being more watchable than regular zwift racing – a statement with which I totally agree.
Where we differ slightly however, was you believe it was due to the number of racers involved which was significantly lower than normal.
Personally I think you probably underplayed the importance of the selected route. Too many Zwift races are flat, or at best flat-ish, drag races of limited duration which favour a particular type of rider and which have relatively little room for tactics.
Until the parcours and duration ends up being more varied I’m not sure why people will continue to watch what is effectively the same race week in week out.
The crit circuit is a complete waste of time in that the dynamics are nowhere close to real crit racing – instead of it being a sketchy series of decelerations followed by hard accelerations the lack of braking (and crashing) on zwift just means it’s the same sustained high effort.
I also believe introducing a more varied parcours would have anti-sandbagging implications in terms of helping prevent people “tuning” their weight. You can’t be 85kg on Monday to race a flat drag-race within your w/kg category and also 55kg on Wednesday when you’re racing a mountain TT or whatever.
Let’s see what happens when series organisers start adding two lap race of the four horsemen or whatever into the mix.
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