Didn’t pay much attention when I posted the link for tomorrow’s quartet, but just noticed we are heading down the mostly dirt descent from the Road To Sky start pen in two different races…
Once heading right at the first junction and then taking a left into the jungle Mayan section for an uphill finish before it returns to the main jungle circuit (race 1)
Then later turning left at the first junction, going over the bridge and then descending onto the flat sprint approach to finish at the lap banner (race 4).
It’s marginal these days since ZwiftHW nerfed the advantage gravel bikes/wheels have on gravel compared to road setups a few months ago, but I wonder if especially the heavier racers in each pen will be tempted to grab the Cervelo Aspero (the most aero gravel frame I believe) and any gravel wheelset (all same performance now I believe) to get away from the peleton by doing a hard TT effort way before the finishes?
It is pretty much the same in C pen where the A+ rider, having a ridiculous ZRS score, smashed the field with 5 W/kg.
Edit: He can contact me and I will give him a free consultation in our sport laboratory or a discounted complete metabolic profile test for 99 EUR so that he knows his true abilities.
5mins being part of the power seeding score would have a fair few boosted this morning in race 1, but the leaders didn’t even race the whole course for 10mins and their scores didn’t get the boost they deserve from the quartet of results.
Even the winners in pen E zone 1 race 1 didn’t take 10mins in total, but 5mins being part of the make up of the power seeding score would have seen a number get a deserved score boost.
As it is, provisionally, those that did well over the quartet in pen E didn’t break the 300 threshold.
it says 382 for the winner and 321 for p2. anyway, podium bonuses and stuff are going to be enabled next week, according to the latest zrs update notes
I wondered if it was possible for Race 1 to have everyone go off at the same time (e.g. 10:00) then in Race 2 the pens are separated by 1 minute (A at 10:15, B at 10:16 … E at 10:19), then Race 3 has 2 minutes gaps between pens and Race 4 has 3 min gaps. That way the A’s always have 15 minutes to race and then recover before starting the next one, but the lower categories get one minute more each, down to the E’s getting 19 minutes.
I don’t do the Tinies very often but I know the pressure of racing them as a low D or an E seeing that the timer is already at 13 minutes since Race 3 started and you’re still not quite at the finish line yet, while other riders are already waiting in Race 4’s pen.
