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Was there only one water bottle bount on the bike?

Set your TD lower my friend or use your gears more to spin. 250 is very respectable. No matter what your TD you still have to put the same power to get up the mountain.

Great job, man! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Great video sir! Also, the best advice for newbies is to NEVER LOOK DOWN on the pedal when clipping in and out, you must practice muscle memory while stationary, and in that way, you never lose sight of what is ahead of you. There are multi-release cleats too like the SH56 of Shimano, it is super beginner-friendly also. Just have the presence of mind and always anticipate your stop and unclip ahead. If you think there's traffic buildup, stoplights, intersections, or just about anything that might slow you down always unclip ahead, then if you can see all is clear to go just clip in again. One day it will become second nature and you won't even notice your foot clips in and out just automatically. Enjoy and ride safe! Cheers.

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can you use the XTU S6 as a webcam for zoom calls etc. ???

You've motivated me to see where I will be at the beginning of May. Thanks for sharing your experiences on your great channel.

Best wishes on the new job and getting your goals in line. I totally get the pressure we put on ourselves to do TH-cam stuff, and how that robs us of time & energy we need to spend doing life stuff. I’ll miss watching your vids, but will drop all the kudos I can in Strava and the socials. Hope everything goes well, you smash your goals, and get comfortable in the new career! We’ll see you when we see you, and can’t wait to hear what you’ve worked on!

Well done on everything you've achieved so far and best of luck with the new job. You've been an inspiration to me with my own weight loss and fitness goals!

Congratulations on a great 2024 and good luck with the Dragon Ride training, enjoy the break!

All the best mate !

2024 was a great year for you….well done great kudos for the half Ironman. Keep the focus and you’ll smash the Dragon Ride…..that’s a massive one. I’m starting my triathlon journey and like you am confident with running and biking….so the start of 2025 is all about nailing the swimming. Good luck in the new job and look forward to seeing you back in March

Well done on all and weight loss . Great year young man.

See you at The Dragon Ride

Really liked following your channel. Looking forward to hearing about the Dragon Ride as I’d like to attempt it one day! 😊

Well done for 2024, great efforts and committment by you; and yey, take some time out - we will still be here when you come back :-)

Are you still racing the ZRL ?

What industry do you work in ?

Happy new year Jarrod! Enjoyed you videos over the last year. You achievements have been inspiring for me. Wishing you all the best with your new job

Thank you Jarrod, you're an inspiration. Looking forward to catch up in the spring :-)

Best wishes for 2025 and good luck with your new job. I always enjoyed your content. take as much time as you need. Ride on 👍💪

Enjoy your time off YT Jarrod, seems like a healthy thing to do. I've enjoyed your content and I'm looking forward to catching up with again in the future. Oh, - did you get a new trainer for Christmas? :)

Good luck and hope to see you back on you tube in May. The Dragon ride would be an awesome achievement. I remember "stumbling" across it when on holiday in Wales last year. When I looked it up, I remember thinking I would never be able to complete it and I am 65 kg. My excuse is I'm old! Anyway, best wishes For the future Jarrod

GG on the year and very reasonable decision to pause the TH-cam thing while you settle in.

Congratulations on your achievements last year Jarrod. Happy New Year mate :)

J. Great Job and thanks for all your help keeping me motivated with the challenges and race videos.

Enjoy your break. Have a great 2025

HNY A monthly check in might be a decent idea? Don't ditch all the accountability :D You've peaked my interest and I've joined a team for next ZRL - LEQP ZinZins hopefully will give my fitness a boost

I really have enjoyed following you and wish you the best in 2025. I’m confident you will have another great year and I look forward to the updates later in the spring. I enjoyed your channel more for your personality. The content may be similar, but not stale in my opinion. Good luck with the new content, Dragon Ride and the weight loss. Cheers.

Cheers !!! Happy new year. Good luck on your new job and for the dragon ride challenge as well reaching 84kg. Great things to come. No worries that you can't post nothing during that time.

Good luck with the break and the challenges - look forward to seeing how you’ve done later in the year. Peace out!😊

Hope you rest well and hit your goals for the year

I've enjoyed watching your journey to physical fitness, and its brilliant that you're understanding that fitness of the mind is equally (if not more) important. Must have been a big decision to take a break - I'm sure I'm saying on behalf of the community that follow you that we're proud you've made the concious decision to do this. Good Luck on the Dragon Ride!

Basically you get an extra second of free watts if you stop/start. Some obsessives think this is the most egrerious form of cheating on Zwift.

NICE JOB!!!

Thank you for the detailed information

Hope all is well Jarrod and you are just enjoying the holiday season. I didn’t see that you completed your Alpe attempt and haven’t seen an update and I sure hope all is well with you. All the best in 2025.

Nice video. I am thinking of upgrading stock wheelset to DT Swiss GR 1600. Can you share a bit more about your experience using DT Swiss GR1600 wheelset after few months of usage? Thank you.

Awesome video, mate! Considering going 35mm myself but beside all that... Loved you showing the English gravel routes GCN will never show us! That looked painful to say the least!

Got the same one but just wondering how much better the more expensive one is

I've been accused of this too. I use power meter pedals and there is a delay in my increased efforts registering in Zwift wattage, and if I make a hard stop pedalling for 3s, the last displayed wattage does stick for a couple of seconds, before dropping to 0. But, when I start pedalling again, there is again a momentary delay before the increase registers. As long as you aren't getting too many 'flat tops' on your profile, i wouldn't worry about it. And even if you do, WTL uses AI to detect excessive sticky watts and can DQ you, so no DSQ = no cheating, imo. It can also be a big disadvantage, like in a TTT where you are getting murdered trying to hold position in the rotation. Like others have said I'm trying to keep pedalling all the time and not 'microburst'. There will always be whiners accusing people of cheating. Trainers vary massively in power accuracy and it's amazing how light race winners tend to be. In the A category it's not unusual to see 50.0kg riders doing 6w/kg and soloing to victory.

People and nature in general always find the path of least resistance. You stumbled upon sticky watts and started taking advantage of it sub/semi-consciously. What you are doing is definitely "bad manners" and you should stop doing it by continuing to soft-pedal over the crest. Don't blame the equipment, don't make excuses. You don't need to apologize, you just need to stop doing it.

Who rides like this in real life? Sprint, coast, sprint, coast. Pedal normal and the problem is solved.

That was 100% sticky Watts. Easy way to make sure it doesn't happen, don't instantly stop pedalling. It always causes the game to carry on with your power at the point you stopped. It is easy to tell if you have sticky Watts. Look at the graph of your power, if it shows flat spots on the top, you have sticky Watts. Saying this, I just looked through the power graphs of your last few races and only these points in this race show those tell tale flat spots repeated, so it is fairly obvious that you arent gaming the system repeatedly on purpose. 😊😊 But.... just make sure you don't keep doing it as it deftinately gains an advantage. The people here saying it is fine are wrong, it really isn't.

My Stages SB20 used to be bad for this. Switched to a Neobike and never had sticky warts again. So it can be equipment related.

I really enjoy watching your videos! I've noticed the sticky watts in a few of them before. I don't think you're doing it on purpose, so I don't consider it cheating. It would be a good idea to work on not doing it to improve your Zwifting skills!

I was accused of the same thing! I would coast to get a bit of rest. I had clue it was considered cheating, I was just tired! 🤷🏻‍♂️😂