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Cheers, yeah it's mainly an issue of finding the time for commentary videos but I will try and do some in the future.

110"

I use a 55/13 for most races (55/15 for miss and outs etc).

Ok thanks

I'm using Garmin VIRB Edit. It's pretty clunky these days, but it works.

@@stevemayes Thanks, I'll try it.

Glad to be back out there.

I don't think it was the pedal, I think my wheels started grinding against the curb. I broke the carbon seat stay in 2 places and the wheels were mashed up.

I've basically been going for progressively bigger and bigger gears as I've experimented. For better or worse I've found from indoor training that my peak torque when sprinting is around 80rpm to 90rpm, and I spin out at around 115rpm, whereas most of the people I'm riding against seem to go up to around 130rpm, so without a bigger gear I can't compete. I'm sure real track riders and coaches would be screaming that I should just do more high cadence training, but at my age, I'm not sure the returns would be worth it when my power profile is more suited to going long anyway.

I crashed on the penultimate lap so pretty sure I was the last in that race, but that was definitely the crash hotspot on the course.

Arse, sorry to hear that. Well between us we have a healthy rider and a working bike.

Cheers, fortunately, I got off lightly. My bike wasn't so lucky though.

Cheers, sadly I was pretty cold as you can judge from the fact I hadn't noticed there was no power reading coming from the bike 🥶

Rage quit on the line!

Let's just say there was a lot of internal conflct going on for that first 60 seconds.

Cheers, no idea what was going on with the Kickr bike, but bizarrely turning the tilt setting off and on again fixed it.

@@stevemayes Off and on again works for most things!

Cheers, yeah hopefully I'll get one or two more vids done when I've got something to say. Good luck with race and stay safe!

@@stevemayes nice! That would be fantastic. And thanks! I'm pumped and looking forward to race day 👏🏾

The inside opened up nicely for me on the previous lap so I thought I'd try it again, but I definitely got a bit lucky when that attack went.

Thanks John.

Yeah I was with you until we got pulled....lesson learned

I'm so glad I remembered that rule. I've wasted so much energy in the past trying to catch back up.

Yeah, by the time I finished sprinting I was in Watopia.

Sure, but only on the downhills.

Cheers, I was starting to get a little worried myself but fortunately the guy behind blew up before me.

Good luck and stay safe!

Thanks. I'm using a 55/13 in this race which is bigger than most people would use, but yeah I'd think your gearing is way too small for a scratch race at least, I think you want 90" at a bare minimum (www.bikecalc.com/gear_inches)

Cheers, yeah I was so focused on the postitioning that I forgot about the corner 🥺

Thanks for doing it in front of the camera 👍

Thanks. Before I started IRL racing I was basically doing about 5 short Zwift races a week. When I started the IRL stuff I knew that stamina would be my problem, so I switched to a weekly program of a long gentle IRL ride, a longer Zwift race, which I knew I'd suck at, and 1 or 2 short races that I'd do well in, to massage the ego. For video equipment, I use 2 GoPro 10s and a combination of Virb Edit and OpenShot Video editor.

@@stevemayes ah nice. A zwift isn't in my future at the moment, but I'm lifting with a coach and doing HIIT sessions in my garage over the winter. I'm hoping that will be enough to put in a good first showing at the track next year. Also food to know about the camera and software. If I can swing it it would be cool to record my first races the same way 🙂

Yeah, apparently that's part of the fun.

This was great. Thanks again Steve! I especially appreciate the parts where you pause and explain the decisions you could make at a particular part. Especially the reasoning behind your positioning for the final lap. I wouldn't have thought about overlapping slightly to protect your sprint lane at the end just from watching the video, so it was great to hear that explained out 🙌🏽 And great job on the win :)

To be fair, I've fallen off my kickr bike before.

It was an interesting new challenge, but yeah I wouldn't do it again with at least 28mm tires. Actually the hardest part was the wind, on one part of the back straight I was literally having to use my entire upper body strength to keep the bike straight.

Yeah, the only damage was to my pride, a load of skin and my wallet (new speed suit required).

@@stevemayes glad u ok- ish. That turn is not forgiving so you got best case scenario.👍

Yeah fun races, but definately a different challenge from normal.

What’s a snowball race. Similar to points race?

@@p44doyle44 yeah, it's a points race where the points you get are equal to the lap count. So 1st lap is worth 1 point, 2nd lap is worth 2 points and so on...

@@stevemayes I like that way better than just pints.

@@p44doyle44 Well pints every lap would definately be different type of challenge.