B Cat ZWIFT Racing - How Much Faster Is It Than a C Cat Race?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ม.ค. 2023
- Zwift Racing is HARD but are B Cat Zwift Races that much faster than C Cat Zwift Race? I should be a B racer on Zwift by the end of the month so to make sure I have a GC time in the B cat for this Zrcing Series. I want to see if I can hang with the B's to register a time. Welcome to the January ZRacing Monthly Series! Get ready to fly through the month with some of the flattest stages Zwift has to offer. Stage 1 goes down Jan 3 - 8, with a lap on one of Zwift’s flattest courses: Tick Tock. #ZwiftRacing #ZwiftRace #Zwifter
FULL Zwift Livestream here • ZRacing STAGE 1: FLAT ... or race vids below
C RACE: STAGE 1: FLAT IS FAST-Tick Tock (C)
FULL RACE VIDEO: • 400+ RIDERS ZRacing ST...
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B RACE: STAGE 1: FLAT IS FAST-Tick Tock (B)
FULL RACE VIDEO: • Can a CAT C Zwift Ride...
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Watch John Buckshot Buckman's Vid here • Fastest Race on Zwift
The ZRacing Monthly Series features weekly events with a general classification (GC) that resets every month-so race your way onto the leaderboards! Complete all 5 stages, including a special two-part race in the final stage, to earn yourself the “Flat is Fast” badge.
Dates: Jan 3rd - 8th 2023
World: Watopia
Route: Tick Tock
Laps: 1
Distance: 19.22 km
Elevation: 53 m
PowerUps are: Aero & Draft
Category enforcement will place you in a race category with riders of similar ability for these events. More info about category enforcement can be found below.
FLAT IS FAST GC
Compete in all 6 races (including stages 5a and 5b) during January as a general classification (GC) challenge and shoot for your best combined time over the month! You can improve your time for any event by racing it more than once. Only your best time will count towards your overall standing. - กีฬา
Should I Start Racing in the B's? Subscribe www.youtube.com/@TheZwifter?sub_confirmation=1 and let me know below. Thanks
You look better in 💙
I love it. A friendly season battle between Scott and John for this winter for all of us to enjoy. Some friendly banter on your TH-cam channels, perhaps a meet up where you can thumb and arm wrestle. Can't wait to watch.
Better tell him to bring some Candy… as I’m taking that off him too 😂😂👍👍👍
Nice touch with the side-by-side video👌
So I need to make up 14 seconds already, that's gonna be tough on flat routes 🤣
Might need to avoid the Tour De Zwift on Monday to get the fastest group. Not 100% sure I can stay with the pack on the next one though. Bit draggy
forgot, excellent video, having the C & B race sidebyside 👌
Thank you 👍👍
nice comparison of the graphs , higher intensity in the B cat , more tempo and Zone 2 in C cat , espacially in the ocean tunnel and on the false flat towards the desert
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Great video. Followed a similar journey. Though have now been upgraded to B!
Cheers, mate. Might see you in a B race soon then 👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@TheZwifter I was in that one! That was a tough one
Ahhh brilliant! Sure was, my legs are still feeling it. If they feel ok tomorrow then I might try the A race - probably won't be as fast as our B race with the numbers but see if I can hold on for the desert drag
We're straight up on the same wavelength... Was planning to do this in A Cat last night and see "How much faster is A Cat" LOLOLOLOL Kid fell asleep early so jumped into Sand and Sequoias x2 instead.
👏🥳🥳🥳 There's still time BUT you still need to improve your GC time for stage one in the B's too... you can't have a big "C" beating you on GC 😉
@@TheZwifter Unfortunately I can’t get on during the day this week when I have an actual chance. GC is yours, I want the YT race title 😆 The hardest part is finding a route that keeps everyone happy 🤔 I want hills and climbs, you want none of that LOL
@@DontGetDroppedCycling maybe some neokyo route which includes rooftop , it isnt a long climb
@@TheZwifter to be fair , and Michael Haran has a point here , the blob size makes a huge difference , european prime time vs canadian go to bed time works in our favor. BTW the guy Boni took 1st in the ITT casses pattes and jumped right into that race finishing 14th , i wouldnt be able to do that
@@DontGetDroppedCycling Join SZR midweek this evening. Lots of what you ask for :-) Hire a nanny to look after your kid 🙂
I think you'll progress more racing b how ever it gets demoralising racing for 40th out of 45 quite alot but I'm same as you AVE 3.17 still race b for the extra push. When I mentioned about dirt and tfc mad Monday it was because tfc do races at 3wkg/3.4 cats and dirt low b 3.2/3.6 where it would be a good transition to b. Glad u beat John just to make him no his place 😉😂
😂😂👏👏🥳 thanks matey, will definitely look at those. I wish ZRacing had their first race of each stage on a Friday to free up Monday’s (Tuesday this week for one week only)
I'm forced to ride B but just because I'm super light...my ftp is like 240/4.15 and I feel like I'd 100% get dropped in these flat races while irl it's not THAT hard to follow the pack
Yes, it's not quite right is it with that. In our local club I once held 600w infront front of the smallest rider, I did slowly ramp up the effort but they managed to hold onto the wheel for the duration and then on the other foot, climbs like titans or the run-up to the segment I know I could hang with a higher w\kg group with the rollers but on Zwift it's waaaaay too hard.
Time for B
I’m 98Kg (was 118kg) and dip between C and B on ZP but auto cat B. From watching this you are basically in my position and C would be nice for ego but B is probably where we belong 🤮
If you raced an hour before and then go up a category and beat John Buckshot Buckman... What do you think 🤔
D’s?
@@TheZwifter yeah right... See you there 👍
That's weird, because I have power/speed profiles from several B and C races where the starts in C are harder than the B starts and really only end up slower overall because C fields are shred to pieces because the front group is so decimated. In fact the big difference in time was the B front field was larger than C front field by almost 2.5 by the time you hit 3km with over 2x the size of the entire B field in C. B races are easy until they are hard, C races are just plain hard from the gun.
Strange you say that as that's what I've found before... mainly raced on Crit City when I used to be a B but yes. B's would settle down faster and not go as hard. Maybe people in this race wanted to do some damage and try to make it hard in the B's from the start so it blunted the legs for the lighter riders on the drag out of the desert?
@@TheZwifter I am not crazy enough to do both races back to back, but I did my B race last night and it was easier in B than C up until the last 2-3km. I messed up the sprint would have had an outside chance at the podium instead I ended up leading out the field sprint in B getting 7th thinking I could go where I went in my C race.
Nice work! How did the times compare between the two?
@@TheZwifter 48s faster in B about 15W more in B overall. The cross over with power happens about 3 minutes in. First 2 minutes was 15W more in C, at 90s it was 26W and at 60s 38W. Same front group size at around 35 racers in 60 racer fields.
On this "Flat is Fast," I think you could probably hang in there with the A's, if you have fresh legs. Your HULK-sprint will ensure you will get at least midpack. You are way beyond C since long time ago and the only reason you don't easily win every C race is because there's some other +90kg sprinters guys also "chilling" in C. Chill, chill, chill, SPRINT. No C-race will ever take you to B on ZP or catEnf, unless you reduce bodyweight to some 60 kg, unless you go on early attacks and murder the races solo 🙂 If you want to be stronger, race B. I race B, so that one day, hopefully I end up as mid or strong B before I die of a stroke 🙂 But you do what is most fun for you 👍
Spot on with that 👍👍 yeah, the idea was to race a critty critty bang bang all-cat race to push that limit into the B’s but I think I’ll just start racing more B’s and it will just happen. Someone said before I’m an A cat Crit racer and a D climber haha 😂 my weight goal is 88kg by September so maybe I could eventually finish mid pack in a B slightly hilly race haha
A, B, C it doesn't matter, he's a bigger rider, but A and B races won't necessarily push him up to B level ZP fitness as the hard part of those races is super hard for most of us heavy sprinters in C and you can hardly chill in C anymore with 3.6 wkg ZP B's who CE C's pushing the pace at the gun. I have been doing B races for a year, but never really get pushed past my 3.0 wkg in either for 20 minutes and it usually takes Harrogate UCI or Crit City races to do that.
@@TheZwifter You are spot on with All Cat races or crit city races to push you to the limit.
@@sprenten1 Not necessarily but most certainly. Scott been racing C's like alot, ending up at podium at many but have no race last 90 days reaching 3.2 wkg. Average 3.02 wkg. It's true that racing B or A won't necessarily make one become B or A but the likelihood is bigger, especially if you're a strong heavy rider with a positive trend. What is odd though is that in Scotts last B race, his avg wkg (3.3) is higher than his 20min wkg (3.2). Use to be the other way around. I have not a single race where my 20min wkg is lower than my avg wkg. Looking at the C's with best rankings, they're all either very young and/or light weight or fairly heavy (+85kg). In B and A, it's more difficult to be heavy than in C, because many have beast fitness/aerobic/anaerobic capacity. Scott is young and strong, he can do it, if he wants to. I'm old, light and a mediocre sprinter so no matter where I race, I have to go bananas. But it's good workout for me 🙂