Tour de Zwift Stage 3- Epic Race – Makuri 40

Not feeling “epic” in the past few days, but a Tour de Zwift Race is something I can’t miss

Hello good morning if you’re in Europe like myself uh Sunday morning to the Swift epic race stage three we at m 40 uh yeah it’s been a week with some muscle problems some up and down in performance so I’m curious how this thing will go now r on r on on but yeah

Um we’ll give it a try and see where this thing goes let hope things are Working at least it looks like That things Ready 45 seconds to go I’m let’s say half warmed up a bit uh yeah ride on let’s see Sorry 20 seconds to go so five and and on daring good morning my friend let’s see if I’m ready happy Sunday to do to you too um I’m not so sure about the the outfit Choice Here do I get dropped the me stage free the mury 4 it Is Yeah I know you love this R I have mixed feelings about it but yeah thanks it will be For For for for yeah I need to do it Hey morning to Norway hey my [Applause] friend For for what I feel with this routed it should be better warmed up really with the star climb so I should have warmed up more get the shoots tight before start well now it’s getting smoother Darren what are your plans for today also it racing or having a day

Off or just training which is probably not a bad idea that’s a good idea I mean you see it with me you know this is not getting off on time we always pay some price I skipped the tinier races yesterday but yeah oh Christian when you doing it

Later today or I mean for sure but what’s the time you plan to do it yeah sound too good idea I guess that’s the right tactic you know you got family there in charge of your Timetable ten is cool I hope indoors I mean for sure E yeah it is so my main thing is I hope the C muscle will be like good that’s the main thing and then we’ll see what the rest of my legs think about that uh about how to perform yeah I know Darren I like it I like it basically Al very much at

The The First beginning I didn’t like it at all and now it feels quite good but for me really just the there’s not like one 2 kilomet before the first time uh to roll in it’s really missing for me but I mean that’s the right with this head I don’t

Know the fashion Choice reminds me of like a series my kids like to watch Dora the Explorer was like Aon for children and I think that’s kind of something some had like this and they were exploring things or was it a different Kona might mix up things [Applause]

Wish I like that they do now the T swifted races on the weekend too so because I mean of course the let a normal to the Swift group right many people race it uh but yeah I used them as a easy R I did yesterday which R did I do think the

Rolling Highland something like that um so the cut B I mean not from the race C be but from the length of is I did it as a like sun to R uh so I ended up like 230 out of 250 but didn’t matter because I was not going for it and

Uh yeah so I I prefer to know what I’m up to r or group right I know that the people that say everything on switch is race and yeah I did that Al but I need some some uh easier rights or some training RS tool that’s why I would and

Really do the group rights it’s group rights yeah I mean with with swift power that’s a thing I mean I try to tell myself to maybe try to hear a little bit less about the numbers on Swift power and so on it’s easier set than done yeah I mean I really

Stopped trying to to do anything about the category whenever I’m in B and I’m quite positive that it will happen at some point then I’ll be in be yeah t doesn’t matter with two or three teeth it’s just something I really don’t like but could be Darren I really don’t

Know I saw this week how fragile my body sometimes reacts I mean like was like from performance level horrible yeah there was the cough muscle but uh much more it was this feeling fatigue back I had in October early November which then came with kind of a sudden

Uh like manal tiredness of it you know body feel like every effort is hard and then your your head polish your brain polish and it’s a sparrow love for me where I never know know how to Daren you did so many crazy things this week with the frr first 3.8 FTP crazy congrats

Man I’m toast yeah that’s that’s so important and I mean you know I sometimes really struggle on a mental level to keep a balance between being like excited over the top and then kicked out out this so easily and it’s just all in here but yeah this community just helps

Yeah I mean doing the Breakaway doing the nut swing I think it’s a good thing at the end you train yourself you know you push yourself so I don’t see anything bad in that I would do that you know if I could at some point or I mean

If I’m not if I’m result focused I drop and if here today I’m happy to keep the group might sound bit strange but uh yeah it’s how my life feel this week a thing with this group and I’ll be happy I know you would cool which Trace did you do yesterday

Sorry if I don’t have it in my head like trying to keep up with the r this but sometimes work it’s in the way they’re going the Breakaway 7.5 in the middle of but you can do that but that’s great you know yeah that’s the ideal tactic yeah I mean

Especially if the people don’t know you guys working together so great yeah sure no that’s a it’s a great tactic and it’s great to do things like that I think you need like two really good riders for that like yourself can initiate this whole thing and then all to bring it

Home for example today in this race here doesn’t matter what would happen I couldn’t Doch I know that Daren that’s really great about you I know that you’re willing to help the other guys of the team and yeah with the Sprint I mean I like this week showed me um how much the Sprint actually like like on on a personal level on

Myself uh how much it comes down to Sprint because with the cough muscle was just no way I could Sprint and so you know when you finish your races 5 67 watt print there’s just no way to at least on the flat to take something yeah I think that’s

True I understand that there in and I think like for you it’s really about getting the right you know the right race just a fact you know it’s like yeah right I mean I I haven’t uploaded did did yet I one yesterday the Z racing flat is

Fast and there was a 105 kill guy from Australia he attacked like 2 kilom out man he was like pushing numbers and I just stood uh I just yeah stay behind him in the draft and at the end he didn’t really Sprint hard I didn’t see him later on with power so

Probably that’s why he didn’t care but yeah I want it and we got like I don’t know 15 seconds or something like that on the field with one right in the middle like just pushing numbers and yeah Darren for you I think you know it’s the hill CL stuff the time

Trap uh and I wouldn’t see this as anything bad you know anything less work uh because you look in professional sports doesn’t matter cycling running whatever cross country skiing Alpine skiing yeah take Alpine skiing because I’m in Austria the guys who do the downhill they are 95 kilo 100 kilos sometimes of

Pure muscle packages but in the slom they would have no chance against the you know Marcel hire back in the day guy who was still a quite a super strong guy around 80 kilos but yeah just little different moving or running yoring there the spring

Put you and Bol on the 5K run against you know yakob in brickson too use Norway in this example uh no chance for him the other way around too I mean to find your Niche that’s I thinking business in life you know and then sorts the right thing to

Do and I know my Sprint is quite good so I will not never have the huge monster Sprint I mean the probably I don’t know know there 15 watts per kilo like RT can do but in most races that I do it’s about doing solid around and above 10 Kil in the 15

Seconds and that’s when my muscles are okay I can do quite easily yeah yeah and it’s like with swift of course if the Z racing is you know flat and fast a FL is fast it doesn’t have Daren written over it you know that’s something

For yeah more a guy like me uh people like Peter our Dutch super Sprinter and our Rob pushing numbers Christian who I think has won twice this week just the power Sprint it’s the power Sprint and having the numbers in your category to stay on the last two three

Kilomet quite in the top of the group and uh yeah without getting your hydrate too high so I don’t know I mean I guess normally I am if if you take my highest number if you take the 11.9 so my best ever uh 15 seconds Val you the last 90 days than I

Am uh I’m not sure what I can do today that’s really uh different question but I SC you the stream only like I don’t know 3 minutes before I started in the bike you know just to you know of course uh share this race with you guys

And keep myself accountable also by that you know yeah I think Daren uh it’s raining I mean I think yeah it’s first of all look on what I did now when I felt bad and I still wanted to Z racing streak to continue I was really looking on Swift

Power live data and see who are the guys with the big numbers and then really focus on that cuz they are and know they are pushing at the end but I mean I think with you it’s a you need a different kind of Sprint than I do or then Christian

Does you need a longer Sprint you need this I don’t know wild fun art style uh attacks or this kilara type when they go a kilometer or two beforehand and the group is in the middle of like thinking do they want to follow you or not and this weak

Moment of the field I think that’s the moment you need to go yes it’s very the Isis that uh people come down after you and uh you get overtaken and you landed over but I think it’s a much better like chance for you uh yeah mvdp mature hpol that’s right you know

And I mean the the other thing is like uh to be just like with you with your um with your one arm problem problem your disability to say you know it’s like I’m I’m amazed how you can push the numbers you push uh and I think if you would want to go for

Sprint po you would need something I don’t know if it’s a realistic option is to like really strap your uh one arm to the uh to the steering or something that you can like really pull pull pull because that’s what we all do who spring

Part we pull with the whole body and if you should pull with the with the ls it’s just like it’s unfortunately then a you know a thing you have to overcome that is hard to overcome so but I would mainly focus on the mat Stell you

Know CR on this like three five 3 minutes 5 minutes Hour 2 minutes hour you know in this range because even you know if someone goes with you yesterday um I had like I was really not sure if I will be able to you know Sprint at the

End because I was pushing so hard on the flat you know and if you can do five minute power boosts on the level other of T they will be good you know even if they stay with you so you bring down their numbers by fatiguing them in the

Race yeah with also what you should I think could do really plan the tiny races uh I think this like power boost relax power boost relaxing not not for the results probably the timey races will not be good for you with the result because it’s very Sprint

Focused but I think it’s a the great training for the five Minutes the thing that helped me most with the Sprint and the results in the last really good weeks was like getting up to 5 minutes power cuz I was yeah in my really great or great in my really best races um like when I won the set racing with 200

People you know I was able to stick in the front part of the group The Last 2 kilometers with lety not EAS but much easier than it would have been before and that helped me then be ready for the Sprint so I don’t know what my hard R

First to I can sure you I done 125 another something wrong so I don’t know if I get disqualified just to show it I’m wearing the yeah I mean yeah let’s do that the one two maybe never did this I once tried it and then got cramping super

Hard in the middle and dropped out so for for e by the way Daren I think like about this rout that’s the Sprint you want I guess because it’s with the uphill part and it’s long enough uphill for for for For yes I am I’m on the ship still not sure uh direct connection it is I’m an aric what you said yesterday the very end of the light stream to RT I think describes it perfect just saw it I came back to the stream just after

You have ended the race and I was like rewatching the last kilometer or so and feels so much smoother uh for me it feels a the moment less responsive even though I had not race mode on on the V5 and it feels you for me it feels harder to push you know

But I played around with the virtual shifting and I think now I figured out how to and I think I have to the right uh setup H basically but yeah we’ll see it’s Al hard to say you know when your body overall feels like not uh not the best then everything that

Changes in your setup doesn’t have beer so yeah we’ll see getting used to things really like this this change from my Audi A3 diesel Sports B which was the car I left which had over 300,000 kilomet until someone crashed in me uh and yeah there worth no no way to

Repair the car anymore and it was worth phasically financially nearly nothing no not nothing like less than this bike but yeah anyway and then I got a Tesla and it’s it’s like really a different feeling to drive and here it’s a different feeling to right yeah with the gearing I played

Around really with I have now a 5034 uh and uh back is 10 30 33 or something like that uh so I have a 12 C that on the back on the virtual shifting I tried it with like one uh only but yeah uh I don’t know what the S update I have

It on automatically so I guess I have it good I don’t know Swift off for me the main thing is is to have the numbers inside whenever I want to see them I mean withth the streaming I think it’s I mean as long as you’re not trying

To make this into a business just do how you do it of course uh listen to the feedback and see what other people do but I mean if I would be now on not the 100 Subs with the Thousand Subs maybe then I would think more about that in

Detail but I think if I enjoy my race people will hopefully enjoy Wy me I think I need to just get this H monitor I have from gin on again CU this one from all over the place I didn’t have 170 before and not on 125 now I

Guess I think Daren with the streams it’s also as long as our channels like quite small let’s see uh you know the numbers will jump around it will jump up and down and so there are many factors that might uh play into that so I think you need quite some high

Numbers to make the stat sta istics are really that relevant so but I think you’re doing a good job so and with my channel for example it was like always the subscriptions were coming in a package and then much less um plan is to survive unfortunately I’m for h he e e e

For for for e h yeah a bit over 3 kilm here you go quite something don’t follow this these too unfortunately for For I think we will not catch him I’m not pushing cuz I simply can’t today yeah it’s super strong and I would try to you know R whatever I get you he’s 12 seconds set I mean if he doesn’t die on the on the last bum up

Yeah but I think the climb is not long enough that let’s say the weight is an issue for him 13 seconds 14 now if he would push through and congrats to him a week ago I would have gone with him and not today no no for for [Applause] he yeah thanks

Man it’s all I had today I mean it’s not that bad but it’s far from where I was like 10 days ago yeah I me six SP out of 80 something all C thanks d uh I didn’t feel it at all in the race I feel like there’s a little bit tension left

Just uh in this part of the uh of the muscle yeah I don’t know feels like R just Uh in parel use of my muscles in the last days due to the cough issue yeah make it like the my body is now a little bit aching and the likea uh not where they should be or where they was where they were a week yeah week ago thday evening last

Week when I W the tinest I mean next day finished second in the to the Swift race with at that point over 200 people that’s when I felt like whoa everything is going good and then the cment problem became worse and worse and I said is you know I don’t know I think

I just said not the balance in my body and then the tiredness and the whole body came from Tuesday Wednesday on then I just were not able to finish uh one of the flat SPS in first place to continue the streak and the muscle still and my head felt like I’m losing

The street blah blah blah and yeah then I mean yesterday morning one in the set ring that helped a lot in my head and I ski then the tiny races at night and he decided to do this one early uh CU I got a lot of work ahead

And yeah so these are the app and daners of sports and swifter not enough champagne yeah thanks SAR no way no I’m I’m trying to tell myself I like you know what the people are you doing in your head to yourself so but yeah you know it’s like

I think we all have a different kind of strug from time to time and uh yeah so it’s not the one way street up uh but yeah it’s you know these times are all part of the Improvement and I did the Rafa the 500 challenge the we got the did I did I

Think over 300 or around no 300 kilm this week I think I’ll finish at 350 or something so for my I know for some people it’s for June it’s a you know these two weeks of mine are a day work but well let’s say the for my liking 300

Km plus now on a quite constant basis yeah quite something and I think the body just needs time to really get to that yes but I try to I mean with the short races I Tred to change that really do more of the long stuff do the kids 100 do this TI

Um it’s like you know I feel like if let’s say if I flat out at 12 watts per Kil on the sprinting rck roughly maybe maybe I get a little bit higher maybe not much but if I flat out around that and I want to be C and have a chance in

The Sprint against the I don’t know Doom guy or like Christian Peter or Rob even you know um with my weight which is around 66 67 kilos at the moment uh I just need like my 20 minutes my hour FTP my 5 minutes to be much higher that I can like really

Come into the Sprints with an ease let’s say where I then can really deliver and uh I have a chance against the power sprinters um against the heavier guys because of course if you’re heavier I mean just just look in the professional cycling look at the guys who where the

Sprint is they are more heavy and that’s you want a 15 seconds while you uh yeah go for you much more likely to win a spr here Havey if you’re more lighter guy like myself uh I need to prepare a field let’s say or I need to

Be uh yeah much lower on the fatigue when it then actually comes to the screen to have a chance yeah I know with the with my weight I mean um yeah I know I I should be I I feel like the climbing is much easier now you know course here lighter

And with the longer races uh coming into and the climbing is improved a lot um when what I need to do is actually really um I still need to lose quite some body fat uh which sounds maybe uh strange at that’s weight some 180 cm height and uh yeah 66 67 kilos

Which looks I mean it’s quite lean of course uh but I need to get more musle mass a little bit more and uh you know uh get my my body fat under 10% I’m still around uh like 14% I mean according to the Garmin scale so I I know it’s not an

Exact number that’s clear but it’s a yeah it’s a balance and yeah right Daren what you say I need to get more out of the cell that’s true um and I want to like do more strength training for the overall body and like you know maybe hopefully like switch two three

Kilos uh of body fat mus MK because then I think like uh yeah uh first of all overall uh it helps um and uh yeah I think then I can like stay really long out of Saddle which I have a huge problem with the moment still uh if you watch like people

Who are really good in in uh climbing for example Mark Marky marker when you watch his Hill Climb stuff uh he’s going nearly everything out of SLE um and that’s really a strength uh met strength and um yeah so that’s where I need to improve and uh

Yeah let’s see where it goes so well I’m happy yeah that’s so true s this like I don’t know that’s a good one yeah like a I don’t know really it’s it’s something to need maybe get used to her now I feel like if to like the moment I’m keeping my uh kicker

Wi5 uh too and uh yeah uh uh so to see which actually fits my ring but I think like if you for example I would do a time trial now here in the um uh on Swift or FTP test I feel like the here on the shift it’s

Much better like uh when I still feel like I’m not so sure about the you know this very quick responsible responsible responsiveness I don’t know it’s always when my English comes to to limit um so if you want to you know change the power very fast uh this build for me

With the with the bike on the on the V5 uh much easier so well you it’s getting used to things hey guys they’re in Arctic uh so wish you a lot of fun playing tennis with your I think you said your son or one of your kids for

Sure um yeah and Daren have a good good day and yeah Arctic uh good luck on the when you do this race later I guess you’ll have a bigger field um you are up to and they in you do some nice long rides and see you guys on Discord Swift uh YouTube wherever

Okay take care bye-bye