Hey Riders and Racers, here is some footage from our weekly ride that we do every Sunday. We keep our rides short so that it’s not a whole day commitment for people to join us. Great to see returning riders, and even better the new ones, welcome aboard. Huge props to HonestJack for averaging 3w/kg…….at the age of 81, absolute Legend. Basak rode with HonestJack, couldn’t ask for a better team mate.

My internet was dropping at the end, so I had trouble figuring out where everyone was but at that point all the positions were determined. Tiny bit of video overlap at the end as I was told under strict orders….”no more videos Dad, it’s Christmas Eve”………The videos will get better and be much more frequent………Merry Christmas Riders.

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Hey Riders it’s time buckle up race day December 24th 20123 our Discord group usual ride uh we are doing the lucern the digital Swiss 5 we’re just in currently in the warm-up stage here we had 20 starters 26 signed up and we managed to get 20 starters

Today a couple of the core members had to actually back out uh you know Christmas commitments right um lots of stuff going on for everyone I’m glad I was able to Rite this one so early I think some of the European Riders really put it out there um it was

8 o’clock in the morning for you it could have been 3 four o’clock in the afternoon for them so I don’t think I would have got away with it at three or 4 so thanks for showing up so again pan flat but there is a couple hundred feet of climbing right in

The middle of the race which could make a big difference we’ll soon see so I started this one not really sure what I was going to do I was I was telling myself I’m going to ride it two Watts today take it easy next thing you know

I’m doing four like within a few seconds of the race got myself into a nice little group here I’m actually falling off the back end right now it started so fast uh heading downhill great to see Honest Jack right beside me Honest Jack is 81 years old just killing it here’s

Kraken 71 a lot of new names I don’t know uh this guy here Lars k71 we’ll have a big role in the race coming up uh then we’ve got cjf Andel I know I’ve seen this Rider along around a lot before and I think I quickly checked I

Think his name is Chris I believe could be wrong at this point here you can see there’s a big break and I’ve decided I got to catch these guys now or it’s race over for me so I’m doing 6.1 6.2 watts per kilo here I don’t know maybe sustain

For 30 seconds to jump across thankfully I see Granddad Rick there Discord member I latch onto his wheel in fact I just kind of roll right on by him uh ahead of me P beam another brand brand new uh Rider to our uh Sunday races first time

I’ve seen their name I just did find out that their first name is Pat um and right ahead of P beam or ahead of Pat is Sprout picker that’s the person I’m watching the most here I’ve seen Sprout picker race before so I just wanted to

Get into this key group to not let them out on my site SR71 that’s John member of our group doing a lot of work up front in fact it was really cool today we had three Gem City ICC Riders show up which is John SR71 same Jersey as me right now

Kirsten and I think his name is donon uh first time I’ve seen that person here a few other New Riders we had were con Balck mktr paceline G who we’ll see a lot of later uh mieno and giol Luca uh so we’re all keeping our eyes on

Sprout picker here he’s starting to push some power giol Luca is just over on the left I just mentioned that Rider’s name new Rider to uh in in our usual Sundays looks like Sprout picker is trying to push the power a little bit here trying

To test us out a little bit but um John SR71 is marking them very well just keeping them honest right like Hey we’re right here Pat beam is also moving up probably realizing hey is this guy gonna make go for it or not so we’ve got two writers going giuca quickly responds you

Know out to five watts per kilo I’m just kind of keeping an eye on it okay I’ve got these three other riders that have Mar Mark Sprout picker I mean if you’re lucky enough you can get on Sprout picker’s wheel and just hang on for dear life so there’s currently a group of

Eight of us up front here just all kind of rotating around I guess there’s some water so we’re in lucern uh we’re south of uh Zurich in Switzerland on a lake somewhere but I do not remember seeing water on this course probably because I was head down so much I think uh that

First little kick I did at the beginning kind of tested me a little bit um but yeah you gotta cover those breaks when you can you know it only takes a matter of a few seconds and if you don’t react they’re gone uh the draft will drop very

Quick you can see the draft up top right now I’m sitting in the draft you know hopefully at times I’ll get you know up to 50 watts of drafting I’m just over on the right hand side so no draft right now because we’re side by side so we got miens here myself

SR71 uh giola so Sprout picker starting to make a move again here trying to get away from us uh giol Luca quickly responds like Now’s the Time to Go you see them pushing the power you know six seven eight watts per kilo here and I’m I’m trying to drag

Myself up there too we put a gap of over 10 meters to the guys behind us right now like we’re we’re actually pulling away from them as we’re trying to bridge up the spro Picker uh and giol Luca gets very close giuca right now is with the

Nine meters I’ve got 15 meters of air behind me so behind me no one’s getting a draft off me now you know here we’re pulling away I’m you know I’m trying to hold four watts per kilo over this stuff kind of a little slight uphill here and

Then we’re going to kick down see Gio uh spro Pickers already starting that little downhill grade here and they’re just starting to get a gap on us now so I see giuca let off probably waiting for me to help and I’m looking at this going oh my like spro prickers already got

Sprout picker already has 40 meters on us I take my turn at the front but I I can’t chase down him doing four watts per kilo right now and just holding it you know look at him he’s at four and a half watts per kilo the whole

Time so he’s just attacking hard on the downhill trying to get away from us and we’ve still got that Gap behind us like between giuca and myself it’s 15 me behind us but in reality there’s like six really good Riders back there SR71 Granddad Rick um Lars 71 Lars k71 Pat beam M

Senos so there’s a lot of good Riders back there and here they come they just all swooped right past me and I’m like huh okay so they caught me pretty easy they used to must have used their momentum coming down the hill in a pack maybe carried a bit more speed to just

Swoop us and swallow us up right so the group kind of consolidates here everyone’s working good together Pat beam there’s mcos on the front in the blue jersey we got Lars k71 in the uh the Ruby stuff Ruby Jersey we got Pat beam in the I think he’s in the

Ukrainian jersey giuca in the black dark Jersey there I’m not really sure which Jersey that is I’m in the Christmas jersey and you know just off screen we got Granddad Rick we’ve got SR71 so we’re all just kind of cruising along here right now and so I said let’s

Call it pan flat because it really is is but if you look in the middle of the screen right now you can see a couple little bumps and they’re going to make a difference for me that’s for sure so it’s great seeing these new Riders out uh honest Jack riding I saw another

Regular uh yeah Chris cjf andel’s out there um I do did find out later I sael who we’ve been riding with for probably I’ve probably been riding with sorell off and on for probably coming up on at least it’s got to be two years now and I

Found out that sorell I think was switching his bike at the very start in he probably realized oh I’m on the wrong bike switched his bike got disconnected somehow so when the race started you know he was minutes and minutes before he got back into the race so it’s good

To see saell again um showed up did his thing uh done some really big hill climbs with sorell in the past so here we are all pushing over three Watts pilo again taking him a turn at the front feeling pretty good at this point but I think it’s pretty interesting here

You’ll see going up this grade here I kind of just wind it up slowly to like four watts per kilo like there we go but look at everyone else they just kind of kick past me I think these guys are all just like just slapping some more power down like

They’re they’re like doing four and a half five watts per K up the hill kind of makes me dangle off the back a little bit so you know even though I’m pushing 3.7 3.8 I’m like okay I’m going to hang on here I think this is Lars 71k right

Beside me there’s Granddad Rick uh MOS is just ahead of us so remember there’s like a pack of I believe it’s seven of us here seven or eight of us one of us is going to get spat out real quick so again we’re over the first little top of this first little

Climb still haven’t seen where the water is I think we’re just you know from where the lake is we’re just in a couple of blocks from it maybe we cross a bridge at some point let’s get downhill I’m just kind of taking it a little bit

Easy here maybe a bit too easy they slowly start to pull away from me see they you know they’ve got 7 8 n meters on me really quick and for ideal drafting you want to be about four meters behind them so I I do kind of

Give it a bit of power and get back on with them so there’s four of us here and there’s a little mini group ahead of us which will be I believe giol Luca Pat beam LS uh is L 7K there or with us I’d have to see quickly but yeah so they’re

Right ahead of us here and you know we’re all coming back there goes L 71k right by me right now sr71s here again they’re just putting out a touch more power than I am up the hills maybe I’m just not trying hard enough maybe I got to stand up on a few

Of these I think I might change that up because I always talk about how I never stand maybe I need to because you can see here I’m slowly falling back what I like at this point though I’ve got Lars right beside me I’ve got someone to ride with I don’t feel like

I’m in trouble yet I’m just like okay I’m I’m here I’m here there’s four of us here there’s probably three ahead of us the Gap is only 20 met something like that you know I guess mcos has pulled out a gap out to 60 M 70

M that’s just depending where we are on the hill and we’re there’s a you can see here we’re going into a downhill now and so I kind of drifted back here a little bit I’m out of the draft you can see I’ve got like no draft left now on the top of the

Screen and yeah that that’s all it takes it’s pretty much that quick look at SR71 here I think he made the right move he realized he was drifting off the back dropped some big Power you can see his numbers turning red and caught back on

With them he almost did what I just did so Jon is working extra hard to get back in that draft where you can see me here I’m not slacking you know okay I’m Switching gears here but when I’m riding normally I should be around three watts

Per kilo I guess down this hill maybe I wasn’t putting enough power out so they’re getting away from me right now you know with the three of them working together I’m not going to catch them now if they’re pushing three watts per kilo I’m probably got to push four four and a

Half by myself to get back on with them so again a little bit of a you know slight downhill here I can just see John disappearing out of sight around the corner here ah here’s the water so there is some water here I didn’t see any of

This during the race so I mean I’m not slacking I’m doing over three watts per kilo when I can I can see them just ahead of me again uh so it looks like that’s Lars k71 they’re not that far ahead but with a 70 meter Gap no draft if they push out

The same power as I do and work as a three-man group I’m never going to pull them back riding at the same power so bye-bye they’re gone so I’ve just kind of resigned myself that I’m just going to ride alone except I did notice that um there’s a new Rider behind me called

Paceline G and paceline G was working very very hard to come back to me so currently at this point in the race uh since everyone’s out of sight spro picker has the lead they’re the red bubble on the bottom of the screen on the profile and then you’ll see that white

Bubble well there’s my blue bubble that’s my location there’s a white bubble that’s the group of riders ahead of me which kind of fractured into two groups but they’re all going to bring it back together so I can see there’s lar 71k there’s Granddad Rick so they must all

And there’s Pat beam so there’s a bit of a gap between them so I think there’s two or three out front Pat beam mieno and probably giol Luca and then we got granded Rick L 71k SR71 I don’t think I’ve missed anyone else there they’re like 40 50 meters behind the other three

So there’s one solo Rider a group of three another group of three then there’s me all by myself so I’ve kind of got myself in no man’s land here this is kind of not what you want to do I don’t have enough strength power endurance to

Jump up and catch the Riders ahead of me I mean maybe I could have hung with them if I was a bit more alert I could have just sat in their wheels and you know went for a free ride uh or what you can do is kind of drift back to the person

Behind you but at this point I’m looking at the race I’m seeing that we have just over three kilometers to go I’ve got a little bit of a gap to Pace line G I I really just don’t want to give up um if it was a longer race let’s say

We had 20 30 kilometers to go I would probably drift back to pce line G I I mean I would soft pedal a little bit maybe I’d ride at like 2.4 uh 2.3 to let them start gaining a bit but as you can see here they’re already coming back at me

So a little tiny bit of a bump here this looks like we’re going going up over a bridge you know uh there might be some water there hard to tell but I’m sure there is and then of course going down the other side of the bridge a little

Bit of a downhill you can see the lead that spro picker has Now is really pulling away from us like when spro picker made that move early on it was like sustained five five and a half watts per kilo just to see if we were going to

React so I can see the two it looks like the groups are getting closer together at the front because we have Riders at 160 meters ahead of me and then Riders at 195 so they’re getting close together so the three behind are working quite hard and I think they’re pulling back

The three in front otherwise they’re waiting maybe if they all work together they might be able to pull spr picker back but it’s a very strong Rider and you can see there’s Riders behind us on the course I know bash shock’s back there with Honest Jack they had an incredible ride

Today um I know Kirsten and Donan hope I’m seeing that right rode quite a bit of the rout together I I think they finished within a second of each other uh sorell yeah technical problems at the beginning so he he would have been right here with us like Snell would have been riding

Here with me or the people ahead of us at this point for sure so yeah this is just a great way to get out burn some calories uh on Christmas Eve which now when I’m doing this recording it is now in the afternoon and I’m waiting to get into all my Christmas

Eve snacks I can’t wait for that so here you can see I’m just kind of like toodling along now I’m not really cranking that hard I am at times I’m trying to push over three but you can see now my power is doing a lot of that two two and a half thing

Right uh I did do a tough Hill Climb yesterday that’s another video I’m going to put up it’s going to a Hidden Gem it’s uh I returned to a certain location in the states which I said I was going to go back to because I saw a lot of cool climbs

There and uh yeah I found a great ride to do so I did that late in the day yesterday might have zap my legs a little bit but I don’t know we’re not too sure so yeah just cruising along here uh 1.3 km to the Finish spr picker has got to be within

I’d say 500 meters of the finish and you know I’ve been looking every day now I’m going to try to do a race as often as I can um and I prefer to do actually live commentary because at this point just with way the race plan played out and me

Getting dropped by the other Riders all you really see at this point is me I can’t really follow the other Riders so I’m going to have a good look around every day and try to find some races that look interesting that we might get some good battles develop on

And um see if we can get some good commentary going on them think I’ve got some internet issues at home here hopefully this will continue to play right it’s getting kind of jittery in places and uh the way I do these this is a oneshot recording trying to do my best color

Commentary for you so Sprout picker has finished it looks like and the uh the group of six Riders ahead of me I think it’s six yeah I think I finished eighth overall I’m not sure um yeah they they all came together in the end you can see here look how

Close they all are together you know they’re at 260 meters ahead of me they’re all riding together at this point so there’s going to be six Riders at the end GI Luca mieno Lars 7 Lars k71 SR71 Pat beam and Granddad Rick they all finished within seven and a half

Seconds of each other there was like nothing there any one of those could have taken second place or whatever it was second third place um very close racing uh I can see that paceline g is coming up on me like a rocket ship but I

Know I have just enough gas uh gas left in the tank to get me across the Finish Line uh with 350 meters to go there’s not much left to uh pce line G I mean if this race was any longer they would definitely have caught me so you can see

Here they’re only like 60 70 meters behind me but I’m just getting to the finish line and you’ll see when I cross the line I’m just kind of coasting across here so you know I’m glad I did this ride today um Racing’s a lot of fun and

You can see on the bottom of the profile that there’s lots of different groups out there don’t be afraid to join us I’m not always at the front not always at the back do the best I can looks like we got a big stutter here in the video right

Now not sure if this is going to connect or not well that may be the finish of the video so what I’m going to do here is you know I just coasted across the line here you can see at this point I’m doing 6 of a watt I’m going to end the video

Here take a look at it and keep fingers crossed I can upload this thanks for checking us out

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