Zwift – ZRacing – Vive la France! – Stage 1: RGV

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Zwift’s “ZRacing” is the platform’s most popular ongoing race series, and in May we’re racing a set of four routes with fresh achievement badges released in the latest game update. Hop into a race and let’s bag some extra XP this month!

New: Power Meter Required

New this month, Zwift is requiring all racers to use a power meter, smart trainer, or smart bike when entering any Zwift-owned race events. Virtual power, which is based on a speed sensor on your wheel, is being disallowed due to unreliable power accuracy.

This hardware requirement removes “zPower Rangers” from the mix, especially in the A category where riders with dodgy virtual power often land.

Vive la France! – July’s Route Schedule

Here are the routes we’ll be racing in July (click route for details):

Stage 1 (July 1-7): R.G.V.
1 lap (24.9km, 133m elevation)
Powerup: Draft Boost, Aero Boost

Stage 2 (July 8-14): Casse-Pattes
1 lap (23.8km, 155m elevation)
Powerups: Feather, Draft Boost

Stage 3 (July 15-21): Douce France
1 laps (24.8km, 137m)
Powerups: Draft Boost, Aero Boost

Stage 4 (July 22-28): Champs-Élysées
2 laps (16.4km, 92m)
Powerups: Feather, Anvil

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[Music] [Music] hey what’s going on guys welcome to the stream hopefully you had a good week man that headband is white crazy crazy we’re doing Z racing looks like it’s France I guess tour to France that’s why we’re doing that um so yeah hopefully we will check this out right away we’ll make sure that the bot is working I know last stream that uh it was not and people were disappointed the bot is back welcome back from vacation bot I appreciate you joining in we’re going to switch up bikes here garage frame we’re going with a specialized Venge venge all day I think oh I unclip somehow what is going on with my Clips ah my Clips loose that’s what’s going on with my clip so we’ll be one second guys good to find that out before the race starts got to find the right uh Allen key here should be a 4 mil if I can find one there we go so needless to say hey if you guys ever had these before that is not acceptable for clipping in and out it’s going to move around and it would explain the other day why I was having some issues clipping in and out because if that was moving that’s why I couldn’t torque my foot the one way so I’ll just tighten those down usually I do this with a torque wrench but I will do that later so it should be good and secure now uh because of my Q factor because I’m a wider guy always like to push my cleats in the only problem with Mount ones is I have to be careful with is because they actually fit in The Recess I don’t want to go too far or it becomes a bit of an issue anyways as we continue to get ready for this I’m sure that screen is really boring for you guys so we’ll switch to that one cuz I’ll forget anyways tie the shoes back up jump on the bike clip in make sure that we can it’s just interesting that that was what it was I think it’s why I had I said I was clipping out usually I clip out my left foot first we’re riding the other day and I just stopped I went to stop and I almost didn’t uncp and I think that’s because the cleat was pivoting uh and I couldn’t get enough oh yeah what a difference woohoo there we go straight in then I messed that one up opposite side what can you do anyways back to the quest at hand wouldn’t be a stream if uh we weren’t having some technical issues oh my God this is such a slow pace what is going on and I honestly think my heart rate’s off because oh there we go it’s climing G to say if I can ride around at 54 beats a minute it’ll be good hey James thanks for tuning in let’s hope so this is uh it’s going to be interesting this go round because this event I forget what they call it again I will take a look in the zift app here so they’ve got I don’t know if you guys can see that but at the bottom there it says zift Labs so it’s the only race that I saw today initially I didn’t see it because they’ve got a different Banner on it than all the other whift racing ones and they have categorized people by your race score um so basically it indicates to go to Swift racing uh for more information on how you can participate yada yada yada uh zift Power you got to be on zift Power and basically it’s an opportunity to test out and give feedback on the new improved racing score feature in order to see your racing score you will need zift lab Club so you go when you join zift lab club uh I am at the bottom of the the uh the numbers I think as far as how it’s categorized see if it’s in the event rules here now it just says power meter so yeah we’re in the 400 to 575 category uh the categories are as follows 0 to 225 uh 225 to 400 and that’s a ma there’s 62 people in that category it’s massive mive um for this time slot and I’m curious I should actually look and see who’s in it because oh my God so zwan who’s here every week is in that category which is interesting because zwan smashed it last week um so I don’t know who’s going to do it let’s see if any of the other regulars are in in there let’s see about ours who’s in ours yeah I’m going to get uh I did not need to look at this before the race this user is private this user wait what okay oh my god um I I’m going to put this out there guys if if I do well in this it’s uh it’s going to be something else there are people in here let’s see if I can find that guy again I just pulled up a cat a guy racing in this class cat C cat B cat B cat B cat B cat B cat a you know it’s just like woo okay now we got some C’s now we got some C’s okay now I can’t find the a maybe it was an error maybe it was an error cat c c b so we definitely have c b guys lots of cat bees another cat B take a look let’s see what this uh so it’s calculated so how is your Racing store calculated um ah there you go thank you Lee Mark crane so how is it calculated it says we calculate a new racer score using the formula based on the CP3s and CP 600s s power outputs the max power you have for 600 seconds or 10 minutes we normalize the power by weight and make further adjustments based on our analysis to ensure the score is fair various weights and performance levels after normalization we apply a specific formula to transform these values into a final ceed score between zero and a th000 as you race your score changes as you finish high as you finish against stronger competitors in races will increase your score more significantly converser lower placements and or less strategic engagement in races will result in smaller gains or even reductions in your store this method ensures that each racer score truly reflects their performance ability and growth and capability all time so your score can decrease um it’s not based at all on your pace category which I find very interesting like if there is a cat a guy in there I don’t know on what planet I’m competitive with that but we’ll see so I’ve got to be mindful I guess of how this sort of plays out and pay particular attention to my power numbers and how I’m feeling so we’ll see we’ll see how it goes it’s uh it was interesting I almost switched the stream to 3 o’cl I’m not I’m not working this week I’ve got the week off it’s Calvary Stampede week Yahoo um and so I almost went for an earlier category uh as initial seed value based off power from the last 90 days these first few races will have strange pens as results come in oh it’ll hopefully improve hopefully I mean it let’s let’s be honest I am good for uh a mid pack kind of finish anyways uh if it’s like bone flat course I might surprise some people if they uh they let me do nothing and then Sprint but generally speaking I think it’s good I I I think a results based system might work to the advantage of some people I think uh you never know it’s uh it’s tough to say it’ll be interesting to see how it evolves I mean let’s let’s be honest if you if you’re crushing every race and you’re winning every race uh you know bumping you up might be a thing uh they do have more categories which is good I think as well um I think that having kind of more because we’ve got one two three four five so a b c d and e for everyone um I mean still based on that I’m still sort of cat see I I mean it might uh it might now that it’s got a larger category maybe it will make it more competitive I don’t know uh that remains to be seen we will see I I think uh I raced tiny races for the first time like two weeks ago cuz I had a rainy Saturday so I wasn’t going out uh and riding the bike and they were doing it based on V2 Max versus your category I found that race um still hard they’re hard races but I I didn’t find it as ugly as some of these races do tend to feel especially tiny races so there are four events a day on The Primetime events they have 10 pens they are high low versions of each strata there are four events a day on prime time events they have 10 pens there are high low versions of each strata so is there are they breaking these up AC I’m not quite sure what that means my primitive AP mind is struggling with comprehending the words that you have typed on the screenly I may Simple [Laughter] Man um there are four events a day on the prime time events they have 10 pens interesting so maybe it is breaking up um so who knows we’ll see we’ll definitely see uh I I I will know within the first few minutes of this race whether or not it is going to be pure suck or not I’m I’m looking at the uh the numbers because I’ve got the app open and uh I guess because it’s tour the France maybe here because it’s Canada today and it’s a holiday for most uh that maybe this is why this slot is so full because we got 63 people signed up which is huge for this time slot um I think I mentioned last week they’ve been progressively getting big bigger and bigger and bigger like we have our regulars unfortunately zwan in uh the uh I don’t even know what to call it the group below the 225 to 400 thing so I’ll be interested to see their results uh zwan is as eigor indicates a climber 100% um and often gets really kind of pushed hard in these events so it’ll be interesting I think for her in that event it might work out much better for her I think potentially she could win I mean she’s always in the mix so who knows uh that might do well like I said I I’m very curious how we’re going to do against a cad a racer um I will definitely after all this is said and done have to go take a look at some of the people because like I said that list there is a lot of B’s there’s a lot of a lot of B’s a couple A’s um and a good chunk of seas I would consider myself a mid sea at best uh I have the feeling that there’s a lot of high seas in here who knows um high seas low bees I don’t know we we we’ll see we’ll see how it goes it would be interesting I don’t know where Peter’s at but I’m curious where Peter ranks in this uh race structure um CU this is all new and we’ll figure it out as we go along it’s uh but it’s going to prove to be a very very kind of interesting change of things which is good I I don’t mind change I think that uh the category system you know the ab CD is what it is I think providing a little bit more diversity across the board as long as you have the numbers not necessarily a bad thing um espec especially in the larger the larger group numbers which would be not eight so we’ll see we got 417 to start it’s interesting there’s not a lot of people in this pen with four minutes to go I don’t understand what’s going on like maybe as Lee said and my primitive ape like mine couldn’t comprehend maybe those six some people are spread across multiple pens you know maybe there’s another pen with 27 odd people in there who knows we’ll see but appreciate you guys all dropping in if you haven’t done so already please do smash that like button it does help us out share the stream the bot is back going so you can use exclamation points to check how many points you have and you can reading them for everything from alyss to cowbells to more cowbells and when I ultimately run out of gas and look like a three-year-old on a tricycle we got one of those too and then you can make fun of me for being slower than your grandmother it’s a great beautiful world oh they’re only at the 610 UTC this just has 5 P fair enough very interesting like I said there’s 63 people signed up specifically for this race and I only see 27 people here there’s 75 and the one below and I’m curious if we’re just going to see a big dump of people in the next two minutes or are we going to are we going to have like a 29 basically that’s breaking up it’s bre making up the band man hello JD I thought they might have been running the score in the background to get get it up to speed they have I joined the club and stuff mine was like I’m at like 440 uh so I’m in the 400 to 575 uh we’ll see how it kind of progresses from there I’ll make sure take a look at my profile profile so yeah 440 is it’s on your zift app you have to join their the little zwift Labs group in order to get it you have to be signed up for zift power so I’m ranked at 440 we it’ll be good to see experiment wise what happens to that score after this race concludes um will it go up will it go down will it remain the same will I get demoted will I get promoted who knows yeah pen C and D look really packed on Swift power not sure why they’re not here in the game interesting yeah if you’ve done all the sign up stuff it should be on with power all right I say this every week let’s take it easy boys let’s just have a nice little civil ride through the thing and then Sprint for the last few hundred meters and I’m good with that let’s not try to play Hero let’s not try to put a big Pace out there everybody wait wow so clutch he put on a nice attack for this one in the earlier race he was looking good he was looking good but they drug him back in made him work hard all right spicy start hey George Brian Kellon get the out of here if you don’t know Brian I’m here Brian’s off my screen all right and I saw Brian said he was going to race but there’s no way he in my cat w his numbers are deceptive w Al Al Al Al Al Al That’s What I Call defensive power upo h a I got to sorry guys Jesus Christ oh it’s just too fast that was Unreal I will say that is the hardest start on a flat race I have ever had that was Unreal I bet you if you watch Brian kellison on Twitch he’s just chatting away right now having a big old philosophical conversation about something now this new categorization has clearly put me towards the rear end of this we’ll see we’ll see if anybody else gets dropped and we’ll see if we can pick them off try to hold on for longer but he’s going to pop a look like they’re averaging about 280 up front now if he catches up I’ll work with him he’s more likely to get caught by ro first all right take her easy George appreciate you dropping in you got a very useful draft at the moment those guys still holding on good for them good for them nice work huge numbers now like 72 as they hit the aqueduct so Ro is almost caught agulara or agula sorry for my butchering of South American names they’ll start working together thanks for the right arm Michelle they’ll start cutting down that Gap now looks like a group of four falling off the back oh my God that was a huge huge Thunderbolt if you didn’t hear that looks like we got a storm rolling in so if I all of a sudden disappear you know why guys are pushing now from behind let him catch up is oh now they’re losing time gaining time losing time yeah I see that there’s four of them about 16 seconds behind there’s a huge split uh 226 there’s a group of four two seconds behind then there’s a group 8 seconds behind them and then a straggler at two seconds so they’ve completely splintered that Groove it’s now five three and one and those guys behind me they’re doing about 48k they’re pushing hard now it’s good we’ll let them catch up roll through and we’ll tack on yeah they’re pushing fast behind now this is more just to compete with somebody at the end I’m sure if I just kept on it I would have kept that Gap but there’s no way I’m closing 215 by myself over 9k these guys might be able to close a little distance but they’re not going hard enough to close that big gap either you see them sneaking behind me on the corner they should be able to just see me it’s like nine seconds now I still can’t get over how fast that first 10 minutes was jeez yeah these guys are pushing like 27 for kind of want them to slingshot past me and not just roll in I want to give them the impression that I’m toast toast thanks for the right on Peter they’re almost there there he goes for for for hey Paul that that grandmother out for a flat course I got absolutely smashed it would be a hell of a victory to close 3 minutes and 59 seconds in less than 4 kilometers it was interesting with the new categories that’s for sure oh absolutely absolutely I recognized some names and I knew it was only a matter of time I said Brian kellison was probably having a philosophical conversation as he dropped me I don’t what I want to do here you I let these guys catch up we see how everybody climbs I guess e Al Al Al Al Al [Music] Al he’s got some decent power Al Al Al Al Al Al here we go son of a let’s see all finishers here is this piece of Brian 18th yeah first uh and RT 17th if you had that much why waight yeah he was he was um I just wanted I said I let those two guys catch on cuz I just kind of wanted to see or give something entertaining at least for the end of it thanks easy it’s uh yeah there’s what was the name of the a guy again Lee who is the a guy it is a different RT 100% it’s not RT it’s RT but RT is in a lot of these races the other RT fake RT impostor RT not the real R RT um Mark crane ninth so he came in 10th here so he must be a lighter guy 67 years old what the hell oh my God no excuse being mid-50s here when there’s a guy 12 years older than you that kick in your ass jeez good job Mr Crane good on you man that guy’s my hero that guy is my hero uh to be that age and uh kicking it that hard woo 4.3 must be a light dude um so obviously not his course um I kind of want to take a look at zift Power let’s take a look at zift Power I should set it up where I can actually look at it on the computer with everybody but I’m not that organized today so let’s go to the power profile going unclip for a second here see it’s funny like if you look at how slow my last half of that race was and still at 28 it’s uh it’s uh what should I how how should I put it it was that hard to push on the uh the front end see you got race brain update for me why is it not updating still waiting for other finishers maybe I don’t know anyways I’m curious how zwan did at the end of the day very it’s going to be very interesting how these categories kind of work out moving forward I’m also curious ended the results I wonder how long it takes to calculate I’m still at 440 so you all see it hey clutch welcome to the stream oh that was uh brutal I wasn’t uh wasn’t fun uh if you’re still there clutch oddly enough Brian kellison was in this this division um and uh he finished 18th so given that Brian finished 18th I don’t feel so bad about where I sort of landed on things I’m also interested to kind of see in the power profile or in the profiles at the end of the day where we sort of end up in categories like because with power will still show a b c d Etc and I’m very curious kind of you know who’s finishing ahead who’s finishing behind and how that all sort of plays out so like I said we had the cat a guy um who didn’t win now will that number drastically increase the people that finished above him at uh what was it 10th place so the nine spots above them do they get you know an extra boost for beating an aat um I don’t you get to ride with so many Europeans that’s true I mean it’s usually you and I later in the day most North Americans we’re racing among our our own continent kind of thing with the odd thing weekend’s different a bit um depending on when you race but uh it’ll be interesting to see how it sort of all plays out um I’m telling you like tiny races did the V2 Max to determine their thing I felt like in that race in particular even though tough uh I felt it wasn’t as tough as it used to be I felt the category Advantage helped me in tiny races um I think this will this one in particular this race in particular I mean uh was extremely fast for what uh I would consider the norm for a flat race uh they get a boost for beating a rider uh with a higher seed score since people only have seed scores now his C cat won’t factor in at all he’s just his Racing store uh but if seed score can’t have been good or he wouldn’t beat there and and that’ll be the interesting thing like I mean I think there’s a lot of people that just kind of for races and every once in a while throw down um I’m not sure how that will play out versus somebody like a lot of people that I know are racing you know me on the low end once a week and I know guys that are racing two three four times a week it’s crazy uh so it’ll be interesting uh this is a good rout for my power profile absolutely clutch uh you you ran a fantastic race earlier I thought uh when you pushed off the front uh and the pelaton didn’t respond initially and you got that Gap I thought for sure you were going to sneak away with that but uh it was uh it was really entertaining to watch it was uh well raced well raced I mean at the the end what can you do when you get caught like it’s uh it happens it’s the effort it’s the effort that counts like and I mean let’s be honest it’s hard to stick those things sometimes he appreciate it uh have a good one thanks for tuning in as always man as always the ever so handsome Ley cycling check out his channel fantastic unless he signed up earlier after riding out does and the C score were completely wrong that’s possible that’s possible I I mean it’s uh it’s going to be interesting because a lot of people are myself included riding outside uh a good chunk so uh completely different I mean it’s I don’t know I wish I could uh almost duplicate what I do outside indoors sometimes but it’s not uh not in the car but anyways guys I didn’t have a plan Plan B unfortunately that’s okay clutch it’s uh that’s how those things roll man it’s you know you just go and get you know sometimes just shoot your shot and that’s your shot right it’s uh Plan B is finished I I I would say it was pretty well executed I don’t think you could ask for much more um I you you kind of snuck off there but uh appreciate it guys uh we’re going to jump out of here uh maybe I’ll check out and see if Brian’s streaming he was probably chitchatting I going to go see his stream anyways he was probably like I said doing a philosophical dissertation on streaming platforms as he completely rode away from me so but anyways guys appreciate it have a great week we’ll catch you later until next next time see you [Music]