Re:Club League on RGT, Thursday 16th April

Fergal wrote:

Cheers for organizing.

I think it’s a good idea but I had issues with the apps and am interested to hear if anyone else had problems. At the start it said the race was starting in 30 seconds but started straight away. Then around lap 10 the iPad app seemed to lose connection and I came to a stop. The phone app seemed to keep going but then it stopped and then iPad started working. It was fine for the rest of the race but just on the iPad.

I’m guessing it’s my phone but it’s a pity it needs both apps to work.

I haven’t had any problems myself yet, but from having read up on it there are still occasional problems/crashes/disconnects. I think it’s an unfortunate side effect of using such a new app that it’s not exactly flawless, but (so far at least!) it’s working brilliantly for me. Apparently they are quick to reply if you get onto support about it.

Darran wrote:

Hi Fergal,

Are you using the Ipad as the screen app? When you say the phone app stopped do you mean it was no longer reading your power etc but it was still displaying your power on the screen app?

Hi Darren, yes, using the iPad as the screen. All the numbers - power, hr etc went blank on the iPad. The phone was still showing the numbers but i assumed it was a sync issue so tried closing the phone app which worked in the iPad started working but the phone didn’t for the rest of the race.

And to add insult to injury it didn’t post to Strava. So it never happened.


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I was able to email the ride files from the RGT app and upload to strava. Crisis averted!

Brian wrote:

I'd definitely like to see more of these. Seemed like it was hammer down from the start so I never saw the front,

We rode piano for the first 4 laps before the attacking started!

PS I thought I was only lapped by 4 people, but I must've been cross-eyed when the other two passed me.

Think your still a little addled by the effort of it, that refers to how many people were lapped by the leader, not how many people lapped you!

That was hard from the gun this evening, and as close as we're going to get to real racing. Well worth the time and effort to take part, and I think I'd do it again. Thanks Dave.

I had no technical issues despite the fact that I was streaming video out at the same time. My wifi coverage and internet speed are both very good, and my laptop is a recent high performance one, so those are probably key to avoiding problems. I think a strong wifi connection is probably very important. Both computer and phone need that.

I’ll do some checking out on this for you and hopefully figure it out for the next race

Can I just confirm that it was Ian Donnelly who finished second, and not Ian Devlin?

I know who the scratch group will be anyway if we do it again!

Donnelly had uploaded his ride to Strava

A different angle but from a spectators point of view I really enjoyed that thanks!

Well done to Dave for organizing, everyone who raced for suffering and to Barry for letting the bystanders feel his pain!

The Discord app brought back many memories of Corkagh Park - the usual questions: who is leading, how may laps left and the only key differences were that it wasn't windy, raining or cold and my cup of tea at the half way point was nice and hot .... Discord moment of the night goes to Kashif for the start line commentary as his explained to his children (and assembled riders/watchers) what was going on!

Roll on next week!

Louise wrote:

Discord moment of the night goes to Kashif for the start line commentary as his explained to his children (and assembled riders/watchers) what was going on!

That was brilliant and maybe my favourite racing moment ever

Zoheb wrote:

Thanks for organizing. I need to get a hang on the corners. The feel was much better with the drafting and the cornering.
Would there be categories for beginners or amateurs by any chance?

Usually the club league is very much about looking after and teaching beginners, but in this case we had no idea if it was going to work, what kind of numbers we would get, or anything like that. Assuming we go again next week there will either be handicaps worked into it or possibly separate races for different ability levels.

Long time Zwift user and felt this was something different and I really liked the draft effect (even small gain when someone is on your wheel, as in real life). Too early to say, but think I liked it more than Zwift (and that’s saying something!).

There is no substitute for real-life racing, but we don’t have that option now and this is a decent substitute for now.

Finished work after 18:30 and had less than 20mins to read the instructions and get setup from scratch. Made it with about 2mins to spare so it doesn’t take that long and ran very smoothly on my decent laptop and iPhone.

Looks quite realistic Darran, far better than Zwift, I could definitely feel your pain. Looking forward to giving it a go next week

Thanks for organizing this! I had same problems as Fergal. At 7pm it said 6 mins to the start of the race and there was a full countdown on the screen so when we took off I thought it was warm up laps or something but was 5km before I realized I was racing!!

Other than that really enjoyed it, makes it so much more interesting racing against club-mates.

Looking forward to next one.

Cheers.

Thanks for organising Dave, It was very tough but good craic and I'd definitely do it again. I had a similar issue at the start where there was 30secs left on the clock but the race started there and then which took me by surprise. Other than that no other issues. My technique cornering needs some work but I'm sure that will come with time. The drafting feature works well and you really do feel the benefit from it. Roll on next Thursday.

I was looking at RGT's support pages and the timer is a known issue.

Really enjoyed that. Haven't raced in a few years, but this brought memories of Corcagh Park flooding back, including the all-too-real experience of getting blown out the back during the first lap :-).

Would be very interested in doing more events, so I hope they will continue to be open to non-racers. I'd also encourange anyone with the slightest interest in racing, that has a power meter or smart trainer to give it a go.