Finally Colin is back to a GRC race!! Woohoo!! This was a race I thought skipping because I'm not doing the OMG World Tour and new challenges are up but I looked at the numbers, and it was obvious this was to race to do today on Rouvy, could't miss. Let's start from the beginning, when you have this many heavy hitters, you really need to bring the rocket boosters at the start. I started at 5-6 wkg but wasn't enough. Already down to 45th place. But luckily there were some late starters or people who thought a 5-6 wkg would be enough were there with me. We quickly formed a group of 20 riders or so and started going together. Couple riders spiced it up by unexpected bursts but overall it was a good draft train. Survive the tunnel exits, survive the corner brakes, otherwise there isn't much on this route you could get dropped. As we get closer to the finish we picked couple more riders that got dropped from the front, and the draft train even got bigger. Now that group you were watching around 49 minutes was in our sight. They were a group of 5, we were 20 and that helped us catch them right before the finish line in the end. 18th place for me, it was a field sprint of 23 riders right there. Good race folks!! See you on the next one!! Thank you for the coverage Colin.

haha. "those turbos, they just don't sound right"... there's no replacement for displacement. :) that speed difference on the finish... i'll tell ya, we saw them... then the 5 W/kg juice started kicking in. 😅

Kept the Top Guns for almost half way and then we formed a good 2nd group, I was proud I kept them till the end.

Not fun….rouvy crashed at 21.5 minutes…lost the front group.

My live stream broke, but I just watched this. Thanks, Colin, for getting my failed finish. I'm glad to get into the top 100

Nice one Colin!

Thanks Colin for the streaming, legs were tired after racing for 3 days straight but with Clive, Hrdy, Gary and Roger, we are fighting for the 2nd spot in the Teams leaderboard.

hi i can't get this to load a route it gets to 1/3 loaded then shuts rouvy down that's streaming or downloaded the app is the latest trying on a MacBook pro been waiting 4 days for help from rouvy . are their any know problems with the app

finally discovered the reason for my current Internet problems. My neighbour got an installation in the summer and the contractors connected through my junction box rather than preparing a separate one. For whatever reason - the connectors have shifted - causing a lot of network jitter and my speed being reduced from 1 Gbps to around 300 Mbps if lucky (plus several disconnects per hour). Original cabling for me is around 30 years old so they are going to redo everything for me. Will not be for a few weeks though which means that the next few races will be pointless (no drafting).

Thanks for commenting❤ funny seeing myself

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Altas pulsaciones logras mantener. Gran trabajo

It's 'night-e-or' and not 'nee-tee-or?' I've been saying it wrong all along. rofl! I need to get in some audio chat!

this climb was incredible, thank you very much for the invitation it was fantastic 😍

Good video , appreciate the early morning start , good to watch some of it back - tough course 👍👌

I think that if you win a race or even some in the Top 10 you should agree to have your total average watts output independent of weight for the race displayed for men i.e. 300, then people can see if they are racing light?

Thanks for the group ride and the energy you put into your videos. I did try to connect on Discord in early 2024. It logged me in but I could not post comments. Unfortunately I’m no Mr IT (gold jewellery optional), so I don’t know what error I made, probably something stupidly simple. If you or anyone have any tips that could help? I’ll give it another try. I like the 2 cameras, you can see more of your pain cube. It gives better context.

Cyclist for 30 plus years mostly outdoors. I did have an old school spinner I rode until it seized up because of all the miles I put on it. Thanks for music to get me through it. Beginning a new journey with a Schwinn IC4 and the ROUVY and Strava app. Not real smart about all the technical stuff but you have clarified some of it for me. Thanks

Super stuff Colin! Thanks for jumping onto the C race. Hopefully you'll be doing more of these events and the nationals too. /Jacques

Thanks again Colin! Hopefully you will join us and comment on the Canadian Nationals. I am doing 55-64, same bracket as elite super master Bruce Bird:)

Thanks again for the coverage all series long. Bummed to have fallen off on the second lap but such a strong group today. The heavy hitters were out in full force! Not to mention the terrain!

Great video! Nice history lesson

cycling and mountains = beautiful 🚵

Hi Colin, I’m Sandarac (ROUVY). I need to add some of these to my ROUVY bucket list. I have a Kickr Core which only manages 16%, so the reality will be compromised on some climbs. You mention other platforms but not FulGaz. I don’t think it has racing but for reality it looks very good. Perhaps you could do a review?

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So glad you cover Mucker races! Thanks for the mentions and screentime.

Thanks Colin for covering both the Muckers Races.

Great coverage Colin, of me dying going up the last climb, huge thanks to teammate Kyloski for dragging me up it ! Keep the good work up, cheers Jeff65

Happy birthday, Inside Cycling World. Keep up the great work, Colin!

Hi Colin! About user names: I saw that almost all riders in Rouvy have names, while I have a default, "USER_...". I haven't started yet in Rouvy as I have yet to purchase a trainer. But will I be able to change that once I start or somewhere in the system? Thanks!

Thanks for the video again Colin! Ben and Ryan Nickerson are father son combo. I have raced both outside. Peter Smith is my teammate who is doing this one race to get to the national. All of us are from BC

Spectrum zx graphics. Poor cycling app, MyWhoosh is better than Zwift & it’s free. I can’t understand why people are so slow to realise this.

Interesting story and one I’d never heard of. Not sure about trying to frame the boyfriend, kinda feel she wouldn’t have used her own gun if that was the case, or her own car? Just a horrible story of someone’s jealousy ruining so many people’s lives. Really enjoyed this though, you do have a natural and easy to listen to delivery so please make more. Length was just about perfect to keep me engaged as well (as you know we as people nowadays want a sound bite or a reel type thing for our short attention spans!😏). What to do next? I don’t know. But maybe keep it cycling for now till the news networks come knocking!!

This is a clever and interesting direction, Colin. I like it.

Can't find words to express how well you have researched and narrated this sad end to a young cyclists life. Brilliant.

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RIP Mo Wilson!

Very good video matey.

Great race coverage as always, thank you for making the experience more spectacular, in relation to my performance, great race, very tough, I made a good climb (for me), right at the top when I was almost catching the two riders in front of me, the internet went down, I lost the two in front and was overtaken by the two behind me, then in the plan for not be pushing alone, I waited for those riders who were chasing me and with their help we reached the end. That was my race, it was my fourth consecutive day of racing, the tiredness was already too much, but it's always giving the better.

Love it, Colin! Enjoyed through this up on a monitor as I was working. Keep it up!

Great video format Colin. Love the jersey (and the house coat 😎). Hope to catch more of these videos 👍. Darren H

When is Chad Ritchie joining us for a mellow monday?

Chris is ghostpink. He'll ride with us on Monday. Last 2 Mondays he raced.

Mate - I am in shorts and t-shirt almost 365 days a year. If I ain't in shorts and t you know it's cold.

Colin - please tell me that it is you singing! what a tne

Attire wins the internet of the day, award!

Friendly option for video format. Would you do this but in landscape to match the intro format?

I like this new format. This is something I can listen to without watching, so when I'm doing or resting or working.

In England, we call them dressing gown.

Hey bro, what can i do when neighbors get agressive when i am riding indoor?