I raced B1 last year and it's a joke, the top 10-15 people there should be A, I'm racing A2 this year and in my race the highest 20m power was 4.6w/kg, I find B1 is filled with A sandbaggers and A2 is where people go when they actually want to get better. It's so strange to me when people just stay in B so they can keep winning, no one cares if you win a B race, it's B.

From C1 to B1 😮 we'll done, savage effort to stay with those beasts for so long.

Welcome back!!

Good job man. I'm also doing my first ZRL season. Been cat B for a while just always did the TTT with my team. It was a nuts race for sure and you made it further than I did with the lead pack. I mistakenly sat up after the first climb patting myself on the back that I made it up only to get dropped cause I didn't realize the sprint was there :D. Still finished 25th so not too bad. As to why they haven't switched to the new zrs my suspicion is it's too volatile for a long running series like that. People aren't going to change categories based on power very quickly unless they were sandbagging, but zrs is based on race performance. Win a few races and now your bumped from that league. Just my theory though.

Welcome to Hell matey!

Zrs would just make the cats even wider

at 10 seconds into the video, a graph of the track's profile is shown, where do you find that page? It might be good to know when the uphills are coming :-)

great result well done catC to cat B1

How did you improve your 20 minute power from 3w/kg to 3.6?

Great job! Looks like a tough race

Cool video, good to see your motivation towards ZRL is still as lively. Remember racing you guys a fair few seasons ago! If you've got some spare time, have a look at our teams' performance 😉 Maybe see you out on the virtual roads! 🎩

Not sure if you worked realised this afterwards but only top 5 FTS get points but it is now top 20 FAL that get points. They brought this change in a round or two ago. Always worth looking these things up before hand so that you know. Or just ask a team mate.

Good stuff my man.

I’m pretty similar to you and got DESTROYED in the open to that sprint. Well done! Very impressed you hung on as long as you did. B1 is bonkers Bravo.

Oh I know how you feel, set up nice with a cat C team in ready for ZRL in September, now racing B1, never even got one race with the Cs before I got upgraded... Damn tiny races :-p I know I'm going faster, but it hurts so much more :-p

Well done. Cat B1 is no joke!...it was full gas in my race as well...🥵🥵🥵...but you are clearly on this level...that training is paying off!

Incredible performance for someone who has just upgraded from C. The best is yet to come! Good to have you back where you belong

Good to ride with you. Well done. I was in team Galaxy. Horrendous start for me with a wifi dropout in the penn. Re connected after a minute of racing and had an 18 second gap to close. I ended up doing a 10 minute tt to get back to the group, lol

That course was bonkers. I barely hung onto the front group in my heat. Well done

Great to watch your progression through CAT C up into CAT B - Keep it up mate

Yep thats just gamecraft, good tactic

Nice race and absolutely love this channel btw. You look comfortable throughout the whole race, so I think it's 100% normal you try here and there to see how your competitors are doing. My opinion is that you launched too many attacks to try instead of launching 1 where you give it your max for 2-3min and also use the feather power-up when you are doing this attack. In that way I think you would make the other riders suffer quite a bit more and if you make a gap of 10sec or can get away with 1-2 others, the riders in the bunch might be less willing to close the gap.

Awesome effort mate Any course in New York is terrible but this one is tough looking very strong mate

Would love to save money and make one of these but I just can't get over the space required. I'd have to block off half the space in the room I'd have it in. Just that alone might mean I'd rather just spend the extra cash and buy something like the kickr move since I'm in the market for a new smart trainer anyway. Plus they're on sale for the same price as a new kickr and not a ridiculous amount more than a used kickr anyway. Great video though.

Great to see you loving your racing and still progressing week on week! You’re still in your prime too - I can barely remember when I was 41!

I see the length of the rail was 1200mm. Do you know the diameter of the round rail you used? I see them on ebay and amazon as SBR12, SBR16, SBR20, SBR25, where the number is the diameter in mm. Also, just curious how it was holding up. I'm thinking of building one and liked your design.

Your a very young man time is definitely on your side larkin 61

Zwift is to expensive and yet still has not made back its investments.

LOL try being 52 and winning mate?

How do you get the power graph at the bottom of screen?

9:35....1st place guy 121 pounds?....Wow, my ex girlfriend was 125 and people called her anoroexic and she was the same height as him...I doubt dude is 55kg.

Great job on the podium, looks like I’m gonna have to work a little harder if I want to be able to ride next to you in one of these events

Great to see the positivity on you now! Great riding. Have you looked into Sauce 4 Zwift with the draft gauge ? always know what you are gaining.

Just signed up for a 3am Cat D race!! Can’t wait!

3.4 for 20mins?? Nothing to shake a stick at!! Great work!

Great racing mate. That NY KOM is a killer climb and you smashed it! Congrats on the ZRS upgrade too 👊💪💪💪

Wins are wins if you ask me. Only have won a single race this year and it was a ladder race lol

This really is wonderful, thanks! Superb to see the work paying off. I'll maybe see you in some races now..I'll be in the draft too.

529...strong stuff...now it is time for a challenge in the 520-690 cat :) really well raced...that hill at the end is no joke...

As always, great video!

Fab race Oliver. Great race craft. Some great tips as well. I need to work on getting tucked in behind others. Find myself drifting to the front too often only to get passed on the last two k. lol.

Well done Olly, you should get steering also sauce for zwift is useful and for God's sake change to KMs 😂

I thought this was a okd frame just for the trainer. Doesn’t the trainer beat on the bikes chain rear chain stays from all the stress stationary side to side motion

LOL did you open a big ol stinkin can of worms with that weight comment. Realistically, nobody here is gonna come out and say they are weight doping, and the people who are cheating are just gonna be silent. I think most people fluctuate 1- 2kg over the course of a week and just stick to something close as that small amount of change isn't going to make that much difference. Use zwift to improve fitness and don't worry about others, just going to make you sour.

Great video, I’m finding it tough in the racing score, I’m at the top end of C and bottom of B. Such a no man’s land of racing. It will just take some getting used too.

interesting. good ride yourself with how you did as a plan

The DQs were just an error in the race setup I guess, but that doesn’t change the fact that you raced smart all the way and sprinted very well at the end after some hard efforts and not much recovery. Chapeau!

Après deux mois, toujours les mêmes problèmes... Je suis un "bon" sprinter de plus de 100 kg en D, et je me retrouve à courir contre des B et une majorité de C... Juste parce que j'ai réussi à gagner quelques courses sans trop de coureurs et parce que je me suis amusé à faire les segments de temps en temps...

Yeah that's just some race series someone set up months or years ago and didn't remove the W/kg limit when ZRS went into full effect.

Nice riding, dude. So efficient nowadays! I think you followed the right moves, would've been great to see that one with about a mile to go stay away, but great result but, yeah, I don't think I'd be taking that as a win, mentally. But you got the cup!