Zwift Climb Portal - Old Willunga Hill -

[@JDirom]

Well done, congratulations on the new PR. Was happy to see a new video from you in my feed again!

[@lee-cycling]

Thanks JD, and thanks for always checking my guff out and commenting. Really appreciated 👊

[@crankandsprints]

Great climb, I did it last week too ✌️ looking forward to the next Climbs

[@lee-cycling]

Thanks mate! On to the others!

[@appleseeds11]

Boom, you got the jersey too! Really great climb, Lee. 🎉👊🏻

[@lee-cycling]

Thanks Jonathan. 👊 Not quite as cool as your split jersey from the PRL ride, but I don't bag them often, so it was nice to get.

[@appleseeds11]

@@lee-cycling Sprint jerseys can be won by riding smarter, but KOM jerseys only by riding harder. They’re tougher to get IMO. That’s a prize.

[@GeorgAndTheBike]

The music with "nobody is laughing here" sounds like the perfect soundtrack for the climb portal 😅👌 Great effort as always 💪

[@lee-cycling]

Thanks Georg 😆I love the Climb Portal, though! But, yeah point taken: I definitely don't laugh whilst I'm on it.

[@HuddoThePaceline]

Well done Lee, great power all the way up and a big effort at the end. Nice KOM jersey as well.

[@lee-cycling]

Thanks Andrew. Really enjoyed this. Feels like the sort I can do my best on. Not too long, not too short.

[@psymanj73]

Blooming heck! 💪 🚲 What a huge effort and cracking climb, Lee! 🎉

[@lee-cycling]

Thanks Simon. Probably should have saved that energy for tonight's race. 😞

[@psymanj73]

@@lee-cycling team racing is a different beast and the rider doesn’t always get to ride to their strengths. Just ask HCT how many races I’ve had to drop back in 😉

[@crow4868]

Wow, impressive. No end in sight for the power gains. Watch out for getting bumped to A. Every time I look at their results there's like only a few riders. Scratch races anyway.

[@lee-cycling]

Thanks Roger. I think I'm a way off A still. But you're not wrong about it being a ghost town. And this is peak Zwift season right now.

[@RideWithGerben]

Oehhhhh. Very, very strong!!

[@lee-cycling]

Thanks Gerben. Really cool climb (if you haven't done it. You've probably already smashed it, though!).

[@RideWithGerben]

LOL! Yes! Video later this week! @@lee-cycling

[@lee-cycling]

@@RideWithGerben you sly ol' dog. Look forward to seeing it.

[@MrPedel]

That was very, very fast. Looks like your brain perceived those 320 watts as a floor, not an average 💪 Did well to modulate power, and even go over 500 at the end. Really look forward to seeing this boost translate into races as well. And you are getting dangerously close to A cat territory 💪🤩

[@lee-cycling]

Thanks Thomas 👊 I think that's probably right. I didn't have much of a plan going into it. Once I got to the second gate and it said the average was around 320, I thought I'd see how many gates I could keep that up for, and I think my brain did what you say. I think I'm probably safely distanced from A cat for a while, though. And I still seem to suck at racing, despite any gains I've got from FRR. Just can't ever push through in a race. I will seek comfort in the Climb Portal 😢

[@MrPedel]

@@lee-cycling sometime you should go into a race ending atop a semi-long climb with the sole goal of wearing either yourself or the opponents out completely

[@lee-cycling]

@@MrPedel sounds like a very good goal. I got kind of close to that on the final stage of FRR. I was battling a rider up the Epic. He got past me over the top, but I killed myself to get him on the RT. But, as we were all lower beings, he might not have been so serious about it. Meanwhile I'm there treating it like it's life and death.

[@MarkyMarkZwifts]

Great climbing Lee and a bonkers fast time up that hill! It looks like you've made another big fitness gain from doing the FRR tour and the PRL full, congrats mate! 👊💪💪💪

[@lee-cycling]

Thanks Mark. Really enjoyed this. Judging from your performance in those Tiny Races, I think FRR has given you some gains, too. If you're not back to form yet, you must be pretty close to it. Bet you would slaughter this climb.

[@MarkyMarkZwifts]

@@lee-cycling I dunno Lee, I'm not feeling that great at the moment, still really fatigued. Tomorrow's race will be a good test, but I think you and Rob will be the ones at the end 💪💪💪

[@lee-cycling]

@@MarkyMarkZwifts We will see. I say it will be you at the front! Hoe the fatigue shifts very soon though, mate.

[@MarkyMarkZwifts]

@@lee-cycling I forgot to say, it was really impressive that you stayed seated until the end of the climb, that low cadence and high power would have killed my knees!

[@lee-cycling]

@@MarkyMarkZwifts Funny you say that, because a lot of the time, I was thinking "Mark would be doing his out the saddle riding here", and wondering if I was hurting my time/power.

[@_Old_Andy]

The fastest Pat Butcher in the world!!! Impressive effort fella. Andy (old)

[@lee-cycling]

😂 thanks Andy. If it was a downhill effort, the real Pat Butcher would absolutely leather me!

[@doomguyzwifting]

Hello, DoomGuy here. First of all, awesome climb Lee! 330w for a lot of that 💪 secondly what did GHT stand for?

[@lee-cycling]

Hi, DoomGuy. Nice to meet you. Thanks, homey. The GHT is the category I was in for the FRR series. You have to add it to your name so the results can be filtered, and so other riders can see what category you're in (so they know if they're racing you or not).

[@doomguyzwifting]

@@lee-cycling thank you! Once again, awesome effort. It seems like a race against time for us to race before you get whisked away into A. 💪💪💪

[@lee-cycling]

@@doomguyzwifting I don't think I'll be heading to A any time soon, if ever. I don't think I have what it takes to get there. It's much more likely you will. But we definitely do need to get in a race together. It's been a long time coming!