Bruh....all this time I see your Zwift name pop up whenever you give me Ride-Ons. Had no clue this was your channel haha. Good stuff Oliver!

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Patty! Been a long time follower of yours - appreciate the comment mate 👍🏻

Well done, great result! Did not watch the whole video but to answer your question, yes this is that tough...if you race in B1. There are not that many divisions anymore but a while ago, there was like 5 div in B. Did them all with my team as we kept on being promoted and I can tell you that when you land in division 1, this is really painful, that was the end of me winning anything at the time, and even struggling to score 1 or 2 FAL or FTS points in races

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

Thanks mate 👍🏻 super pleased with that one! I do watch a lot of the higher cat B races and some of the power is crazy high, almost like a different category all together! B3 seems like a step up from C but no where near what the higher b cats push out! Good luck next week, not many to go now! 👍🏻

You say that the power up "Ghost" is not usable, but I don't completely agree with that. I used it to get away from the pack with another racer and we stayed away after an attack at the end of the 2nd lap. But, you had a great race, dude!

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

Nice work mate, that’s super strong 💪🏻 I probably should have said it wasn’t going to do much for me, as I definitely wasn’t strong enough to use it the way you did - I can see how useful it would be in that situation 👍🏻 thanks mate happy with the result in the end, it was all I had! 👍🏻

dude i LOVED this race!!!! Leg Snapper was savage

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

It was all about the Leg Snapper matey but super fun, one of my favourites! 👍🏻

@alexdoessports

5 ай бұрын

Are you also going to make a video about this race?

@thewattlife

5 ай бұрын

@alexdoessports@@alexdoessports I raced this with my team but didnt record it- which is a shame because it turned out to be a great race

@alexdoessports

5 ай бұрын

@@thewattlife Yes, that was definitely a cool race! I was on the attack with your teammate. That Frenchman was really strong.

Congrats on being in the front group and competing at the end! This is your minimum standard now Ollie. I had a massive technical blowout just before the second leg snapper and then spent the next 3 hours figuring out how to fix my connectivity issue (I won't bore you with the details lol). With power ups if I know there's more than 1 type available in a race I tend to keep a good one like what you did with the feather for the leg snapper, again it just takes the risk away of getting a ghost for example. One thing I did do on the one time I went up the leg snapper was use my aero at the top just as I start descending, I felt it had more benefit than using it on the leg snapper. Great racing and on to the next one!

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

Thanks mate, much appreciated! 👍🏻 I’ll do my best next week but it’s going to be another tough one! Ah no that’s a shame - I did see on the companion app you DNF’d after a lap or so which is unlike you so I knew something like that must have happened, what a shame! So annoying when that happens, hopefully it’s all sorted now? Good plan with the aero on the way down, I think I’ll always keep one of the decent power ups in reserve from now on as that ghost in the middle really hurt! Good luck next week mate, 2 to go! 👍🏻

@philcox810

5 ай бұрын

All sorted now mate so no excuses next week! 😆I think thats the first time I've DNF'd actually. have a great race next week and I look forward to the video recap!@@notpogi

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

Thanks mate will definitely try my best next week and glad it’s all sorted, looking forward to seeing you back up near the front 👍🏻

Great job finishing in the lead pack. Also think you made the right choice duping the aero 2nd lap. The feather is way more useful so i would always trade it for the aero. To bad you got the Ghost but it worked out in the end. personally tho, i find this route a bit boring, because it is just the legsnapper. There's not really anything in between that you can work with. Give me next weeks route any day.

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

Thanks very much matey, I was happy with the result and found the feather way more helpful up the leg snapper than the aero would have been 👍🏻 Yeah I agree that next weeks route is way more interesting - watching the recon it’s got a bit of everything really, can’t believe we’re coming up to the last couple of races of the season! Good luck for Tuesday - should be a good one 👍🏻

Well done. This course requires patience to save up for the leg snapper. You were spot on with your race craft here.

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Roy, appreciate that 👍🏻 I was a bit lucky with the feather PU but I think it was the best I could have done! 👍🏻

Strong riding, Ollie!

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Harry much appreciated mate, happy I finally made it to the end of a B ZRL race at the front 👍🏻

@harrybroaks9725

5 ай бұрын

@@notpogi yeh no joke getting to the end in that one! Was a hard effort going up there three times. I was toast after.

Nice one mate, that was a cracking race and your tactics were spot on. Lots of recovery and draft at the back of the pack and then smash the leg snapper each lap - you were flying up there, awesome performance 👊💪💪💪

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

Thanks mate!! 👍🏻 I knew I had to save energy in between the leg snappers if I were to stand a chance so hanging out at the back worked well! Hope you’re all good mate and back to your normal strong self - I did see you’ve been on zwift a bit more recently 👍🏻

@MarkyMarkZwifts

5 ай бұрын

@@notpogi Yeah I'm getting back into it now, thanks, so hopefully I'll be ready for FRR 👊

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

Glad you’re getting stronger mate, still don’t know what to do about FRR.. will you do all of it?

@MarkyMarkZwifts

5 ай бұрын

@@notpogi Thanks mate. I'm not sure either, three weeks is a long time. I'll aim to do the first week and then see how I feel after that. I'm in HAB which should be a better fit for me this time, GHT was too much for me.

I got no feathers in the full race but 5 ghosts and 4 aeros absolutely no use on this course.. got gapped on the 3rd climb when everyone else had feathers. ZRL shouldn't use random power ups in my opinion should all be the same

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

What a nightmare mate, I watched another race where the guy literally got all ghosts, it was so unfair. I’ve no doubt that if I didn’t have the feathers I would have been gapped. I completely agree the way the power-ups are randomly assigned in the scratch races are rubbish. Give everyone the same one or just bin them off! Gl next week mate 👍🏻

GREAT JOB!!! Now what am I going to do with this useless pencil and Sharpie?😢

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Linda 😊 We’re not completely out of the woods yet, I think next week get the pencil / sharpie at the ready!

Well done! Great effort to stay in the group. You have good power for 1 minute so not surprised you managed it. Which B division are you in? I.e B1, B2 etc?

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

Thanks mate! I was pretty surprised I managed it, think the feathers helped! How did you get on this week? We’re in the B3 Northern, been a nice step up from C. Some of the higher B cats seem crazy hard! 👍🏻

@warwickzwifts

5 ай бұрын

I am in B4 this season. Don’t think I had a single feather but the legsnappers were ‘manageable’ so didn’t suffer too much. Didn’t enjoy the 5 ghosts I got but luckily got an aero last time up LS which I held to the end. Went too late on both race 1 and 2 so I went early with 900m to go this time and managed to pull off the win with numbers I haven’t seen in a while. So I was pretty happy. Video is on my channel if you get 5 mins to flick through it.

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

5 ghosts is ridiculous but well done on the win mate that’s brilliant- I’ll have a look at your vid 👍🏻

Awful race I hate that route, was almost dropped on lap 2 and 3 up the snapper had to really push on the downhill to get back on! 😂 Was even worse in FRR doing that 3 times then the KOM. Great performance last night you and your guys did well, whole time I kept seeing you whizz by on the snapper like damn he’s strong tonight!

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Ray appreciate that, not sure where it came from really - I think some decent music throughout probably helped! It’s such a tough course, it did bring back memories of FRR, thank goodness we weren’t going up that KOM! Still a great result for you mate, very respectable 8th 👍🏻

@raymead7016

5 ай бұрын

Cheers Olly! Was hoping for better but those snapper took it out my legs and I just had nothing for the last km! Good luck next week, looking forward to the route lots of points up for grabs!

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

The leg snapper is horrible, hate the fact that the pace always seems to ramp up about 30 seconds before! See you on the start line next week mate 👍🏻

do you need to be part of a team to race the ZRL?

@notpogi

5 ай бұрын

Yes I think so, have a look at this facebook group: facebook.com/share/kQKXkWHpkudkzQdU/?mibextid=K35XfP if you post that you’re looking for a team you’ll get plenty to of offers 👍🏻