rouvy's challenges
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rouvy's challenges
rouvy has challenges, one of the things l like about it. i came across this one:
Conquer Climbs in France | EPIC
i rode Col du Granon | France ride yesterday, pretty intense. averaged over 400 feet per mile. i was planning on doing the Alpe d'Huez | France, the second easiest ride today but got my butt kicked shoveling about a ton of snow from my driveway. (we had quite a lot of snow in reno yesterday. for the water year (beginning oct 1) we are almost done with precipitation, with more in the forecast!)
i think this ride is going to kill me: https://my.rouvy.com/virtual-routes/detail/93502
do any of you do the challenges? do you find them challenging?
Conquer Climbs in France | EPIC
i rode Col du Granon | France ride yesterday, pretty intense. averaged over 400 feet per mile. i was planning on doing the Alpe d'Huez | France, the second easiest ride today but got my butt kicked shoveling about a ton of snow from my driveway. (we had quite a lot of snow in reno yesterday. for the water year (beginning oct 1) we are almost done with precipitation, with more in the forecast!)
i think this ride is going to kill me: https://my.rouvy.com/virtual-routes/detail/93502
do any of you do the challenges? do you find them challenging?
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rouvy has challenges, one of the things l like about it. i came across this one:<br /><br /><a href="https://my.rouvy.com/challenges/detail/298">Conquer Climbs in France | EPIC</a><br /><br />i rode Col du Granon | France ride yesterday, pretty intense. averaged over 400 feet per mile. i was planning on doing the Alpe d'Huez | France, the second easiest ride today but got my butt kicked shoveling about a ton of snow from my driveway. (we had quite a lot of snow in reno yesterday. for the water year (beginning oct 1) we are almost done with precipitation, with more in the forecast!)<br /><br />i think this ride is going to kill me: <a href="https://my.rouvy.com/virtual-routes/detail/93502">https://my.rouvy.com/virtual-routes/detail/93502</a><br /><br />do any of you do the challenges? do you find them challenging?
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I finished that challenge a few days back. Took a break during the descent on the double climb but there were parts that kicked back uphill so couldn't coast all the way down, which was annoying.
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i just did the alpe today. it has been a while since i did the zwift version but it seemed very similar sans monster. i think zwift did a good job replicating this ride. i did not know the top of the climb featured a town called alpe d'huez, thought that was just the name of the climb. would love to do this in real life.
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Just finished this today. wow was that last ride one hell of a ride. as i was going through the telegraph ride i keep thinking that the fastest rider had done it in about 2:35 hours. i was pretty upbeat about my performance, id come in only a few minutes behind. then reality sunk in when i finished and saw that he had done it in 1:35 hours, i was only an hour behind! that last hill at the end was a doozy after all that.
that first place rider has almost 3 hours on me
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that first place rider has almost 3 hours on me
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Those who did Alpe de Huez/Zwift on both Rouvy and Zwift - which was harder for you? did the real-world video footage make any difference or any other points you would make about the comparison? I want to do the challenge and I am hesitant on which platform I should start.
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Those who did Alpe de Huez/Zwift on both Rouvy and Zwift - which was harder for you? did the real-world video footage make any difference or any other points you would make about the comparison? I want to do the challenge and I am hesitant on which platform I should start.
Climbing on Rouvy is harder. The bikes weigh more and I suspect the rolling resistance/aero drag of the physics model is higher compared to Zwift as well. To ride a route that counts toward a Rouvy challenge, you must ride at 100% difficulty, whereas Zwift defaults to 50% (meaning upward slopes are halved) and can be changed to whatever you want to make it easier if you aren't riding a training setup with virtual gears.
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Those who did Alpe de Huez/Zwift on both Rouvy and Zwift - which was harder for you? did the real-world video footage make any difference or any other points you would make about the comparison? I want to do the challenge and I am hesitant on which platform I should start.
Note that the scenery on Alpe du Zwift is totally different to the real climb. But the gradient profile is accurate. That’s the only obvious difference to me.
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i just did the alpe today. it has been a while since i did the zwift version but it seemed very similar sans monster. i think zwift did a good job replicating this ride. i did not know the top of the climb featured a town called alpe d'huez, thought that was just the name of the climb. would love to do this in real life.
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Just finished this today. wow was that last ride one hell of a ride. as i was going through the telegraph ride i keep thinking that the fastest rider had done it in about 2:35 hours. i was pretty upbeat about my performance, id come in only a few minutes behind. then reality sunk in when i finished and saw that he had done it in 1:35 hours, i was only an hour behind! that last hill at the end was a doozy after all that.
that first place rider has almost 3 hours on me.
that first place rider has almost 3 hours on me
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12-03-23, 05:47 PM
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thanks. that was done back in January. i've only just restarted Rouvy again for the season. haven't started any challenges since i'm leaving for Korea next week for a while but looking forward to the challenges again. they have some nice ones lined up.
