Indievelo racing
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Indievelo racing
Anyone else tried the different racing events in this?
I tried a velodrome sprint race in this tonight and it was an absolute blast. Sprint every 4 laps for points. Total of 20km. There were about 75 people but I know loads were bots, and we got auto-penned into 25s. I think having never raced on there before I may have been put in a slightly slower group because I was 4th or higher in all the sprints and picked up the win. I deliberately went early at the end of lap 35 and managed to maintain a solo breakaway that I held to get 1st for lap 36 and lap 40.
I tried a velodrome sprint race in this tonight and it was an absolute blast. Sprint every 4 laps for points. Total of 20km. There were about 75 people but I know loads were bots, and we got auto-penned into 25s. I think having never raced on there before I may have been put in a slightly slower group because I was 4th or higher in all the sprints and picked up the win. I deliberately went early at the end of lap 35 and managed to maintain a solo breakaway that I held to get 1st for lap 36 and lap 40.
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That sounds like fun. Maybe I should try it.
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Anyone else tried the different racing events in this?
I tried a velodrome sprint race in this tonight and it was an absolute blast. Sprint every 4 laps for points. Total of 20km. There were about 75 people but I know loads were bots, and we got auto-penned into 25s. I think having never raced on there before I may have been put in a slightly slower group because I was 4th or higher in all the sprints and picked up the win. I deliberately went early at the end of lap 35 and managed to maintain a solo breakaway that I held to get 1st for lap 36 and lap 40.
I tried a velodrome sprint race in this tonight and it was an absolute blast. Sprint every 4 laps for points. Total of 20km. There were about 75 people but I know loads were bots, and we got auto-penned into 25s. I think having never raced on there before I may have been put in a slightly slower group because I was 4th or higher in all the sprints and picked up the win. I deliberately went early at the end of lap 35 and managed to maintain a solo breakaway that I held to get 1st for lap 36 and lap 40.
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Have tried a bunch of different formats on there (like the sprint races at the velodrome - kierin races are a bear but fun - and the team points races the best). Due to surgery (and subsequent complications), I haven't been on there since the end of December (so I don't have experience with the new tactical positioning), but I've really enjoyed the races there. Graphics and variety of courses aren't as good as Zwift, but I like the race dynamics a lot. Been riding there since April/May of last year.
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Here's one I set up like half an hour before it started (enough time to make the event and then warm up - takes like 5 minutes to make your own race) with a 5 km neutral start before things went nuts:
Here's one that was organized by my team (I think I was the only one human in my pen though):
Here's one with a team race where I had a teammate in the same pen, but he was on a different sub-team so we each had our own teams competing against each other:
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I wonder if this is why there have been leaked zwift rides on a velodrome.
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Many of the formats, I'm really not good at, but they make me push myself to figure them out.
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I've been dabbling a little bit with indieVelo for a while now, mostly pace bots and sometimes my TrainingPeaks workouts.
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Are you on their discord channel? I think that's the easiest way to find a team.
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