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16th place, not bad for an all out 4.1km race to the finish! Congrats Gerben!

In the longer races it usually slows a bit after the fast start, but these races are so hard from start to finish.

44th is good place 😅

Hello Gerben, dsl j'ai failli rouler sur cette étape, mais j'étais occuper à la maison, je vais rouler d'ici ~1h

they should put 520-690 and 690-1000 all in the same class. now over 690 is totally empty, so a lot of good A riders sandbag a little to get in too the lower group, and there they just zone 2 ride, and leave all the B riders in the dust when it really matters.

I want to echo the comments that there should be a short non-erg lead in. The other thing that would be nice is to keep the avg power for the test sprint on the hud for a short time after. As it is now it goes away when you hit the banner. I know I'm never looking at the hud at that point.

Has been a while since I've seen a cat C rider produce 4.2 w/kg for 30 minutes

Gerben, I'm so sorry. I was weak! With the current black Friday deal which gives an extra 50% off on the Zwift play (£50 in the UK) I finally gave in and got myself a "Christmas present". I pledge to not abuse it like our skaven/rat-man "friends" though.

Using my name and comment in the thumbnail is quite an effective way to make me watch your video! :D

Had to do it twice! 1st time was hopeless with virtual gearing. Starts you off in gear 8 and only having 15 seconds to get the trainer into a higher gear wasted the effort. Did it again today and disabled erg mode 30 seconds before the free rides. 625w for 10 seconds 😱 Good power from yourself Gerben 👏

Don't see that works as a sprint test it just gives you 3 sustained efforts not sprints it is like a breakaway effort on a climb not a sprint.

What’s the fastest all around bike again? 2024 Dogma F + Enve 6.7 ?

Soms zijn workouts saai soms zijn ze zwaar, wanneer ik 3 uur duur moet doen en het regent zitten we ook gwn 3 uur aan een stuk tegen 240W op zwift zonder variatie. Vandaag moest ik dan korte blokjes doen maar je moet weten, je wordt niet perse beter omdat je je gesloopt voelt. Herstel is zeer belangrijk voor het lichaam en blessure preventie.

nice that you doing them , so i can have a look whats coming , this is just a test , after the primers ERG should be switched off , and to make it a workout , maybe after the 3 sprints some chill , than an 8-10 min block at FTP and another 3 sprints with less chill inbetween to see the difference

Workouts can be so boring at times and others wonderful. It is really tough to beat a free ride. Congrats on another video Gerben!

This isn't a workout - it's just meant to be 3-shots at fresh leg 15-second power to get a sense of what your maximum will be. That said, Zwift could've put free-ride sections right ahead of the 15-second intervals to let you setup the tested effort by getting gear where you want it and just generally setting up to pop those sprint sections hard. They did something like this in Zwift Academy Pro Prologue and it worked very well. I'll be doing this tomorrow but I'll just be switching off ERG and ignoring the instructions / targets for the intervals before the 15-second tested sections so I can set those up optimally. Everything around the tested sections to your point is just fluff and rest.

Ik doe deze dingen alleen voor de Badges.

Had the same experience today, one guy was holding steady 6wkg all race.. We dropped him in the climbs, but he came back everytime. This is ruining racedynamic, it is impossible to break away and you get no recovery because you must ride treshold just to keep the wheel on the flats.. super anoying!

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Nothing quite like chasing a Z Power Ranger for a whole ride (race 🤔) 😂

the first drafting boost was around 1km long, the second you could easly take emidiatly after first ended and save some power to sprint finish...good job gerben congrats on effort!!!

I’m super new to Zwift. I love the videos. Thank you for posting. I like to see what racing is like on Zwift. I mostly do workouts and some just rides. I’ve only done one race. I don’t understand what the guy was doing that was cheating. Care to explain?

Gerben you machine. Everytime I see your videos I get so inspired. I’m 40 years old, so a little younger than you and I’ve been on zwift for a year but I can’t come close to your strength! But I’ve finally figured out your secret: your hat gives you +13W indoors. Where can I get it 😂?

For me you are first 😊

What an effort! From the go, those w/kg... dang. Great job!!

Incredible performance Gerben! You seem to be in better shape now compared to month before? You produce around 300 watts for a race. Before maybe around 280? Great to see you suffer so much and beeing fit!

how do you recover so fast that you can race like almost every day?

You're like a dog with a bone Gerben 😂 See a cheater and you chance him down 😁 Amazing Zone 4/5 workout 😉

"Chasing a cheat" also known as "Gerben catches a taxi to the finish line" . . . 😂 You did acknowledge this at the end so full credit there -- also, you had to do some real work to stay attached to the taxi so more credit there - fortunately it was a pancake flat course. At the end of the day, good workout chasing a carrot.

The Guy is on a TRON Bike and Z Power… Zwift should ban Him 👍… Good thing it’s not a Race 🤔😂👍🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️

That was a great race.

What a fight!!! Well done Gerben!!! ALL IN!!! 🙂

👌 Gratulation.

Nice job in the "race" Gerben! Way to keep with it and over take him in the sprint at the end. The HR was way up there though. Congrats!

Good race! I had to go early as I was targeting both Jarvis KOM and Loopin Lava segments, so you can say it was a heavy paced ride/race

You think YOU got problems… I just was notified that I have been Zwifting 51 weeks in a Row… Can’t stop now! 🤔😂💪🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️

Great effort Gerben! Seems very fishy to have someone finish 1mn 15 seconds ahead of everyone else. Unless that person was a pro rider.

What wheels are you running Gerben?

Sub-optimal Gerben Volcano KOM = Very optimal Patty Volcano KOM

I was a bit harsh I'm bad as well. Your primary goal is not to win but how you approach and effect the race. If you were really results orientated you would sit in draft and save energy boring 😂👍👍👍👍💪

That start round Jarvis was insane! Surprised you had enough left for the Volcano 🥵 Well done on staying in the top ten 👏

Well done, when Imdid stage 5 that downhill section was a hard as the climb

Yes

Phew, that was cutting it close with your subscription expiration, Gerben! I agree that many of the routes, and Zwift in general, is quite an attractive and well laid out environment to virtually ride in. It probably doesn’t get as much credit as it deserves, visually. Thanks for your video and commentary, and letting us ride along, and sit back and enjoy the scenery!

If Ruben Dhondt is in the race, you kinda know you're racing for 2nd at best . . . unless he's just on a Z2 ride . . . well, even then, you might still be racing for 2nd . . . his zone 2 is different than ours 😂

Well done Gerben. Some handy riders in the group, very tough to keep the wheel. Thats the slowest ive seen you go up the volcano lately though. A couple of days rest needed maybe.

Every ride is a race haha

Tour has been great fun. I've raced ten days straight.

Keep pushing Gerben 💪 I think next year I will switch away from live streaming TTs to your style of content .. great work 👌