GaryK

I have better number crunching software that I use from semi nerd Training Peaks Premium to full colour nerd WK05 software, so I have scatter  graphs in colour , every bar graph you can think off . I can track power, power at threshold power at V02 max , HR at threshold HR at V02 max power at 150bpm , Time to Exhaustion, fatigue resistance , muscle fibre type VO2 max left and right power analysts left and right power absorbed. And phenotype plus can analyse against segments so do I need to pay for Strava for my dose of nerdisum no not reallly , always found it more of a social inclusion thing 

Oh boy. Definitely worth cracking a beer open for this one. We get Strava premium free in Kilmacolm, it comes with the Farrow and Ball paint catalogue.
or you can pay about two coffees per month to totally nerd out on segments. Join us down the rabbit hole. You know you want to. Take the red pill and see how the world really is...

50 minute group ride, sticky draft on so no-one will be dropped for this.
Remember to follow Johnstone Wheelers on the companion app if you want an invite
Before the event is due to start make sure you have opened up the game and can see your avatar and bike - you can ride about on any course or just sit waiting. When it is 5 minutes to the start of the meetup a dialogue box will appear on the bottom left of the screen  - select that and it will take you to the start of the group ride.
 

Solid 30 minute climb! What else is one going to do on another lockdown Friday evening before the wine gets opened? Nice. 

45 minute group ride, sticky draft on so no-one will be dropped for this. When the 45 minutes is up then if you want you can race to the KOM banner.
Remember to follow Johnstone Wheelers on the companion app if you want an invite
Before the event is due to start make sure you have opened up the game and can see your avatar and bike - you can ride about on any course or just sit waiting. When it is 5 minutes to the start of the meetup a dialogue box will appear on the bottom left of the screen  - select that and it will take you to the start of the group ride.
The circuit is London Loop, i've tried to estimate the event time to mean the sticky draft will turn off about half way up Box Hill on the 2nd lap.

Decent turn out for the first ride...keeping riders together feature worked pretty well meant everyone could work at their own level and get a good workout. 
 
Next ride probably Saturday morning i’ll post more details later

Good turnout with 7 jets and wheelers in the Bs tonight!  more in the Cs and Ds.
Next winter hopefully see a few more of the regulars make a return too 

Fraser Elsby, Kyle Maitland, Fiona Davidson.
Thanks for organising Alan. Not done that for a long while, but it didn't take long to remember why I don't like time trials. 

Sunshine, showers and a strong wind today meant times were never going to be fast. 11 hardy riders braving the conditions, 5 of them Jets. Best turn out we've seen for a few years.
David Cowan 38:36, paid
Fiona Davidson 37:35, paid
Kyle Maitland(J) 33:26
Fraser Elsby (J) 36:47
Martin Mulholland 37:22, paid
Andy Ross 39:59, paid
Ruaridh Mulholland (J) 38:59
James Ross (J), 36:12
Fraser Anderson (J), 42:13
Iain McTavish, 29:43, paid
Marc Kelly, 30:58, paid
Some great times there in the conditions, and congratulations to Iain McTavish for picking up the first silverware of the season. If someone can let me know the missing jets surnames, I'll update the list.
Thanks to all the marshalls, and to my glamorous assistant, Elaine Muirhead at the start/finish line.
I have £18 to transfer to the club account.

Now only 4 weeks to go from minging to pinging

State of play:
Archie has spent all winter at various hot weather training camps so should hit the spring in peak form. However he has also spent the winter annoying everyone so every breakaway attempt will be chased down by eager volunteers.
Gregg is now a wheeler so will that mean everyone is racing for 2nd in the sprints?
Billy is knocking out 1200watts standing starts at the track...if he could just wait a bit longer to unleash that power with about 100m to go he could be a contender
Richie, Darryl and Paul are all flying and about to get faster again after their trip to Spain
Marc, at the start of the ride will be telling everyone how he not been doing much and is really unfit...but then over the next hour will rip everyones legs off
Charlie back in form and as a wheelsucker par excellence will be difficult to shift along the Georgetown
Stuart has been getting some good results at cx so he could be the bunches van der Poel and van Aert
Jess will find out if giving birth is the equivalent of taking EPO in terms of the impact on red blood cells
George has promised to be utterly dominant and I have no reason to doubt his word
Not seen Galeb, Robbie, Paul and Sam out on the bike for a while, i can only assume this is due to lots of secret training!
 
The rest of us? well the only positive i have to say is that we've still got 6 weeks to get fit
 

Happiest moment of my day realising this cool news

Only seven weeks to go until the chainy starts up!  6pm at the bus stop for the first few weeks then back to 6.30 as light allows... who is in?
Still time for the crash diets and panic training to have an impact

Good evening all. 
 
We, the Johnstone Wheelers, are in the very fortunate position to be one of the only clubs in Scotland to have a purpose built clubroom, owned and operated solely by us! 
 
So, why aren't we using this MORE?  
 
I'm proposing we hold a big Summer BBQ at the clubhouse on the 16 Aug 2020 to round of the summer. This is open to all, members, family and children. A small fee would be payed in order to buy food and possibly some soft drinks. If you want a few beers BYOB. A short turbo challenge and a raffle would also be held. 
 
This event would follow a short full club run. 
So, the question is, who's in? And who's interested? 
 
 
 
 

OK Boomers

Some of the best tech is >15 years old. Wheels for example.
I would tend to agree with Iain regarding WhatsApp - its not designed for a club with such large numbers as JWCC but works well for small informal groups. If too large the thread can easily get lost or highjacked (so unlikely I know), plus having a system that pushes notifications for potentially such a large number of club members is likely to become intrusive and then ultimately lack utility. 
I'm not surprised at all that there is such varied feedback about the utility of the forum. In reality using digital tech tends to rely on multiple sources of access to accommodate inclusivity and diversity of users preferences, experiences and needs. Some people will be quite satisfied with the Website access via computer, others accessing the bunch forums via their smartphone, others news updates via facebook, strava or instagram or tinder (George).
Obviously one relatively accessible solution is to have access to push style notifications via your smartphone. It would be interesting to survey members, regarding their use of mobile phone to access bunch content online, their preferences for this or if current they do use a smartphone but do not access JWCC content via this then what would encourage this sort of usage. 
One solution, depending on users preferences would be to have a JWCC Mobile App that could push notifications in a more controlled way to users, for example social events, club rides, club events (e.g. Reliabilities, Chocolate Series). However, this would require central administration time and resource to update. There are some off the shelf products on the market that are worth exploring can can be made available via App store and Play store. I'm not sure the costs but basic 'fit all' platforms are likely to be economical for small businesses, clubs and societies. I did a brief search online but to give you an example check out:
appsmakerstore.com
https://youtu.be/zkQPHX0wJJE
 
Anyway just a thought
 
Andy
 
 

Shame. Would have been awesome to see the Crit King lay down the power....

If you don’t like it ride with your own club. All 2 of you. Does that constitute a chain “gang”?

There is a Couriers WhatsApp Saturday group that is winding me up. The change in the Thursday format has been posted up but it seems there are some people (John Craig and Garry Dunn) who want the ride to be a social ride operating at about 32kph (20mph for the old timers).
The joy for me in the chain gang is cooperating to go faster than you can on your own. In a low grade Cat 3/4 race the average speed for 2hrs+ of an un-cooperative bunch of cyclists is 38-40kph. If we can't cooperate and achieve 40kph for one hour we aren't cooperating! Gregg O Malley has won races on long solo breaks averaging this speed on his own. And no way should Gregg beat our determined chain gang who are working for each other.
Smooth and fast. When a chain gang is in full flow there is nothing finer! 45kph down the Westferry should be a breeze.

Some photos I took tonight of the TTers!
G
 

Some photos I took tonight of the TTers!
G
 

Some photos I took tonight of the TTers!
G
 

Some photos I took tonight of the TTers!
G
 

Some photos I took tonight of the TTers!
G
 

Some photos I took tonight of the TTers!
G