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After my fun escapades with a vEverest a few weeks ago, I feel my life is lacking furture challenges that involve me sitting in my kitchen, staring at the 24 inch monitor whilst I spin away on the turbo...
After chatting with @kirky72 on our Sunday Hills ride this weekend, I mentioned I've still several longer routes on Zwift to tick off..
He jokingly suggested doing them all in one day...
I jokingly listened...and thought...and thought...and plotted...
And came up with (something like) "Pretzel saturday"... (or Sunday..)
Yes folks... I've still ALL the Pretzel loops to do, so why not do them all in one day...
Over 300km of Wattopia's finest roads... and almost 6500m of climbing!!
First up would be the standard Pretzel :
72km and 1300m of climbing...
Then, after a quick reapplication of bum creme, I'd hit the Mega Pretzel...
A wee bit longer at 107km with 1600m of elevation...whooop whoop!!
Then..you gottit.... the Uber Pretzel...
This joyous beast offers 128km, with only 2300 ruddy meters of climbing... finishing atop the beautiful Alp Du Zwift!!!
I'll have a look in the diary again and come up with a date for this way in advance, and maybe a few from here could join me and help encourage me along!
I'll do it in the order above, and probably start each ride as a meetup (either made in advance, or can make one and invite people with, like, 30 min to go before each one kicks off....)... therefore you'll have the opportunity to ride wichever route you need/fancy!!
What do we reckon... 9-12 hours at a very rough guess....
Might even be harder than the vEverest, as more cycling this time...but..less climbing... hmm.....
DrP
Why? Just why?
I mean, good luck to you, but your arse is going to be in shreds by the end of that.
Doesn't sound hard enough, why don't you start early on a Tuesday and finish with the Tuesday race ?
I'll join you for the race 🙂
Pray for DrP's gooch.
Could we join in parts?
I've done them other than the Uber Pretzel (that sounds better then hell no, I'd die doing the full session!).. I would be up for joining for the last stint. Not sure I'd be able to keep up with you even after you've done the other pretzels - but could be fun if we get a crowd.
Doesn’t sound hard enough, why don’t you start early on a Tuesday and finish with the Tuesday race ?
I’ll join you for the race
Great plan!
haha, epic stuff.
If i am free i will pop on for a small segment to give some encouragement!
I do like the tuesday idea with the race as the final effort 😀
Lockdown has been hard on you hasn't it?
You need to see a doctor.....
having done both metric and imperial centuries on Zwift i can safely say you are insane, is this a cry for help? 🙂
i'll happily join and offer some support save in the knowledge I can bail when ever I want!
Have you looked outside recently? Weather's been fantastic.
Insane...but why not if you think you can! Good luck with that 😀
I still need the Uber Pretzel so I may be tempted to join but I will need to be at my pace, especially on the Alpe, by that time you may be slowing down anyway!!
I'll see if I can join once you have it in place.
I know it's about doing routes you haven't completed before, but there's the opportunity to invent something new .Throw in the London Pretzel too and suddenly you've created "vPretzelling".
I meant to join you on Sunday but got distracted by that sun thing that was out. That sounds like an absolute beast. I think I’ve got a couple of them to do to so would be tempted to join you for one.
Crazy crazy man.... good luck and enjoy ! (sorta)
wait a minute... wait a minute...
where do you get those cool zwift graphics from?