*REVISED 07/04/24, 11/02/24*, *30/04/24, *22/08/24 *10/10/24

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Hi everyone, just wanted to throw a little blog out there about how the Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays Muckers Races/Events will go in 2024.

ITEMS THAT APPLY TO ALL DAYS:

The first point is to use these as you want to! We call them races and set them up as such just so we have a set start time and if you are up for a race you can go for it and not upset those who “thought” it was a group ride. Some decide to do recovery, group rides, zone rides, which is perfectly fine and acceptable! Do what you and your body feels is right!

We will always try and use a challenge route before anything else.

If you want to be notified about the latest organized races, when we create the 7:05pm weekday race or any time Sunday races, I (Mucker1974) send invites to everyone in my friends list on ROUVY at the same time.(This is the only time we sent the invites although you can register for the races whenever you want) So this is a great reason to be friends on ROUVY. We have realized however that sending invites to everyone for all races created at all the different time, really fills up your invited section and your only option to stop this is “friendship termination” So we won’t be doing that in 2024, in 2024 everyone gets the 19:05 invite on days with multiple start times, but please use this as a reminder that there will be other races on the same day but at the times listed further down in this blog. We also list the races on our website, we send reminders to our Facebook group and ROUVYS Facebook group on the day and also on Strava. And sometimes we are very lucky and ROUVY themselves make the races official.

In the summer months we cut back on the special mentions but once things start getting full again, we will start the mentions. We used to use Heart rate as a way to check that you were being as legit as possible but since the last big update, ROUVY have made it impossible to do this so we are back to trust! So please don’t make a fool out of us both by cheating then getting a special mention in front of someone else, just because you cheated.

We allow all trainers, Unless its a championship 1st race where we do a “Smart Trainer only” 1st race (ROUVYS way to sperate smart and non-smart trainers/bikes) as in an ideal world, it’d be great if everyone was on a smart trainer, especially in a championship event as these are really meant to be as close to racing in the real word on real bikes as we possibly can from out pain caves! . But the remaining races will be open to all trainers. *From September 2024, all the extra start times will be smart trainer only

All start times are UK or GMT for the sake of this blog.

If you see an asterisk (*) next to ride title, this means the Muckers Worldwide Kit is waiting for your Avatar when you complete that ride.

We will create the races and also send the links to ROUVY to hopefully get them made official so they show up when everyone logs into ROUVY and looks at upcoming events. But if you want that time slot to work, you need to help promote to friends, other riders etc etc as the more you have on it, the better it will be!

SUNDAY

We usually start our Sunday Races at 08:30 but sometime they might be later, but not by much. *FROM SUNDAY THE 26TH OF MAY, START TIMES WILL BE 9:15am. Normally we try and use whichever Challenge Route look the more likely to be a climbing route and use that, or we throw a few shorter/flat/interesting ones together to create a mini championship of sorts. *No Blog for Sundays unless its something a bit out of the ordinary and deserves one.

TUESDAYS

*From September 2024 we have 5 start times. We are actually running the 2LATE4ME version a day earlier so it’ll be on Monday night at 23:30. We are doing this to help with the blogs and results. So when i sit down to do the blog on the Tuesday night, i don’t have to re visit it the day after so i can let the late version run. Because its now going to be run on the day before, we will already have those results. 2EARLY4ME will now be at a new start time of 4:30, RISE&RIDE at 9:30, EARLY-ON at 12:30 and the main race at 19:05. Blog later that night or Wednesday at the Latest.

THURSDAYS

Championship day. We will run month long championships every Thursday. 6 start times for this with the main race being the 19:05 one. other start times are: 23:30 on the Wednesday, 04:30, 9:30, 12:30, and 20:30. these additional races rider finishing times to be blended into the main 19:05 results. One race blog featuring final positions to be published Friday or Saturday at the latest. Remember, invites will be sent to all friends but only for the 7:05pm Race, so if that time is no good for you, 5 other starts times are also out there so get registered for those so you don’t miss it.

IF YOU ARE IN THE TOP 50 PLACINGS AT THE END OF THE MONTH, YOU WILL HAVE YOUR LATEST RACE CHECKED FOR HEART RATE DATA. IF NO DATA FOUND, OR WE SEE IT AS STRANGE LOOKING DATA, YOU WILL NOT GET ANY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS.

ALL THE ABOVE IS SUBJECT TO ANY CHANGES.

The above is how we “want” it to run next year. 2023 has been our first year at this and yes, we have made some mistakes, but we do try and learn from them. We think the above should work, but anything can change can’t it and we will change it if we feel we need to. We are just 2 Guys doing this in our spare time so please remember this as we go through 2024!

regards, Neil and Kyle.