The ARGUS 2025 Thread (AKA CTCT)

[DieselnDust]

12 minutes ago, Pure Savage said:

How do you think they got there

jumped into the 1A start group

[Bub Marley]

6 minutes ago, Skubarra said:

Do they though? I almost never see any consequences for people who jump ahead to start in earlier groups. And to be fair to the marshals, also something very difficult to police in practice and one trouble maker can occupy a marshal for minutes while 10 others slip trough.

I know they’ve done it in PPA events so assuming the same will happen for the Argus. 

[JM_NEL]

22 minutes ago, NC_lurker said:

Thanks for this. Please can you add 5D.

5D Included!

Here's a histogram for 5D as well.

[Wannabe]

10 minutes ago, Skubarra said:

Do they though? I almost never see any consequences for people who jump ahead to start in earlier groups. And to be fair to the marshals, also something very difficult to police in practice and one trouble maker can occupy a marshal for minutes while 10 others slip trough.

I started in 2D, and already in our loading/holding pen, when some 1D riders tried to get into their group by moving the barricade of our loading pen (1D was at this stage just loading for their scheduled start) when the one female Marshall stormed them, stopping them from loading and shouted "you are late, you missed your start, now you will start later" and pushed them back into our group. Obviously, we all remonstrated with her, showing 1D is just loading for their start. It took quite a few minutes before she conceded and allowed them to load. You should have seen the look of relieve on the 1D riders faces. Strangely, not one of them opposed her, it was us 2D riders who showed her to the errors of her rude ways.

Going up Chappies, just before the tunnel, a 4A rider came blasting past us on his E-bike, and a few of us huffing and puffing up the climb, remarked that there is no way he started in the correct start group. At that stage we just saw 3A and 3B riders starting to filter past us, so he was definitely a huge outlier. 

 

[NC_lurker]

26 minutes ago, JM_NEL said:

5D Included!

Here's a histogram for 5D as well.

Awesome, thanks 👍 

[The Ouzo]

14 hours ago, Skubarra said:

Sub-3's till one 1F, definitely was the year to chase it...

yeah, if I look at the same chart from last year, Sub 3 only up to 1B. Looking at my start batch of 1D, they were around 20min quicker than last year.

So actually my time is 20 minutes slower than last year even though actual time is only around 3 minutes slower.

[Pure Savage]

32 minutes ago, DieselnDust said:

jumped into the 1A start group

No, he started in 1D, then pullled the front of C, B and 2 guys from D to 1A. Said 1A was soft pedaling.

[Pure Savage]

31 minutes ago, JM_NEL said:

5D Included!

Here's a histogram for 5D as well.

Interesting to see how many elites did not stay in the box. Glad I managed to stay in my box and not be an outlier!

[andydude]

Any hubbers here at the start of @ 😀

[andydude]

55 minutes ago, JM_NEL said:

5D Included!

Here's a histogram for 5D as well.

Thank you JM!

This boxplot actually shows that the seeding works out quite well. Yes, of course there will be outliers for various reasons, but in general there is a nice trend going slower times down the groups.

[DieselnDust]

40 minutes ago, Pure Savage said:

No, he started in 1D, then pullled the front of C, B and 2 guys from D to 1A. Said 1A was soft pedaling.

I call BS . one 60-64 cat guy pulled 9 min on a big fairly well knitted group?......

[andydude]

Some segments' average power stats from @ 

Edinburg 1.72km 5.5% │ 388w 4:14

Smits last 1.65km 5.5% │ 347w 4:04

Little Chappies 1.42km 4.1% │ 365w 2:56

Big Chappies 1.72km 4.8% │ 355w 4:27

Small Suikerbossie 0.62km 4.7% │ 351w 1:24

Big Suikerbossie 1.86km 6.7% │ 363w 5:27

[i24]

2 hours ago, The Ouzo said:

I watched a 2A rider go into our 1D starting pen right infront of a marshal.

Don't these riders get disqualified? 

(Would be a simple SQL query on the results).

[nyc_cpt]

1 hour ago, Bianchisti said:

4C, D & E were "Internationals otherwise unseeded" who seems to have gone faster then all the seeded riders in Groups 2 and 3 

I was in this group, my first CTCT. It was a wildly diverse set of people, fun riders to competitive roadies, would be nice to have a way to seed the competitive folks up a little further up.

That said, I can’t really complain. I had a blast, hit the time I wanted to hit, and didn’t really see any particularly unsafe behavior.

[Alliesmeister]

2 hours ago, ChrisF said:

 

On Android, when you see the "first page" on strava, swipe the map up.

 

EDIT - the above worked when getting a notification of a friends ride.

 

When I now click on the ride, going via Strava not the notification link, I open the map and see the PB's.

 

 

not a paid member, so would expect others to see this as well.

Thanks for the reply @ChrisF!

I appreciate it. Still not seeing on my side for my own rides or others, but maybe it appears in future after an app update.

Edited yesterday at 10:29 AM by Alliesmeister

[Pure Savage]

15 minutes ago, DieselnDust said:

I call BS . one 60-64 cat guy pulled 9 min on a big fairly well knitted group?......

https://www.strava.com/activities/13833134834 

There we go...

This guy also stuck with it for a while... https://www.strava.com/activities/13829533196