Great stuff @ZwiftGopher ! Tough riding to keep it right near TP for that long. Shows in the huge Difficulty Score!
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Been on No Decay for about 3 months. I wasnt fully rested but wanted to try an effort on the Zwift Insider Badge hunt. Pretty thrilled with my results. Effort up the first KOM, then endurance pace the rest of the way. 236 to 242.Started the year out around 228.
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This will be my attempt in a few weeks. Wanting to finally get a subhour effort for AdZ.
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@Tarmac_Tree the sub-hour still eludes me too. 
Achieved 62 min about 3 years ago before an 18-month layoff through injury. After 8 months of rebuilding my fitness from nothing, I’m down to a 64 min AdZ and only 20W off my pre-injury TP. Now I’m back in full structured training I’ve turned to Xert hoping it can push me higher than I’ve ever been!
First ride in the Lakes after two months of mostly base/endurance on the turbo. Almost impossible not to get a BT with a combination of having no Peak Strain in my training so far and some 20% Lakeland Ramps (Cold Fell, in this case)
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I love cycling in the Lakes. Some great roads and even greater climbs.
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The struggle is trying to find a ride that doesn’t have a massive pass to climb! I’m supposed to be in Base phase
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Try here in the Scottish Borders. No passes to climb 
Interesting. I attacked AdZ this week but no BT and my difficulty is significantly different to yours.
I had a 4:20 improve and finally broke the hour (56:51). More importantly my TP is 275 and I held 272 for all 56 minutes. Difficulty was only 117 compared with your 225.
I did push a bit hard at the end but I knew I had achieved my goal and was tired anyway.
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See my post below. I had a hip relacement last April after an accident. TP dropped to about 180 but is now 10w above my best ever - aged 65. Everything is possible.
My secret to getting close then beating the hour is to keep power even across all 21 segments. My last effort for 61:09 was avg 251 (Dec 21) . I averaged 272 this time for a nice improve - 56:52
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This is a bit different from the normal BT MPA images we see. A 100Km ride - very steady MPA - keeping well under TP and I pushed at the end to get inside 3 hours. PP peaked by 17 watts.
As I start riding my bike outside I think that will go up as I cannot really sprint on my turbo bike.
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Tuesday I was feeling fairly strong after taking it easy for a week. I decided to go out a little harder and see if I could grab a breakthrough to refresh my numbers. I didn’t really have a strategy; just attack the hills and keep the pressure on. The result was a really fun ride and a gold breakthrough!
I still felt that my peak number was still a little low. So today, rather than change my planned ride, I decided to simply augment it with some good, solid, sprint efforts. Success! Bronze result for peak power.
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Nice work! Breakthroughs are like a nice little pat on the back, reassuring you that you’re improving from your training!
After having had a nice fakethrough yesterday that pulled my signature down I got a sweet gold breakthrough in today’s race 
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I’ve been using Xert for a few months now and I gotta give kudos to the team for developing a pretty robust and flexible training framework. I’ve been riding harder lately since starting back at the beginning of the year so here are three breakthroughs from this month.
I need to try for some gold breakthroughs.
Indoor:
Outdoor 1:
Outdoor 2:
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