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Great effort that mate, nice job.
Anyone going the Academy workouts, you are going to love #7...one word...brutal! 3 hard sets that get harder as you progress and just when you think it's over, a full 4 minutes at zone 5 to finish you off.
My legs had gone at the end, plus the lungs...the hardest yet I've done. I won't be doing that again...ever!
I did that last night and whilst it was tough I didn't think it was too bad. It frustrates me that they jump from big watts to tiny at times so that it's hard to drop or gain in the time frames though.
To be honest I find the ZA workouts a bit easy and tend to come off them feeling underwhelmed.
Hi Is this the right spot? Brought a Kickr Snap to help with lockdown Cardio and now using Zwift . Set it up on Monday .. and its a bit good . Training in my house no distractions at any time I like . Put 60 miles on in the first three days and will be back on it again in a bit . Need to sort a few things out with the set up - have a question.
Im currently using my laptop but have an iPhone 11 which I have ordered a hdmi out and bar holder .. I intend on hooking that to a wall mounted TV - How long roughly would the phone last and can I use my Bluetooth headphones at the same time or does that fubar things ?
2nd'ly I'm a leisure rider if truth be told not an athlete - whats the best way to get the most out of this - I did a quick 30k on watopia for the first ride, 20k yesterday morning on Innsbruck yesterday pm did an SST training for just over 40k.
Would like to improve my fitness
Any hints tips observations and directions very welcome.
Can't believe I didn't do this earlier - Just now need to renovate the basement for a permanent home for it all
DOn't know about with Apple, but if i mirror my screen on Android to Firestick i then cannot do music as well on my phone through a BT speaker.
There's no answer as to 'what'. Some prefer training, some prefer riding, some prefer racing, it's all up to you.
Thank you for the reply !
@makkag follow @dangeourbrain if you are interested in a Sunday Hills ride. This week is 8am Dust in the Wind. Its a bit like a club ride but we wait for people. There is a STW race series on Tuesday evenings (there is a thread for that) and a TTT on a Thursday evening if you fancy joining in some racing.
The issue with using the hdmi out from your phone is that you then can't use the companion app.
I assume using the laptop is a pain hence the move to the phone but I'd consider finding a cheapo zwift phone purely to run the companion app, Spotify and discord and have your iPhone plugged in to the wall at the same time as the hdmi using one of the dual hdmi/power adapter things.
To be honest I find the ZA workouts a bit easy and tend to come off them feeling underwhelmed.
@mrhoppy Then you must be well fitter than me or there is something wrong with my setup...I was proper dying on this one, although I admit the others I haven't found too bad, nothing like this one.
@oopnorth, I think it's what you are used to. I've been doing a bunch of crit races so 8 minute sessions of over unders with easy rests between is way less intense. The ramp at the end stung but I considered finishing the Alpe when it was done (I've been doing ZA sessions up the Alpe to get towards the Tron).
Crit racing I'm holding around FTP as a baseline with sprints on the climbs/shut down breaks. It's like that session wound up by 20%.
I went out for an hour, the first 20 mins being in the local woods where my lad and his mates go jumping. I'm not as good as him as you know, but i do need to try and keep my hand in, so was messing about there, i still need more speed for one particular jump to land where they are... they're crazy fast on it. Mrs Weeksy has been abusing me since i told her "You went to the woods to practice where our 12 year old plays??? " "errrrm, yeah 🙂 "
I then finished off with some scenic riding, that's about 3/4 of a mile from my door, top picture is over towards Didcot/Harwell, bottom one is on the way to Goring
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Ahh that makes sense. I've not done any crits yet, so I probably don't have that constant sprint power, which kind of also shows in the weekly STW races.
Something I need to build on and get involved in the Crits at some point, but I'm sure I will just be making up the numbers at first.
Thanks again for the replies - Laptop not a huge issue just less kit to plug in and get running if i wanted a blast as set up in the spare bedroom atm - but do have some old phones lying around so maybe another option. Sunday will be a bit early for me I think and hope it will be an outdoor ride day - give me a few weeks to get used to this and get a bit of my fitness back up and I will join in - found and followed - seen the STW bit and added to my name Dean McGarry
Thanks again
im sure the starts are getting harder!!, 375w for 2min10 before any semblance of it settling down
18:15 Seaside Sprint race, just hard hard all the way, kept getting + power ups which is no good when everyone else was on feathers, kept to the front of the group on the little climb into the volcano so didn't get dropped, and i thought the course finished on the seafront, but was on the sprint line, the short sharp right strung it all out for the downhill run to the sprint line, got caught too far back and it was just a loooong line of riders, nearly gave up as i was right at the back, however decided to sprint, and here's a lesson, always pedal through the line, looked to pass 2 right on it
i got 3rd in B, +2.800 behind the winner, should have been up there for the win, the downhill run in to the finish suited me
4th was +2.801 !!! a literal knats cock
and 5th was +2.868
good racing
great job !
Picked up my Kickr Snap today. First ride with this and it feels like the resistance isn't changing much.
My bike has a Quarg power meter,should I be using the Kickr or power meter to control the Kickr?
I use kickr fe-c on both power and controllable.
But I don't have a power meter
Legs still feel OK after last night so going to do a lunchtime crit. Anyone in for 12.30 futureworks race? It is only 6 laps so short sharp and fast. I have entered C but only 3 riders so far!
As the race is so short I can prob keep my power up above a C as it should take less than 20 mins - should I be entering B or will I get pulled back by the anti-sandbagging feature? Have only done a couple of crits so dont really remember the course!
I'm not sure i even know how to ride and make power any more so taking 2-3 days off.
My legs clearly don't like how i've been riding lately. I've only had 3 days off in the last 25 it seems... So, the legs are saying no.
Go on weeksy you know you want to...
I really need to try a crit sometime but the times are all wrong for me...or they are 12 laps which I'm not sure I want to do for my first one.
My legs were also good this morning which means I should have gone harder last night! So I did an Academy anaerobic workout this morning to destroy them properly.
Legs still feel OK after last night so going to do a lunchtime crit. Anyone in for 12.30 futureworks race? It is only 6 laps so short sharp and fast. I have entered C but only 3 riders so far!
Looking on ZwiftPower it's 10 laps??
I was thinking about doing a ramp test today but may try a crit instead if the timings work for me.
In the companion app when you sign up it says 6 laps for C - it will be a surprise how long it is!
I might give it a go, I'll see how I get on with work this morning.
I've not done any kind of high intensity stuf for months so this will probably kill me off!
IT does indeed seem to be 6 laps... Sadly it's 6 of the dolphin not the Bell layout, but yeah i'll ride with you Robbo.... at least for some of it.
Legs feel hammered from last night effort but I might try a poodle beforehand and if they loosen at all, I’ll jump on the crit with you. I’m just about still a c in zwiftpower and it’s likely to be a quick race anyway.
LOL it will be quick for Robbo.
Weirdy in last nights race i couldn't use my lowest gear at all, i just couldn't drive the pedals. My overall performance was way way down on what i'd have hoped... So we'll see if it was a bit of a glitch in me or see how badly i need some time off.
Damn you Robbo 😀
Will give it a good go - might die on my arse and find out my legs feel awful lol
I can't see anything othr than a win for you Robbo.
It could be interesting because it's an anti-sandbagging race so could be easy for people who are actual Cs to shatter the threshold and end up getting the dunce hat.
Do you start the sprint before the hairpin at the end or after? Where is the best place to go.
How does the anti-sandbagging work, will it let me enter the C cat despite being a B?
yes but you may get dunce hat which slows you by about 33%
Right, I'm signed up for it...
So long as I don't miss the start!
Top race. I needed something decent as a PU for the last hill, set my PR on it but not enough.
Just managed to beat Robbo after he died and slowed in last 800m. But couldn't catch the lads in front of me.
That was hard work, combined with last night the legs are now totally gone. I got an out of category warning when I entered the race but no cone, obvs didn't put out enough watts. Due to combination of injury, lazyitis and beer have put on 8kg over last two months so w/kg has gone down. Good effort all round STW and Well done Kirky think you will end up first on ZP.
Got a power up that looked like some sort of vehicle but not van, WTF is that?
Steamroller. Stops the cobbles if you have a terrain trainer.
Have Kickr so no. Had that for the last lap but was too scared to use it:)
That was bloody hard work!
8th out of 11, not exactly great but consdering my lack of riding and the fact I've not raced for abot four years I can't complain!
That Steamroller...what I read yesterday was that it smooths the dirt areas on Zwift, like the jungle for example, for road bikes so that you don't have that horrible draggy feeling for 30 seconds. It also said you can use it on the bridge and inside the mountain section of the jungle to speed up the MTB in those areas where it becomes slower than a road bike.
Also works on cobbles I think
That was good fun over a lunchtime. I need to ride smarter on that course - though. Put out too many watts early on I think and legs just went after the last climb.
Last night I got a new 15min average power best at 298w - managed 303w for 15 min today.
Well done - weeksy, kirky and mossimus
I might make that my Wednesday lunchtime workout now.
EDIT: Oh and a 1w FTP increase to 281w so only 3w of my summer peak now - just need to push through it this time on the way to 300w!
Nah me and Steve who finished an hair in front of me, both booted at 3.7 and 3.6. Steve’s says UPG so take it he should be upgrading, mine is still WKG, so wkg too high yet the guy in first averaged 4.5 must be a little one at 44kg. Oh well. I think I’ll ride B for shorter or flattish watt bomb races and c only for hilly and longer races until I’m forced to do b for all.
I spotted Weeksy had edged onto the protium, well done it was tough at the pointy end. I was hoping for a feather as well.
Got a ghost which isn’t too useful on that course, in the opposite direction it’s handy though. Good to carry it and drop it just before the banner and the rollers, really go for it and hope to get a feather as you pass through then you can open a gap and power up the hill without giving a free tow to everybody behind so really splits the group. Tactics😎
I might make that my Wednesday lunchtime workout now.
I'm always up for lunch rides.
I'm afraid i'm out of your series though. I slept terribly last night waking up about 10 times with twitchy legs !!
the guy in first averaged 4.5 must be a little one at 44kg
showing as being a U20, which really must put him about 13 as that's my lads weight lol.
Friday mornings at 9:45 there's usually 2-3 teenagers.. although why they're not at school i have no idea.
I was a gnats whisker away from being dropped 3rd time up the hill, Robbo, Moss and Kirky all went with Bouton at 5w/kg.... if the guy in front of me hadn't dropped an aero at the exact right time, i'd have been shelled out.
I’m afraid i’m out of your series though. I slept terribly last night waking up about 10 times with twitchy legs !!
Not an option I am afraid - already done your handicap for next week!