Zwift, my journey, my weight and my fitness.

Does anyone else really dislike the city loops? I have no motivation to ride at all when it's Richmond or London

I don't mind London (especially as the route passes my office which is beside Tower Bridge) but I do find Richmond a tad boring.

I quit Zwift because Richmond has been there too long and the RideLondon course is pants. I wish there was facility to choose which course you wanted to ride but I suppose that would need a lot more server power. I'm back on Trainer Road at the mo.

I like both really. The Richmond flat really gives me the best chance to perform to my strengths, to get the power down and just crack on with it... For me, the scenery isn't really all encompasing, the riding style/strengths are also a major factor to me.
But i do like the inner city type riding of Richmond, makes me feel like a naughty boy jumping junctions and nailing it 🙂

I like them personally as they seem to suit me. London Classique especially as it's short so you get to do the climb a few times, which also is short enough that you can really smash it so I always pick up a few places there. Similarly the Richmond Worlds climb is pretty brutal but short enough that I can really give it 100%.

TBH I tend to get tunnel vision when I'm racing; don't really have any spare energy to look at the view or whatever when I'm giving it 100% trying to beat whoever's around me!

You can choose to ride a different course other than the current calendar selection using [url= http://zwifthacks.com/zwift-preferences-now-has-volcano-route-selection/ ]Zwift Preferences[/url]

Well the Wahoo Kickr Snap has arrived and been configured. Only question i have really is when you set up as a controllable trainer you get 2 option.

The Wahoo Kickr and the Wahoo FE-C I chose the first of them.

I've tested it in Zwift for nearly 15s... LOL... awesome 🙂

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you need "fe-c" for controllable resistance (I believe)

Does anyone else really dislike the city loops? I have no motivation to ride at all when it's Richmond or London

Cheers for the Zwift hack link. The preference thing is looks pretty useful for a few things, not just picking a non scheduled map.

I'm not a fan on London Classique, not sure why because as a heavy rider I should like it. Have only done Richmond once, the Worlds course and I liked it.

BRS TT 7:05pm tonight anyone?

😥

weeksy, you should watch it and make a commentary vid !

(I'm out, so therefore I'm oot)

I'm a Scouser, no one would understand a word I said!

all the better - then send it to that nathan geezer to see if he'll give you a job

go 'ed - I could do da'

etc

/racist

Love how that fella says my name. Stockton appears to be pronounced Staaaackton

BRS TT - didn't have the legs this evening. Actually not had Zwift legs for a while now.... 😐

BRS TT too. They have different category limits to KISS so I entered D. Looks like l might have won cat D.

And when does the race timing start/finish?

Can you get on Zwiftpower jam bo?

I can't seem to load it...

I managed to load the live results once and now can't.

Results are up, looks like you got a promotion 🙂

Won't load at all now. Probably should have gone in C but most races I'm around the 2.9ish mark

No leeway on the cat limits then. I posted 2.9, limit is 2.89

I did the 20.15 WBR flat lap but annoyingly the results don't get posted on zwiftpower.com
Then decided to have a crack at box hill, I'm sure I selected London Loop but it never took me to box hill 😕

Had a couple of crashes mid-ride in the last two days. Is it just the village all waking up and using 'my internet' or does this happen to others - mid ride on a training program... a bit frustrating although I managed to salvage this mornings files from the .fit on the computer. Yesterdays part 1 pre-crash disappeared.
Really enjoying it and starting to look at racing in D to begin with... another FTP soon and see if I'm making progress 🙂

Get in there Chimp.... Just do it... The racing really does help passing time.

Slowly i'm getting there.. I'm not ready yet, ut i'd say after 5 days the leg is about 75% now.. It's only at full extension i get any pain, walking is fairly decent. I'm going to strengthen my resolve to wait and stick it out though. There's no point getting it back to 90% and then making it all rubbish again by peaking too early... I've waited 5 days, i can wait another 5 🙁

Did the firmware update for the Kickr Snap last night, damn the power resistance was good, noticable change from before the update, Box Hill nearly killed me, stayed pedaling all the way.

Can't have got the tension set right as the steeper bit after Box Hill had the trainer tyre slipping a bit. Coming out of the underground at the end was really slow, as soon as the gradient hit 15% I could barely move without the tyre slipping.

Just have to tighten it a bit more next time.

Pleased with Zwift still, if I include Zwift miles I'm already way ahead to hit my distance target for this year.

It needs 100psi and then two full rotations of the knob after it touches the tyre Allan.
You can also hold the flywheel with one hand and try and slip the tyre with the other. You shouldn't be able to make it slip with your hands.

Did the firmware update for the Kickr Snap last night, damn the power resistance was good

I read that they'd done an update. Looks like they've worked the power reporting to take into account the effort required to accelerate the wheel, not just taking it from wheel speed alone, so should be more realistic. Good stuff for Snap owners.

weeksy - Member

Slowly i'm getting there.. I'm not ready yet, ut i'd say after 5 days the leg is about 75% now.. It's only at full extension i get any pain, walking is fairly decent. I'm going to strengthen my resolve to wait and stick it out though. There's no point getting it back to 90% and then making it all rubbish again by peaking too early... I've waited 5 days, i can wait another 5

Good luck getting back on track - from reading between the lines on here you may be due an enforced rest - be really interesting to see if it has a positive effect on your performance in the long run. Thanks for the encouragement - I've been champing at the bit on occasions with training plan wattages and following people - need to give the racing a go just to give myself an alternative method of beasting my legs.

Weeksy, you sure you have the saddle height set correctly?

nathb - Member

Weeksy, you sure you have the saddle height set correctly?

Open to debate of course but i think so.. But it's a very fine art when it comes to road bikes. I think/believe it was all from me moving my seat forwards, rather than the saddle height.. I could easily be wrong with that of course, but that's my thoughts/feelings. Of course, not forgetting the overtraining and the higher watts than i thought on the 'easy' days. On the days i was thinking i was training at 180w i was up over 230 maybe even 250 if we accept the watts of the power meters i've had on.

There's no world in where i live currently i can spend £200 on a bike fitting, so i've got the settings where i think/read/youtube them to be.

So where do the BRS TT races actually time from? Looking at the results, the time seems to be from the start gate where-as on screen it showed 'warm-up' all the way until the mall when it started lap 1/2.

I think the time starts from the gate and the whole 'warm up' is just because you are not yet on the London Classique lap.

Yeah the warm up lap is part of the race, hence why everyone bolts it.

ah well, lesson learnt.

lol, did you wonder why everyone else was screaming past while you were warming up? 🙂

No one riding?

you mean the EVR weeksy ?

I'm too late so just going for a ride. I assume you're NOT riding ?

I just meant generally mate. I'm still a no. Wed maybe.

No one riding?

Rest day for me. 10km run tomorrow then probably the club run on Sunday, so no Zwift until Monday for me.

looked like a nice evening in London - I got quite disoriented. Luckily it then started to piss down and all was well in zwiftworld again 🙂

@weeksy, not sure if it has been mentioned, but 3 things to check for with calf injury.

1) Try to avoid heel dropping too far when forced to put the power down on a climb
2) Make sure you aren't 'ankling' excessively
3) Make sure cleat is set front/back such that widest part of the foot is over the pedal axle (some interwebbing will even find advocates for moving cleats as far back as the midsole.

fifeandy - Member

@weeksy, not sure if it has been mentioned, but 3 things to check for with calf injury.

1) Try to avoid heel dropping too far when forced to put the power down on a climb
2) Make sure you aren't 'ankling' excessively
3) Make sure cleat is set front/back such that widest part of the foot is over the pedal axle (some interwebbing will even find advocates for moving cleats as far back as the midsole.

Understood.

I'm planning on my first ride in a week tomorrow.... I'm thinking, nice and gentle,maybe 170-180w for a 45 mins ride... should be enough to not really kill me, but give me some calories and a gentle re-introduction.

Now you have the Kickr, I wouldn't worry so much about targeting watts. Use perceived effort and HR too- with variable resistance on- you should find sticking to one number a bit trickier.....