Zwift, my journey, my weight and my fitness.

Anyone on the SZR 6pm apart from me and our resident super fast Zwifter ?

Not sure yet, but maybe. I'll be running in cat-D though!

Could be tempted! Would be as C.

Very much doubt its that.
Keen roadies have always spent hours and hours on the turbo, and havn't needed stuff like zwift for motivation.

... And your, ahem, weightier rider is prob putting out more actual watts, hence perhaps weight does matter

Just my guess. Having said that, I have an old kk road machine that is really well built and will probably last forever so, yes, some are probably very robust

Tonight I'm going to be Zwift'ing from around 7pm.

I'm going to be doing the CCW Volcano Circuit sweet spot training as I haven't posted a time yet: https://www.strava.com/segments/14032426

Anyone's welcome to join (be traveling at circa 4w/kg / 275w).

I decided not to race tonight - did a wander round the hilly circuit and the volcano for an hour. I'm convinced I did pass an STWer at some point though - only got a brief glimpse as I went through a big group (maybe a sub-2 ride?).

**** me. Totally knackered now, don't think I've ever pushed as hard as that (just did SZR race). Hit a new record of 193 BPM in the sprint at the end (never seen higher than 186 before) and was actually sick a little bit when I stopped. Good fun though! Didn't see any other STWers sadly, big field though almost 300 I think.

I've had to rest due to calf on left side giving me grief after long walk Monday. Was entered in that race but bailed on it sadly.

Kiss America's C @ 11am tomorrow though is plan.

I was on zwift earlier, doing intervals on the mountain up to the radio tower. Doing less racing now that outdoor races are possible, but I did the ZHR mountain race yesterday and got dropped as Monday's efforts could still be felt in my legs. Finished 14th.

I don't like the Volcano CCW as much as the clockwise circuit...

A friend and I were doing a mini train, the most we could muster was 5:17, didn't help that on our two attempts he turned around with a minute to go as when he stood up his sweat landed on his phone 😆

But I got the jersey:
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That's awesome! Well done!
I've had so many 2nds on Sprint segments but never had a Jersey yet 🙁

Nice one on the Jersey.

I'll be Zwifting tomorrow.
Should have been tonight really, but went to a friend's house to pick up a load of new bits for a new road bike build...Raleigh Militis frame built up with SRAM groupset, Cole Rollen wheels and random other bits...!
Can't wait to get building it, but finding the time is proving difficult....

Nice work nathb. I had the blue spotty jersey briefly tonight for the reverse epic but it was a rather soft target.

Thanks guys!

Don't think I could beat that without doing it in a race, or switching to the vortexs power haha. It's put me in 3rd on the [url= https://www.strava.com/segments/14032426 ]STW league[/url] though so it's all good 🙂

Might do the BRS TT tonight, it's been a while since I raced, anyone up for it?

Or using that aero PU you had 😀

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Or using that aero PU you had

That's not cricket though 😆

Anyone else in for the 11am KISS Americas ?

Not sure if anyone has seen it but just came across this video of a pro (Beppu) nailing a lap on Zwift! Using a smart trainer for power but bloomin impressive.

Well ive made a mistake!

Been off the trainer for a few weeks due to work and holidays.

Checked with the importer to see where the Neo is, they said deliveries are delayed until 3rd march. So I got fed up and went out and bought a halfords tacx flow special, phone up my lbs this morning to cancel the Neo order and they've received it yesterday afternoon!!

I now own 3 turbo trainers! My old dumb Cycle ops magnetic, a new tacx flow smart and a brand new tacx Neo!!

I might start a trainer comparison website!

Okay.

I need a new turbo trainer, £300 budget - tempted to just get another Vortex.

Amazon are collecting mine later..

Well that all went wrong ! signed in at 11.01 as i was working first.... No problem i think... race not off until 11.05 However it seems as A race had gone off, i wasn't able to join.

Found a few B racers and tried to stick with them, managed it pretty well. Near the end of my ride a couple of super fast Cs came past me, but they're on for a DQ i think as they were barely dropping below 3.8w/kg.

Real shame that though as i felt OK today...

I need a new turbo trainer, £300 budget - tempted to just get another Vortex.

For a smart controlled one, I don't think there's any other option with a 300 quid budget.

However it seems as A race had gone off, i wasn't able to join.

Btw how common are ANT+ drop outs when racing? Had a comedy incident on a group ride the other night, was faffing about with my phone when I looked up and noticed all my ANT+ stuff had dropped to zero and I was way off the back of the pack. Blew my zone 2 plan catching back up!

Long USB extension cable the answer?

or get a Mac 😆

or get a Mac

I have a mac 🙂 I've stopped using BLE though as I was getting some huge lag with turbo control that I don't get with ANT+.

I must admit not actually tried my Neo with my Mac... only been using it on iPad (which works very well!)

zilog6128 - Member

or get a Mac

I know it was tongue in cheek (erm, it was, wasn't it?), but this is a brilliant STW reply....

"I might need a £5 extension lead for my ANT+ dongle...."

"No, what you need is a £1500 computer...."

Excellent.

I'm Zwifting tonight, but can't decide what to do. Might do the mountain route assuming it's Watopia today....

Was a weird one, resistance was lagging the terrain by up to about a minute! I suspect it might be the big fan I have right next to my mac and between it and the Neo.

Actually quite a few of these apply to my turbo cave...
https://support.zwift.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000111566-My-Bluetooth-signal-is-Dropping?section=201145295

Anyway £5 extension lead ordered 🙂

I know it was tongue in cheek (erm, it was, wasn't it?), but this is a brilliant STW reply....

Btw, that video up there that monde posted, I watched about 10 seconds in there middle of it and someone on a weird looking recumbent trike thing popped out of a side street. Never seen that before.

mrblobby - Member

Btw, that video up there that monde posted, I watched about 10 seconds in there middle of it and someone on a weird looking recumbent trike thing popped out of a side street. Never seen that before.

It was a 'special' bike that you could get for a while. Not sure what the criteria was to get it. When I first started on Zwift mid-December (around then) you used to see them loads....
Must have been a temporary thing because they've disappeared now.

I saw quite a few people moaning to Zwift that it was too jokey etc. but I thought it was great fun....

I should have googled it...

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It was a challenge wasn't it? Ride 50 miles or something on it to enter a draw IIRC

Should be more fun stuff like that IMO!

mrblobby
I need a new turbo trainer, £300 budget - tempted to just get another Vortex.
For a smart controlled one, I don't think there's any other option with a 300 quid budget.

Yeah you're right!

Ordered a new one from Halfords for £260 🙂 (£300- £30 BC & £10 cashback). Pick it up tomorrow 🙂

It's put me in 3rd on the STW league though so it's all good

Damn, i seem to have dropped to 10th after a recent splurge of Volcano activity from STWers

nathb - Member

Ordered a new one from Halfords for £260 (£300- £30 BC & £10 cashback). Pick it up tomorrow

When you pick it up, check that the skewer & bolts are in the box. It might just be the Flow Smart that is affected, but I had two delivered with no skewer & bolts & there was someone on here yesterday I think (a page or two back) that had the same issue.

Oh I will.

One of the Vortex's I got off Amazon didn't have the mounting plate. The next one came with a mounting plate but someone had forgotten to weld the bracket onto the frame. 😆

Jon's short one tonight.

Those 1min efforts burn a bit near the end don't they? And the 3x FTP x 10s - full on sprint in top gear and I couldn't get to the number, about 40W short (targeting 645W)

Is that because I'm shit, cheap turbo can't handle the power, other reason?

Oddly fun though.

Managed to calibrate my Flow Smart tonight....it was way too tight.
Made a massive difference to how the resistance felt and my numbers.

Knocked 75 seconds off the Box Hill segment on Strava! I was busting a gut to do it, but even so....!

theotherjonv
Jon's short one tonight.

Those 1min efforts burn a bit near the end don't they? And the 3x FTP x 10s - full on sprint in top gear and I couldn't get to the number, about 40W short (targeting 645W)

Is that because I'm shit, cheap turbo can't handle the power, other reason?

Oddly fun though.

Brutal workout isn't it, there's not enough warmup time for me - I need 10 mins at least. I only got 5/11:

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Next time I try that it'll be with fresher legs!

I gave Jon's Short Mix a go this morning - managed to get 10/11 on it but it's quite tough getting the power up for the short sprints quickly enough. It wanted 10s at 715W even with my puny FTP, and I'd never actually been over 700W on the turbo before - was surprised it was capable of it in fact! Decent short workout anyway.

Racing in EVR Asia C today at 11.05am ... Bit of a longer one at 7 laps so need to try and pace myself a bit as i can't maintain anything over about 2.6 for that length at 7 laps of the classique.
Got 30 riders in C, which isn't bad for a Friday morning ride.

Good luck with that. I'm sure it'll be more enjoyable that the pipeline review and utilisation review meetings I'll be doing at the same time!

I got 10/11 too, didn't get a star for the first sprint, but being wise started dropping gears and spinning up in advance of the next two.

Even then, I was only getting to ca 600W vs a 645 target, but it let me off

Will try it again maybe at the weekend going for less gear and more spin (could only get to ca 130 in the 10s) and see what i get. But equally, not sure how much my turbo can take.

Can you access the workout report screen again once it's gone (just realised in time that you can freeze it this time) but didn't screen print it?

What was slightly annoying for me is that the star I missed wasn't on one of the sprints - it was actually for one of the cool-down bits. I had the same issue with the short sprints - I never actually hit and held the 715W target (707W was my max by the looks of it) but seemed to get close enough. I was having to get into my biggest gear and stand up in order to get some power on as fast as possible but it's tricky because there is also a little bit of a delay while the turbo's resistance ramps up.