Luddite seeks Wahoo Heart Rate training advice

I have a Roam v2 on my bike and a Rival on my wrist – yes, I know the Rival is not great but it was a deal and I was curious. The Rival gives me my heart rate (or approximation of it). Occasionally it sends the heart rate to the Roam while I am riding – they don’t seem to like to stay synched for some reason.

So, in my head, I should be able to use the heart rate showing on my Roam to be a bit more structured to work on my fitness – most weekends I lead the easier club rides which are recorded as mainly Zone 1, so I want to plan in some solo rides to focus on staying in Zone 2 and then I can use hills to push on higher.

Am I right in my simplistic planning here?

How do I keep the Rival and the Roam synched – they seem to like to be checked and synched before each ride?

Or would I be better synching the Roam with ANOther heart rate monitor?

Anyone tried this and did it work or not work? (Accepting that real world riding is harder to hold a Zone than sitting in a pain cave)

Couple of things.

I’m not sure how you are riding in Zone 1. If I try and do Zone 2 on the road it’s tricky when I hit an incline.

I would forget about wrist based HR, in my experience it is useless. I would get a chest strap and link it to the Roam. I do this with a Bolt and it remains connected and never loses a beat.

and never loses a beat.

I like what you did there….

You cam stray briefly out of your HR zone, it’s no big deal.

Make it simpler, use the three zone model for endurance rides (ie. stay below LT1)?