Zwift meetups and social rides ?

With wheel on you have to set the tension as well in the manufacturers app don’t you? I had a tacx when I had a wheel on trainer. Glad I don’t have these issues anymore.

Does anyone fancy a team effort on this race next Saturday? Same time but not a crit. It’s a good course though and only a small amount of climbing.

https://www.zwift.com/events/view/1659979

Does anyone fancy a team effort on this race next Saturday?

dunno how much help I’ll be but it’ll be a good workout so I’m up for it!

I’ll play, but 230m of up won’t help me at all.

I will be doing the 12:30 zhr crit tomorrow though in C.

I’d enjoy a team effort – did one with Weeksy and Crust once and that was good fun
but can’t on Saturday; working 🙁

(how do you know what route that race is on? I can’t see that at all)

The link takes me to the event in my app which says WatopiaFigure of 8. Good thing is team vegan so you can ride as a team in their description so you might have some other teams to race against as well. Bs should be able help a bit more as well as no cones.

(how do you know what route that race is on? I can’t see that at all)

on mobile it opens the link in Companion where it’s obvious as there’s a pic… not on the Web version tho…

in an attempt to be less pathetically needy, I tried to answer my own question and found something you all probably knew about years ago:
https://zwifthacks.com/app/events/

i’m going to be aiming for 3w/kg..circa 210 watts…
keeping HR <140 so as not to burn out..

Ok, might join you for 2 reps then!

“Might”

Ill certainly set up enough water and food for that anyway.

i’m going to be aiming for 3w/kg..circa 210 watts…

Lol…for me that’s more like 260 to 270w…but will do my best to stay with you.

Does it matter which category?? For Saturday I may join see how legs are.

Disaster this morning, I’d downloaded workout, forgot to join meet up but did so this morning in plenty time, zwift didn’t give me option to join though. Started work out by myself by but was lacking motivation by this stage and legs just refused. Done more Kms than usual for last 6 weeks and add in races and try for last 2-3 weeks, need a rest and easy week. No Tuesday race this week and will see about TTT later in week.

I thought you were online @karnali so was surprised not to see you. Late join is on for these meet-ups so if you are running behind (or Zwift throws a curveball) you should still be able to join.

Hope you have a good ‘recovery’ week!

Well to finish off that little bit of weirdness…. it was simply just some weirdness.

Yesterday i used Ant+ and did pretty much exactly the power, pace, HR that i’d expect.

Today i used Bluetooth on the same Android device as i got the cone on and got the exact same power, pace, HR as i’d usually expect. Neither of them were anywhere near 320w

Just realised I made an error – England are playing on Saturday afternoon at 4.45 so I wont be riding then (Rugyby not Football!)

Does anyone fancy joining a race around 1-2pm?

I know Zilog and Weeksy were interested in the original suggestion but not sure about anyone else. Doesn’t look like there is much on at that time though (well group rides and workouts).

@robbo1234biking – I’m up for a Saturday race, happy to fit in with whatever works

https://www.zwift.com/events/view/1659921

There is this event at 12:45. I have never raced this route before. It is only half the hilly route basically.

No sandbagging restrictions either!

That looks good. The Two Bridges Loop looks like you do half the hilly KOM before bypassing. Same length for Bs and Cs so hopefully a mass start? It also means us slow B’s can contribute without fear of being DQ’d I guess.

Two Bridges is a great punchy race route robbo. And team support could be a real help – making sure you stay with the main group (the esses –> reverse KOM repeatedly can catch you napping) and by being there as a wheel to follow when it all breaks up into a mad scramble up and after the final climb.

I don’t think I can make 12:45.

EDIT @slowpuncheur B’s start a minute before C’s in this event
More EDIT and more importantly, categories can’t see each other…

I think so, but based upon your rides last night in C, i won’t be staying long 😀

If you Bs want to ride in the B race then go for it.

Looks like a fun route though.

I am being exceedingly antisocial with my Virtual riding – just the way my schedule is at the moment.
Have been trying to do TdZ though.

Stage 7 (group B) this morning, I joined 2 min before the start, with no warmup and on a MTB. This made it rather hard to get to the front, however when on the mud MTB definitely seemed to help me keep with a small group near the front.

I finished 5th which is my best TdZ result yet (although not actually a race, not cat A etc). However, this brings me to my motivation for this post to share that MTB seems to be a good tactical choice for stage 7. I was surprised that most other riders seemed to be on Road (or possibly Gravel) bikes.

Now suffering doing the ride with no warmup, IMS which will no doubt be followed up by increasing levels of OMS and DOMS.

Anyone fancy the TDZ stage 7 (group A) at 1900 today?
I’ll be doing it as a gentle spin…last zwift ride before Sunday for me i reckon…

Gonna play about with live stream settings again (am i taking this too far!!)

Anyone??

DrP

Not sure if I can make Saturday, if I can I will be there.

Did my stage 7 this morning. Definitely the MTB is the best way to go in the jungle, I was flying past roadies and went from the back of the race to finish in 50th. I don’t get why some just want to do it on a road bike or Tron…unless they are using it as an intensive training session. some tried to keep up with me but were doing 4.2w/kg compared to my 2.2w/kg on the MTB.
In the jungle MTB will always be king…unless you like riding through treacle!

https://www.zwift.com/events/view/1659921

There is this event at 12:45.

yeah I would be up for that as a C. Is this part of the WTRL race series or just a standalone?

Anyone fancy the TDZ stage 7 (group A) at 1900 today?

probably give this a go at 6 or 7. I’ve found it can be pretty hard to actually join up with anyone on these rides as there is such a huge volume of other riders!

Did my stage 7 this morning. Definitely the MTB is the best way to go in the jungle, I was flying past roadies and went from the back of the race to finish in 50th.

@oopnorth did you swap or just MTB the whole time?

@zilog6128 I started in the pens on the MTB, used it all the way round, the roadies got a good 2 km down to the start of the gravel, but then went backwards very fast. Just start on the MTB, swapping won’t save you anything for that very short road section.

@oopnorth cool, yeah, I’ll just do MTB. Swapped before for the STW race & it was fine, but I was on iPad then & am now on Apple TV… almost 100% guaranteed to go wrong or lose a boat load of time as the controller is so awkward!

Think I’ll go for the 1800 race with Brian… May see you?
Just means I can chill on the sofa sooner!

DrP

I’ll be on the TdZ A at 18.00

Will look forward to it. I’ll probably jump on discord if anyone fancies saying hello/listening to me grunt/say what ever the exact opposite of “shut up legs is”

I’m going to do the 1800

Have a good one guys!

Nice… right…
I’ve got discord on the phone…
Headphones connected to the pc though…

How do I see text on the phone?

DrP

Assuming you’re in the app and on the right channel it should just be there

K…

DrP

Did you have a drop out or something Phil?

Cheers for the ride folks. That was good/awful.

@dangeourbrain

Did you have a drop out or something Phil?

No – I was waiting for you two, but you just blasted past me!!!

Learnt a new trick tonight – if you join the meetup as soon the button comes up with 30 mins to go you get a place at the front of the pen. You can then end the ride and leave Zwift. Restart zwift and then do your warm up in the normal world or by using a a workout in erg mode.

When you go back into the normal zwift world for your warm you will get the Join Meetup icon on the left still with the countdown. Do your warm up and then join the meetup again with a couple of mins to go and you will go back to the original place when you joined when the meetup from the previous session at the front of the pen. Did it tonight on the TdZ event with 100s of riders and went back in right at the front and led on the road for about 10 seconds (out of 1100 riders total!)

Eek.. sorry Phil… I noticed you were there as we were pacing past!

So my video has no sound! Sorted that now!
But… it’s funny to watch the MTB trounce all the road bikes…I casually start at 750th… stay there until the gravel, then chuckle to myself as I make up about 600 places!

DrP

No – I was waiting for you two, but you just blasted past me!!!

@Phil56 oops sorry about that. I didn’t actually see you until I was about level on the road then you vanished off the list behind.
With so many riders it’s really hard to figure out who anyone is. On the run in on the final lap Ian was mostly the man in front on my list but actually not visible on the road. Loads of people we were lapping (no idea how that happened) visible but not on the list. It’s actually a bit annoying!
Even when I was riding in your group on the first lap I couldn’t actually see you half the time, the bunch was a bit too big to keep you on the list then riders and names vanished at random.
I get why they reduced the rendering and the like but it would have made sense to prioritise people on your follow/favourites list over complete randoms when you’re all within a few m of each other.

Was a good ride though, a touch under 10min longer than race 1 but a full lap extra. I didn’t blow up*, good average power for a tiny bit over an hour and felt like of worked for it but not buried myself. Feel like I’m actually getting some fitness back, now if I can just shift some Christmas flab.

*least ways not until afterwards.

Any plans for Saturday morning?

In the absence of any then does anybody fancy Surrey Hills, or is everybody saving themselves for support runs up the alpe on Sunday?