Zwift meetups and social rides ?

got to say I prefer it. Less hectic, less gamey without tron bikes etc. Nice little scrolling line showing w/kg changes and it doesnt take 240 000mins to load up on my laptop!

I think you also forgot its free (isn’t it?)

The only real issue I had with RGT was the lack of routes. There’s a few real climbs but not much in the way of rolling terrain. I think the zwift, watopia approach is better where you can set off on a loop and navigate on the fly if you fancy a climb etc.

Only 17 signed up for tomorrow which considering none of us are going anywhere at the weekend does slightly surprise me. But will be a decent ride and distance i think.

weeksy
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Only 17 signed up for tomorrow which considering none of us are going anywhere at the weekend does slightly surprise me. But will be a decent ride and distance i think.

Would need to clear it with the missus, but should be OK for this.

But – I didn’t get an invite…. :o(

Weeksy – I am riding with my cycling club tomorrow morning instead.

Having said that….if I drink too much red wine tonight and miss the start I’ll join the STW ride!!

I’m also waiting to see how I feel tomorrow, might go for an outside ride instead. Although a Zwift in the morning and an outdoor one in the afternoon might work.

Don’t tempt me, i’m just back from being out on the G-160 and another G-160 ride is exceptionally tempting 🙂

What’s the plan for the 90 minutes in terms of wattage etc?

I’m thinking the usual format, 175w for 30, then 200 or so for next 30, 225-250 for 60-75 mins, then unleash.

All depends how a rider hides and drafts of course.

I will try! FTP is 253 so first hour will be ok and then see what happens in the last 30

Don’t forget, you can lower that figure if sitting in the group, if there’s a decent group that forms of course

Going to give zwift a go next week I think.

I did the stelvio on RGT this morning, trying to keep up with a couple of guys off the Facebook group and it was the hardest thing I’ve done on my bike in years

Too me about 1hr20 for the climb, on 100% slope. My knees are still feeling it now nearly 12 hours later.

weeksy
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Only 17 signed up for tomorrow which considering none of us are going anywhere at the weekend does slightly surprise me. But will be a decent ride and distance i think.

Out door ride for me tomoz; my Boris recommended one-a-day.

As for meetups next week; I am on 8-8 hours Mon/Wed/Fri until this corvid situation ends. So only Tuesday and Thursday evenings available for Zwift.

I’ll be along.

weeksy

I’m thinking the usual format, 175w for 30, then 200 or so for next 30, 225-250 for 60-75 mins, then unleash.

I’m game for that, but not sure how I’ll cope. I will have to stay in the group because I did a hard hour (just under) yesterday and only averaged 184w, I think.

Just signed up for this, cheers

… have just come in from my 1st run in probably 5 years so be nice in the morning 😟

Yeah, don’t think I’ll be able to managed that power, will give it a go but expect to drop off fairly quickly. Let’s see

Cheers for invite weeksy but can’t make tomorrow morning im afraid.

Have a good ride all, though!

Sadly too early for me. But I’ll be in for the evening rides again if they’re on going!

Cheers gents… If the pace is too hit, please hit M and type a message and we’ll ease off a bit. Speak up and we’ll help you out both with a tow back in and also with the overall pace.

It ain’t a race, it ain’t a training event, it’s a bunch of zwift mates riding together 🙂

Morning- can I help make up the numbers ? I only started zwifting on Wednesday and legs still hurt so happy to be dropped! I have found Steve Weeks STW but can’t find any pending ride ?

Added. Enjoy.

thanks Weeksy

Cheers for the invite Steve.
I like to think my stamina is pretty good but that goes out the window when I’m at threshold and some of you guys aren’t even in tempo. So I know it ain’t a race but I’ll no doubt end up at the back at some point and will be happy to bail when the time is right.
For any other slower riders my ftp is only about 210.

Trust mate mate, there’s plenty of faster guys in STW than me, so any pain you have, I’ll be having a bit later. It’s not about who’s the best, the fastest, strongest. It’s about meeting up and talking rubbish with familiar names about.

Until the final 15 mins anyways.

If just eaten a massive bacon and egg sandwich, so don’t make me vomit 🙂

See you soon…

Hey chaps…
Prob not going to be able to make this one…
Kids are fighting like cat and dog, so can’t really sit on a turbo for 90 min whilst they kill each other!
GOing to go for a scoot on the seafront with them.. Have fun, I’ll prob be on Zwift for a ride later today/eve…

DrP

There is an update available so log in early.

30,000 riding – log on early

Going to leave it at the break. Going to have 5 mins and go on the treadmill. Great ride though. I’m impressed at the low HRs of most.

Thanks for the reality check this morning- I am way off the pace!

Can you recommend a zwift training programme that can work miracles- even my avatar looked fat!

Yeah, my HR was about 30 above everyone elses. As expected I struggled with that, combination of not being fit enough, still figuring out zwift and the link to the tv stopping working so having to try and watch everything on a phone screen without my glasses! Still, had fun, found Scaredy for the last 10 minutes or so and feel like I’ve earned my hot cross bun

I was going ok until my wifi dropped, it came back and I worked back into the group and it dropped again and I thought I can’t do that again…

Quit and did a workout instead…

Cheers all – all broke up a bit when weeksy went for a dump had a forced update. We’ve all been there mate, no shame in that. Did anyone actually manage to stay in a group ?
(cheers swdan !)

Bugger. For some reason I thought it was midday! Got myself set up, opened up ZwiftApp before the penny dropped. Next time I’ll stick it in the bloody diary… hope you all had a good one.

Good ride set some 30 second pbs on the sprint section. Second part was a bit tougher but enjoyed it. Cheers all. Looking forward to the next one.

We did some volcano racing!!

Race 1 Nath won with 5min 30.
Race 2 I won with a 5min 50 lol.

Race 1 was bonkers with Nath at 4.5 all the way and me killing myself to pull him back and screaming for help

Sorry about the update lads. Stupid windows. It was a policy enforced one so I can’t delay it.

Not sure what happened but I lost the group completely after about 40 mins – everyone just disappeared!

I didn’t get moved over to the volcano – “join” button pooped up so it pressed it and .. nothing

me and swdan rode round at about 400-450W for a while, then had to stop – kept spilling my cup of tea

I couldn’t join the volcano ride for some reason. Decided to do tomorrow’s training ride today instead then got dropped in with the group anyway – needless to say I didn’t last long with my mighty 70w warm-up pace!