Zwift meetups and social rides ?

I hate it, more than i can put into words… at 90kg it’s a long slog up… But the rides can’t all be about me 🙂

At 85kg I don’t expect it to much better…

I’m in.

I’ll be at the back…

Link below says you have to be level 12, I’m only at 10 but group rides are fine 🙂

https://zwift.com/news/5753-climb-alpe-du-zwift

Can you add me please weeksy? I think I have bath cc at the end of my name at the moment. Cheers

Yeah, only level 5 so not been able to attempt it yet. As someone mid 80kgs will also be slow up this but that’s fine with me.

I think zwift have lowered the entry level to 6 rather than 12 to decrease rider density on the rest of the island.

I not make Friday so an invite available.
Have fun👍

Perfect, I’m trying to do the GCN Isolation Challenge , the idea is 2 training sessions, 1 race and one ride where you try to climb 500m….. each week.

Don’t thnk I can get on Fri so have said not going – not tried the Alpe yet, looks like a beast of a course.

Hi Weeksy
I haven’t received an invite yet but I would like to join you again – I’ve only ever done the Alpe once before.

Don’t think I will do that – that will take me about 2 hours! Cheers for the invite though

There is no way I am sad enough to spend two hours on a sunny Good Friday evening sitting on a turbo trainer pretending to climb Alpe d’Huez.

Oh yeah, that C-19 thing. Guess I’m in then.

How much time have you allocated the ride Weeksy? The climb by itself takes me 90 mins and I’ve only ever ridden it as part of the Road to Sky which usually takes two hours all in (including the descent). I might need to start at 17:30 or it will be the middle of the night by the time I’m finished.

Just added you weeksy, I hope their are some slow people to hang around with 😂

Last time I did tour of fire and ice it took me 2 hours 15 minutes….I hope to improve this time but I doubt it 🙁

I will do it if you can guarantee me getting the wheels at the top 😂

How much time have you allocated the ride Weeksy?

I’ve set it to ‘distance’ of the route, not timed.

Forgot it was good Friday, should i make it daytime instead or is evening best ?

I’m good for morning or evening, whatever suits everyone

Morning works for me, will get me out of doing something DIY related.

I can also do the evening, but it will cut into my Call Of Duty time 🙂

Dont mind

OK, i’ve set it to 11am. That way people get to spend the afternoon/evening having a beer/bbq/garden/wife time and it’s not eating into that.

My invite says 18:30?

refresh it ? if an issue i can delete and start again.

I’m still not seeing an invite – could this be because I changed my name on Zwift?

We can’t all be at the back 🙂

I’ve done the Alpe a couple of times now and it does my nut in because my turbo seems to freak out a bit at very low cadence.
Tacx Flux 2 – I like stand up in a higher gear and grind it out in a singlespeed stylee, it gives a break from sitting and spinning.
Annoyingly, my turbo takes this as not moving and power will drop out and read very low. I’ll be putting out say 300W but it reads 70W or so.
When the avatar momentarily stops and unclips while I’m pushing very hard, it puts murder into my heart directed at that stripy wee prick.

Any tips?

Weeksy, I’ve changed my Zwift user name will that effect the invitation status as I’ve not seen the invite for Friday?

Some may not have it yet because I have 70+ stw on my list, so each day I cull some and add some.
As long as you’re actively asking you’ll get in.

Try and keep it easy for me though lads, I’m not Mr magic the brain genius for remembering who’s who

I’ve not actually done the alpe du zwift yet so this is quite handy, unfortunately at 100kg+ I won’t be setting the world on fire!

I should, by then, have recovered from last night’s STW ride which seemed to take quite a bit out of me – woke in the night with really tired legs and feeling a bit “overcooked” which lasted most of the day.

Ok thanks, revised user name is rogman(STW)

I’ll not make the morning ride so I’ll remove myself so someone else can enjoy it 👍

I’ll not make the morning ride so I’ll remove myself so someone else can enjoy it 😉

I was Phil Alcock – now Phil Phil56 STW

Thanks

Alpe, bwahahahahaha, Alpe bwahahahaha

Oh dear

Did this as a race last Sunday, 2 hours trudging up, swapping positions with the same four blokes every few minutes, a proper slow motion slug-fest.

I’ll be plodding at 4-5mph all the way up, any company on the way most appreciated, so slowys lets plod up together, share the misery.

I’ll be with you at the back mate as don’t wanna kill myself before Sunday.

I’ve signed up. Sadistically quite looking forward to it.

I did it a few weeks ago and was having a nice tussle with someone; swapping positions every few mins. I finally got the better of him & starting putting a nice gap in – at about 25sec gap, he suddenly started speeding up & his w/kg went up to about 9w/kg – he came past me like a man possessed & then shortly afterwards it went back down to the same rate as when we had been battling.

I’m guessing he fudged his numbers to get back past me – dunno, but it was very odd.

Unfortunately, I’ll not be able to do this now in the morning. Thanks for organizing these Weeksy. I’ve been enjoying them.

I weigh 30kg 🙂

Don’t forget, this is not a swift affiliated event, if you want to drop 10, 20 kg whatever, no one cares. If it means you’re riding with mates, go for it

Hello weeksy, I’ve added a little to the NHS challenge for your lad.

Is he going to be on your account on Sunday or does he have his own? So I can give Ridons to right account basically.👍

Oh,I don’t think I can make Friday morning so I’ll remove myself if I have an invite waiting.