Zwift meetups and social rides ?

At 94kg am I going to be the heaviest? Got to be up there. Im not sure if I’ll need to work in the morning. If so, I’ll drop out and let someone else in, but hope to make it. Do you do discord for group chat? Probably too many I guess.

Not even close to the heaviest mate!

Just catching up on this. I’d like to tag along on a group ride (shifts and training permitting) so I’ve sent you a follow request weeksy. 6.A.Whiteside (WKG Torture) Bit long winded I know but it’s all to do with the team I ride for during the TTT. The number represents what position I am in the team. As number five finishes his turn in front I know that it’s my turn to come through. The WKG part is the team I ride for.

Whiteside in.

Anyone else i’ve missed who wants the invite today ?

Cheers for organising weeksey but don’t think I can make Friday morning so I’ll decline the invite

Would it help if I put together a basic Google sheet or something Weeksy for folks to sign on? Save you having to check back here every ten minutes and remember who is in and out? Folk could also add other rides easy enough that way too?

Yes please weeksy, was mtbrog(STW) now rogman(STW) thanks

Would it help if I put together a basic Google sheet or something Weeksy for folks to sign on? Save you having to check back here every ten minutes and remember who is in and out?

might be easier (for everyone!) if peeps just changed their Zwift names to match STW logins?

Well there’s that too zilog, but I think the mental agility required in figuring out which random character string on here matches which on Zwift brings a bit of je ne sais quoi to the whole thing

It’s further back in the thread but just as a reminder or for those who missed it I’ve set up a quick RGT Cycling test event for 1830hrs this evening.

It’s a 5 lap crit of a 1km flat course and I’ve suggested doing the first 3 laps as a warm-up and figuring out the system. Apparently RGT is really easy to run private group rides and events on so I thought it’d be worth a look.

The only issue is if the minimum number of entrants isn’t met then the event gets cancelled automatically.

RGT premium is currently free and to sign up for an account and the event use this link.

Well hopefully it’ll be easier to actually join than the zwift race I somehow didn’t do this morning.

I even got up an hour and a half early and just ended up on a solo ride instead.

How did you try to join the race @dangeourbrain? I have found entering races through ZwiftPower sometimes doesn’t work.

I’d signed on through the companion app, couldn’t see any other instructions to be honest, I didn’t look hard mind.

might be easier (for everyone!) if peeps just changed their Zwift names to match STW logins?

I’ve changed mine to Craigpin Oop North[STW] to help Weeksy in the future 🙂

Ah blast. Yorkshire finishes today so I’ve signed up for another go at 17.30 if anyone fancies joining me.

See if I can get in this time.

It should just come up on screen to join the event when you login, or on the companion app. Usually it’s the blue box at the bottom left of the screen, above the orange menu box

Weird.

I’m going to blame user error [at least in public] and assume my time keeping just wasn’t good enough.

Serves me right but thanks to the inbuilt stalking features it has also given me chance to see that drafting makes a big difference – Weeksy just finished the same course at broadly the same power and similar weight but finished, as best I can tell, 1 minute 20 quicker

Ooh, just seen this is 11am.. cool…
Will take the turbo into work and take an early lunch break!
Hopefully having my phone as a hotspot will work…

DrP

Well I got in fine this to time seems I may just have been late

Sorry Ivan, not going to make rgt for the race sorry. I’m a bit broken.

No worries, there weren’t enough riders for it to go ahead anyway. It does seem pretty simple to set up a group ride/race though, including using any gpx file you fancy so long as the total route is under 100km.

I didn’t realise you couldn’t use virtual power though so it’s smart trainers or power meters only.

What’s the minimum number of riders you need?

RGT said I was registered but it didn’t appear in my planned rides, and then the ride started without me. Typing this halfway up Ventoux!

Five, we had 4 at one point but you and another dropped out so it wouldn’t have made a difference if you had made it.

I’m happy to have a bash at a ride if we can get 5, maybe something like ventoux or a “classic” flat course (not a full spring classic I don’t have all weekend!) might get a bit of interest?

I can do a first thing start any day over the weekend if it would fit?

What I might do is create a ride but leave it open for anyone to join – then if STWers want to join then great, if not then RGT will publicise it so at least it will go ahead.

Could maybe do the last 50km of Milan-San Remo or something?

How does Easter Monday sound? Burn off some of that chocolate?

Sounds good to me, I’ll create the ride and publish the invites etc shortly.

Hi Ivan. Definitely keen to try RGT. Will try to join.

Any Sat/Sun meet-ups?

Working today and Monday.

I’ve just declined this morning’s, so you can pass my spot into someone else. Should be up for the next one

Plenty of spaces when we get close to it, but thanks for the info

right..i’m on the ‘NHS wifi’ and managed to get into Wattopia/companion app…i’ve told reception not to bother me unless an emergency… and i’ve set up 2 big fans in the upstairs office!!!

DrP reporting for duty 😀

DrP

ready 🙂

As I will ever be but zwift hasn’t asked to join

Sorry I had to drop out guys. I was enjoying that. Wife has had a cough for 2.5 weeks now and it is triggering her asthma symptoms. She is doing better but as soon as I switched the fan on it started her coughing. She might have settled down but it isn’t worth making her uncomfortable for the sake of climbing a virtual mountain. I’m going to get up early I. The morning to do a ride when everyone else is in bed.

Thanks for organising another great ride weeksy, really enjoyed that, just the kick up the arse I needed after a heavy night.

That was cracking!!!
Had 2 fans on the go, and was cooler than I normally run despite that being a good effort!!

I could see sweary Dave coming up the hill behind me, but we finished with about a 5 second gap!! This is what’s great about Zwift..i’#d have jsut given up and pootled were it not for the competitive part!!

DrP

Not sure what happened but I lost all your messages from corner 6 onwards.

How did we all do? I got 74 minutes, 10 minutes faster than my PB! Well chuffed!

Oh…and I got the wheels haha! 🙂

I took a month as I waited for Figg then he bailed lol.

I got gloves FFS