Zwift meetups and social rides ?

don’t use one mate… Not sure anyone will be opening one.

Sorted the bike. It was the stationary, thing…
Not changed my name yet.

Got my bumblebee top sorted.

No updates for me. I think they went on last night…

If anyone is using Spotify, there’s a good playlist called Shuffle Syndrome

So did the original meetup get deleted or have I pressed the wrong button?

Will be a 90s rave mix for me!

Just digesting my homemade soup and donning the bumblebee top

Sorry if I’m repeating anything but this morning our club created a rubber banded meet-up, allowing people to ride socially or do intervals yet remain within a social group.  We used our own Zoom voice channel to chat through the ride and I have to say it was pretty awesome as an isolated club ride.  We even used Zoom to chat – after showers – over coffee as per a normal club ride!

They will be organising three regular weekly rides now, and there even talk of creating a bigger meet-up and inviting other London clubs.  Nice one Zwift!

All set up here, just need to sort the virtual bike and kit

Does it come up with a prompt to going meet up?

Nothing here at the moment.

Oh, zwift got my name wrong, it’s showing as P. D (STW) LOL

Prodigy on!

Still no prompt here?

Does it auto move you over at last minute or something?

I think it’s 5 minutes

Ah, cheers!

There’s several people on the London loop.
Dunno if they’re doing the group ride but will they jump to Watopia or should they reload the game….?

This is fun! Halfway in.. Lovely day in the garden too!

DrP

I stopped working 😂

That was great,cheers 😎
It’s snowing here now lol

Got in the house and there was a sandwich on the side! Perfect!

Dunno if they’re doing the group ride but will they jump to Watopia or should they reload the game….?

I just got a join ride button and ported across from London

Bloody enjoyed that.

Forgot how much I enjoy the bike (& Zwift)

So unfit now though but really tried to give my legs and lungs a workout! Nowhere near my old power but actually much better than expected 🙂

Great fun that! I’ll be up for more.

Pootled round with S Kelly, perhaps it was Sean? Can’t seem to make my keyboard work when riding so limitted to thumbs up. We got caught in no mans land. Started steady with the group and let a few go. Then seemed to lose the group up the first climb and they never came back. Tried waiting etc but to no avail so just cracked on and cruised round after that. Caught another at the end.

Well that was more fun than riding inside on a static bike should be 😉 Made a change from doing workouts. Last 15 mins was a bit chewy.  Four of us, then 2, whoever j.kirk is, he kicked my butt up the hill to the Volcano. I did catch him with about 5 seconds to go, but I think he’d backed off my that time!

Pootled round with S Kelly, perhaps it was Sean?

Did he say anything about making the calculation with a number of kilometres to go ? That’s how you tell 😉

I think he did, probably how we caught the chap ahead on the line 🙂

Good ride. Here is a pic from halfway through. We all look the same. Any chance of getting a STW kit made up?

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It was me you caught (MagnetoDog) however I’m pretty sure you didn’t catch me but lapped me 🙁

You seemed to be going well all the same 🙂

Thanks Lads that was a good hour, shame we split up but suspect there’s some flyers who just didn’t fancy pulling over and waiting for the back group to catch up.

Had a bit of duel with Alex and couple of others up the climb after the rickety bridge. Eventually making a group of 4. One of the lads insulted a roadie as we flew by their group. Ended in a scrap with myself and Alex, I was looking for some kind of finishing line as he finally blew by me.BTW after a ride for the last few days I was struggling and couldnt have kept that up, you would have definitely caught me before the 8nside of the volcano.

Try to catch a ride again. It’s not like I’ve much else to do at the mo (mustn’t let the Mrs see that or there will be a long list of Jobs formed in the blink of an eye).

Is there a way to have the ‘right hand’ nearby Zwifters panel just show who you are riding with? The screen capture above seemes to show the group. The problem I had was that for most of the hour I could not see where anybody else was.

That was me @djflexure that was a great ride. Like you said we were completely isolated so it was stop it crack on. Turned into a great workout.

@kirky72 – I thought you were gone! I don’t race (inside or outside) so I was totally caught out when you sprinted away. I really didn’t expect to catch you, I was just seeing how hard I could go for the last 90 seconds. As I hit my max HR I’d say I was pretty much maxed out!

It was fun in that group of 4, then 2. Maybe I’ll have to try virtual racing after all.

I don’t think we lapped you magneto, you were going too well.

Yes enjoyed that @eskay
Thanks for a great workout!

Is there a way to have the ‘right hand’ nearby Zwifters panel just show who you are riding with? The screen capture above seemes to show the group. The problem I had was that for most of the hour I could not see where anybody else was

Mine looked just like robbo’s – all green, only our group. Did you accidentally hit “leave meetup” or whatever the button was called ?

No I was still in green and I’m on that readout. I just had myself and eskay, the rest of the panel was filled by riders whi were not from our group.

It’s hard to tell who is who with the different names (.craigpin by the way).

I noticed I was ahead of the main group as we entered the jungle section so waited by windmills. Once together it was fun and then went off at the end. Couldn’t catch Weeksy so if that’s what C category is like, I’m doomed 🙂

I was tootling round London pressed button to meet up and zwift crashed. Opened it on phone and everyone was quite a bit ahead could see abig yellow glow so chased that down, blew past them then I went up the big hill, lost a few, free wheeled a bit to wait for the others and my turbo must have switched off! Lost connection and wouldnt reconnect. Re started Zwift back on laptop and then and then jumped in behind Weeksey and gave him a tow for 10mins or so, we didnt catch anyone up though.

Couldn’t catch Weeksy so if that’s what C category is like, I’m doomed

Weeksy’s a big-hitter in C though. Never forget that. It’s him and Mrwhatsisname, apex predators 😀