Zwift meetups and social rides ?

Just sent out the invite to the Sunday “Big Foot Hills” ride. 8 am start, should be 2 hours maximum, with only small hills and lots of flat for those that love it!

If I’ve missed you off the invite list and you want to join, let me know and I’ll add you.

Anyone up for an earlier commute tomorrow? Thinking 6.30 for half an hour ish?

Tempted but need to rest ready for the ttt in the evening. Enjoy!

I did big foot hills last weekend, decent course with reasonable climbs such as volcano climb, don’t think I can bear it again and planning a big ride out whilst I still can for Saturday or Sunday so will give it a miss.

can I ask, is their a STW strava group, a general one or set up by the zwifters?

I don’t have too many people in my following list to compare against for zwift segments.

https://www.strava.com/clubs/STWzwift

There is a club but it isn’t particularly active.

oopnorth

Just sent out the invite to the Sunday “Big Foot Hills” ride. 8 am start, should be 2 hours maximum, with only small hills and lots of flat for those that love it!

I’m gonna try to make this, unless it’s get out into the real world weather…. 🙂

I can’t make this Sunday, tomorrow I am doing a route on my other App, Can do a Friday commute and can also do a Saturday morning ride too if anyone about.

I’m taking a morning off tomorrow with me doing the TTT in the evening.

Friday I’ll see how the legs are and possibly do a Academy workout.

Saturday…not sure yet…either lie in or a ride, it will be a last minute decision.

Still all ok for tomorrow morning at 8

I am good for the morning. Tried doing a Zwift academy group ride at 2pm today. It crashed every time I joined the pen so think it must have been to busy. Gave up in the end and didn’t do a ride today!

Still on for tomorrow chaps…see you at 8am.
It may be a slow one as I’m already on the red wine 🤣🤣

Cheers see you in the morning I also lost connection on a  ZA this morning blamed my equipment as I also lost signal on my ride at 7.00.

I was on the 8am workout #3…jeez it was hard. Was proper gasping for air after the last session 4x sets of 2 minutes at 320w and 2 minutes at 150w…3rd and 4th set were just a case of making it to the end.

Really liking the ZA workouts.

I started the 8.00 as well just got to the 2x 2mins@ and lost signal I was feeling ok at that point.

I’ll be there…
Been smashing cocktails on the town after a boozy lunch…
Will see how far I survive… bleugh….!

DrP

Slim chance I may be able to make tomorrow but haven’t had an invite @oopnorth can you invite Simon Kelly please?

Hi Simon. Quite a few Simon Kelly’s from the UK on zwift.
Can you follow me and I’ll send you an invite.

Craigpin Oopnorth (STW)

I’ll do it first thing in the morning so you can join.

Got it – thanks

Got you Simon, you should have an invite now.

Is late start/joining available on this morning’s ride?
I’ve just got out of bed and need to get my schizzle together…

DrP. .u can still join up to 30 mins

ok.. just updating zwift. I’m getting properly pissed off at Zwift and it’s bugs at the mo… ANT+ not working… connects..drops out..

Makes it all pointless..

DrP

(Trouble is..i start BACK at the start line don’t i..)

Honestly.. I’m losing it today…

Ant+ simply not connecting consistently…

DrP

Ant+ just gone now..
Windows issue…
Or zwift?

How do I tell?

DrP

I also had 3 dropouts during the ride DrP, really frustrating. Every time I was a minute back and had to chase down which killed my legs towards the end.

For future reference, I’d you join late it drops you next to the last man I believe…not the start

Thanks guys for that this morning. I had moments where I was going to sack it off but decided to keep plugging away.

Crikey! That was a slog!
There were several times I was gonna call it a day – especially with the random internet drop-outs although that did settle down after volcano climb.

I had no oomph today at all – I don’t think I’m a morning person and didn’t get out of bed until just after 7:30!
I did a short-ish explore of some local woods yesterday, but wasn’t going particularly hard so my legs shouldn’t have been particularly tired…

Well done for finishing Stumpy! It’s a long ride

it’s my ANT+ dongle i think…

So..my PM NEVER loses connection with my garmin head unit..

But ALL ANT+ devices (HR strap..PM… turbo) flick in and out of connection ALL THE TIME..

It’s become SO unreliable, i can’t be bothered any more….

WIsh I got a 4iii power meter as I could have used blue tooth with the laptop, and not worry about **** ANT+

DrP

Dr P, I have my any+ dongle on a usb extension lead and position it by the bottom bracket (on the floor)

I don’t know what your set-up is like DrP, but I ended up buying a 3m usb extension and using cable ties to fasten it to the leg of a shelf unit that sits right next to the turbo trainer.
The dongle stays permanently plugged in and I just have to plug the wire into the laptop when getting set-up.
It can be a real pain trying to diagnose the source of these problems….laptop/dongle/Zwift/Windows etc…

I had similar last month or so if you recall Doc, I spent £12 on one and it’s solved all issues, think it just got a bit waggly on the port etc

Hi guys. Another good one this morning although shame we kind of whittled down due to IT problems. The ANT dongle usb extension also works for me.

I have a USB extension cable too…it now sits right next to the trainer.

I think my issues were wifi drop outs…as soon as I connected again I was back…but miles behind 🙂

Cheers for the morning guys was a bit of a slog but it is one of my favourite routes

All of the tech failures are really bloody annoying.

The usb extension and hardwired ethernet has made my setup virtually trouble free

I have hardwired my network as well but might not be an option for all. If I am joining a meet-up I try and do the warm up in the same world to prevent it dropping out on switching worlds. Pretty stable apart from yesterday when I think there were too many people on the Zwift academy rides.

I enjoyed this morning and attacking the shorter hills. Hit 348w for 5 mins which is a new record but should have tried harder to hit 350 lol.

Hit pbs on the 4 shorter climbs by quite a margin it seems so a good mornings work. Annoying about the others getting dropouts though as it just took the momentum out of the ride. I like that route though.

Cheers Robbo for the tow up the volcano

Yeah I like the route too…got PB’s on both directions of the hilly KOM but I think they are just 30 day PB’s…not my actual best. But not bad when my legs were complaining on the reverse one.

I know I would have had more if it hadnt been for the dropouts, the volcano took a bit out of me trying to catch up.

The only thing missing is a sprint then it would be perfect, if we do a Sunday Hills next week don’t forget the clocks change.