Zwift, my journey, my weight and my fitness.

In the usual format of me being impulsive and not messing about, this is on its way already

🙂

An alternative would have been to spend the money on a PM and have Zwift control the BKool based on what the PM reports. That way you'd have a PM you could ride outdoors too. Just a thought.

I don't ride outdoors mate, well, I do but not on road bikes. Twice in a year last year. I don't care about MTB power figures at all. So a powertap hub or even a crank or pedal based system would have been pointless.
Mrs Weeksy also swifts so she'll also get accurate data too now

Not tempted by the Tacx Flux, direct drive for a little more money? (if they're even shipping yet... anyone got one?) Could be yet another warranty lottery though!!

Too late Zilog. Lol. It's on its way.

Just started on Zwift this weekend. No racing, just riding around getting used to features at the moment.

Best damn Turbo Training I've ever done.

Got the Wahoo Kickr Snap, anyone with British Cycling membership and ordering from CRC, don't forget the 10% discount.

Nice one Weeksy! I'm jealous that you'll have two working turbos! I'm so tempted to order a wahoo kickr instead of the poxy Neo...

Just getting ready to sign in for the 6.35 BRS race

Now that's what i call some proper impulse buying - nice work!

The Bkool is going back to its actual owner, I've only had it on loan for last few months.

I'm really excited to see what happens now as in theory I'm going to be quicker

Looks like double the watts! Where would that put you on Zwift?

Checking yesterday and most of today I don't think it will be that much.

My 20 min FTP according to zwift is 280. I'm going to take a guess if this is all correct I should be 330.

I'm all a bit in denial at this stage, but we can only go on both power meters we were using but yesterday on the Garmin pedals 300w on Garmin was about 240_250 on swift.
Today the gap on the video seemed larger but as times was about that too.

50-70w on 300 we're thinking.

We should be close in terms of w/kg now!!!

The first job for the new turbo is going to be an FTP test I reckon 🙂

My 20 min FTP according to zwift is 280.

Well if it was double that... 😉

Lol that ain't happening mate. I'm still a fat IT nerd and 45 years old.

If you'd asked me before if I thought my figures were correct I'd have said yes. So let's see hey.

Sounds like I'm going to have to try a bit harder up Box Hill to stay ahead of the new correct w/kg Weeksy 😉

pretty sure my power meter's accurate

... does anyone have any sticky scales ??

😆

On the subject of power gains I've just done my first zwift ride on a proper tacx turbo training tyre and its a really noticeable difference-worth considering for the cost. I'm still shaking off a cold so I'm not exactly tip top either..

Cheers for the ride on earlier Weeksy!

Anyone else entering the ZTR race tomorrow at 6:30pm? 1 lap of the mountain 8 course, should be fun....?

I might do the ZTR race tomorrow, I don't think I have done the Mountain 8 route before, although I have done the Pretzel a few times before. On the climb just remember to save a bit of energy for the final climb to the radio mast!

a bit later on for me - TT or KISS maybe
would bestarting as a "UPG" B and in for a kicking, I think

Enjoyed my first KISS(D) race today, couldn't hold on to the back of the lead group and ended up soloing the last lap, had just enough to hold off the chasers.

Legs were pretty tired after a run and a proper outdoors ride at the weekend, so pretty chuffed with the result, something to build on tomorrow. The racing is definitely more fun than the group rides, even ZP results worked for me tonight!

I didn't ride last night after all, part of it was my legs are still a bit achey/delicate. Part of it was thinking "I don't want to ride this turbo any more now, i want my new Wahoo".... I expect i may ride tonight though.

Also did KISS last night, typical, worst race for a couple of months and for once the result actually showed on ZP, first time this year. Spent a couple of hours in the pub prior to the race so probably not ideal prep.

My 20 min FTP according to zwift is 280. I'm going to take a guess if this is all correct I should be 330.

Rode a few laps of the volcano yesterday, thought it was pretty good, they missed a trick with the environment though. Could've made it a lot more dynamic with lava splashing around, bubbling pools, maybe a dragon or something! Having said that I didn't have my iPad so was using my phone, could've just missed all that stuff!

50W is a pretty massive bump, that's gotta be worth at least 10 places on the STW Box Hill leaderboard!

Lets not go crazy here... Wiggle have a delivery estimate of Friday.... so we'll put it on, fire it up, see what happens.... I'm not thinking any further than that.

Well, I've got another cold. Half the office are coughing, sneezing & spluttering so it was inevitable.
I sacked off riding last night to see if it got any worse overnight; it didn't so I might ride tonight instead, but try to take it easy...

I've almost got all the bits together for a second road bike, so once that is going I'll probably get a dedicated trainer tyre for the current road bike & keep it permanently on the turbo.

Spent an hour & a half the other night swapping my 'dumb' trainer over so my Wife could use her mountain bike on it (adaptors for different wheel sizes) & putting a suitable tyre on the bike - at her request, this is....
Asked her a few times if she wants me to show her how to use it & get on/off it without falling off. Nope. Now it's done & ready for her whenever she wants, she's shown zero interest. I even cleared an area of the garage to site it permanently so she hasn't got to drag her bike out & set it up.
My prediction of 3 uses before losing interest seems wildly optimistic now!! 😆

LOL Mrs Weeksy went through a peak... Twice in a week.... I don't think she's been on it in January though yet...

"i need to get back on Zwift..." she commented about a week ago....

Lets not go crazy here... Wiggle have a delivery estimate of Friday.... so we'll put it on, fire it up, see what happens.... I'm not thinking any further than that.

Seems like a lot of money to spend just to beat my time up Box Hill... 🙂

He'd spent a lot more than that if it meant he beat mine though 😀

He'd spent a lot more than that if it meant he beat mine though

Wonder how much liposuction costs...?

The simple facts were...

It's not actually my turbo... it's on perma-loan
It's clearly not right...
If it's not working properly, there will come a time it's not working at all.
If it means Crosshair is just a little bit scared... it's worth every penny.

Hell, if i CAN actually go out and put out 320w without killing myself, it will also mean i'll be racing at Hillingdon with CH and Nath 😉

It's been a long long time since you handed me my arse on a plate but it's not unheard of 😉
You deserve it if you are that fit- you've certainly been pushing the watts 😀
I'm not too worried about Hillingdon though- my bike handling is better than yours 😉

In other news, I'm sacking off structured intervals in favour of the dynamic workout of a KISS race around the Fig.8 if anyone is playing? I'm racing in the B's....

It's been a long long time since you handed me my arse on a plate but it's not unheard of

LOL one time mate, it just so happend that i was training hard and you'd had 4 months off the bike, after that, you got your stuff together and wiped the floor with me continuously.
I don't believe for a second i'll be beating you on Zwift/real world. But i'm certainly hopeful that i'll be closer than i have been in a while.

You could bring your bike over tonight and i could race the 18.30 Mountain 8 race with ZTR and be back home in time for your race 😀 That way we'll know if it's all just dreaming or not 🙂

Bring it on Weeksy 😆

Sign up for the 11th, what's the worst that can happen!?

Sign up for the 11th, what's the worst that can happen!?

I don't have a BC licence or anything at this stage Nath so i need to speak to Imperial to ask a few questions.

The worst, i can be off the back by turn 2 and lapped eleventy 7 times in your race distance being a road-block to everyone !

Has anyone ridden the new Volcano routes? Thoughts? From the screenshots i have seen looks like there will be a route up the Volcano at some point

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I don't have a BC licence or anything at this stage Nath so i need to speak to Imperial to ask a few questions.

The worst, i can be off the back by turn 2 and lapped eleventy 7 times in your race distance being a road-block to everyone !

I didn't have one for the first race (where I watched), but then went home and did the application. For the second raced I just printed off a temp one from the BC website. Once you've paid I think it's ready on the same day.

Food for thought - TBC on the racing thread 🙂

Has anyone ridden the new Volcano routes? Thoughts? From the screenshots i have seen looks like there will be a route up the Volcano at some point

I enjoyed it, it's a short course, fairly flat with a short climb on it so I reckon it will suit me for racing (very similar to London Classique). The last bit is up a 5% ish gradient so it will make sprint finishes a bit more interesting!

Bit of a missed opportunity re. the scenery though.

I've seen comments mentioning a currently blocked-off route up the actual volcano itself, so possible this is something they'll bring in later.

I just got two Strava KOMs on the Volcano route. No one can take that away from me................oh no, wait as minute. Loads of people just have.

are you talking about the flat route? The circuit is where it's at lol. There is a sweet volcano jersey available too! Was enjoying being on top of the STW leaderboard yesterday when there was only 1 other guy on it.

Apparently 5 laps of the Volcano route = 1,000 xp.

Apparently 5 laps of the Volcano route = 1,000 xp.

there's an achievement for it, so you can only do it once obviously. Dunno how many XP it equates to (I assume all the achievements are the same?) Theres also one for 10 and 20 laps.

Might join the ZSUN ride tonight, looks like they're doing the volcano route. Will be another close call with kids bedtime. Joined the last ride I went on with 30 second left on the countdown clock!

Dear Zwift,

We'd all happily trade the new volcano route for some sodding stability.

Thank you

Anyone thinking of riding Zwift tonight best make a plan B as it's on it's arse again

Injured here. The calves I thought were getting better are actually not. So I'm on my 2nd day of rest and leg is on ice tonight.

i wondered why only 24 people were on the ztr start line. 1/4 way up the volcano I found out!

Balls 🙁

thankfully chose to rest tonight or I'd be routeless!

Anyone thinking of riding Zwift tonight best make a plan B as it's on it's arse again

I've just tried logging in to watch & I was able to but it was not a smooth process. Everything seems laggy & generally ballsed up. Will give it a miss tonight then!

logged in but there's no roads to ride

Out of interest, do any of the other services (bkool etc) have a free trial period ?

It's all my fault, since I finished my free trial and signed up it's been shit.

Starting to wonder about other platforms TBH, I have pretty hectic work/life/kids club schedules and organising schedules around the various Zwift events is going to be a PITA if they then aren't available. Twice out of four times now......

completed my first trip up the mountain and up to the radio tower with a 5.30 ZHR up and down race!
WOw thats a long way up!
I'm hoping it has been succesful, as 2 minutes after I crossed the line zwift started going all funky, no riders names were being displayed and some really bag lag happening, I logged out and it took ages to close down. Hopefully all is not lost!

Either way for me, was still a good ride though. Had made some bike adjustments and feeling more comfortable.
Swapped out for a 30mm shorter stem and also fitted a ISM saddel after reading about them on another thread. Made a big difference to bike comfort for sure, I can really recommend the ISM saddle allready to anyone getting "numb bum" syndrome!

Me too jim - was glad to have completed the ZHR race, but some results would be nice after all that!

Ride was showing as (partial) on the zwift website, and I was able to manually upload the .fit file to strava so hopefully results will turn up eventually on zwiftpower.

From a purely selfish POV it makes me very nervous that Zwift just won't be able to scale to meet it's growth in popularity.

WEEKSY I want my £8 back. You sold me into this Zwift thing and its rubbish. Never works. Useless.

Its really messed with my training plan and my HR data is all wrong now. Probably I'll come 145th in that sportive instead of 140th as a direct result of this evenings missed training. I'm going to have to do some extra mindfulness to get over this disappointment.

Send me your Pp over.

How do you important a fit file to strava please?

top right of your strava page is a small + sign
tell it to upload a file, then select "from file" then choose the .fit file from documents/zwift/activities

@weeksy: Stages versus Tacx

I got a New Jersey this evening:
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Wonder how long this will last for:
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Sorted, thanks

Well done Nath!
I had what felt like my first proper race in ages. The turbo, the bike, the pm, the road feel and the intensity all felt super smooth too!
I think it was a great crit-sim.

Got beat in the sprint by my team mate though 🙁

Bit different to my video Nath!

That hurt
Just finished KISS race, as usual I got stuck in no mans land between groups but at least this time I had one other rider with me, although he played the game better a mugged me on the last climb after taking the benefit of me bridging a 20s gap.
FTP is back was 240 again so I reckon the 270 a few weeks back was a Zpower blip, now I'm on a smart trainer.
Good work on the volcano nathb! The section itself is a bit disappointing and shows up the poor graphic quality (I'm sure the original Halo was better 15 years ago).

Nice race @CH

Just a bit @weeksy! I think the differences are the Tacx smoothing the numbers more than the Stages? Or my lumpy pedalling...

Really had to drag myself onto Zwift this evening, I'm not even commuting this week as I'm waiting for the correct size bearings for my rear wheel..

Did a group ride today but was a complete shambles due to the server issues, ride leader was 5mins behind the group as wouldnt let them in, so all just fell to pieces

I just did 2 hrs ish. x5 volcano and up the mountain etc- no stability issues at all- I must be lucky! On iOS.

Yeah, i had about an hour and a half on there. No issues. Login seemed to be broken around 8ish, but it let me in shortly after. I think theyre doing pretty well, not much software can handle you fully disconnecting and reconnecting mid session, its pretty tidy.

I got on later too - bimble round the volcano 'til I got some big points bonus and then pretty much gave up (was the bonus for "x" laps or something? Can't have been for massive pace, unless it was for setting a new best effort by 10% or something)

Zwiftpower.com is now sorted and I was 4th in last night's kiss race, Missed out on 3rd place by 3s, I need a power meter upgrade like weeksy 😀

Come and borrow it mate

Depressed. Been carrying this injury for a little while, couple of days off here, couple of easier days there and i think i've got it beat... but then find i'm not quite there.

Yesterday i must have done something even while sitting at my desk.... but it's rubbish now.... Had it on ice last night, then later in the bath.... this morning.... Rubbish.

I'm thinking it's a good week off.... if not more.

GRRRRR

I'd like to do the SZR race tonight but fully expect Zwift to fall over again. I've reactivated my trainerroad subscription

That's rubbish @weeksy - rest up properly!

I'm looking forward to some crit racing on the volcano - should be realistic?

Without wanting to derail the thread... How do i realistically know how long ? I've got a tubigrip type thing on it now so it's resting... I'm staying off it mostly as i'm an IT nerd so it's not like i do manual labour... but it's proper painful when i move/stand. Do i start easing back into it once it feels 'almost' right, or wait until i don't get any twinges of pain at all from it... I don't know really.

Bah, logged in to go exploring the volcano and ended up in Richmond 🙁

I believe there's some startup code you can use to ride a different area MG - I guess lots of people might be doing it today

Yeah, I'm aware of that though i haven't tried it yet, but as far as I can remember, Richmond hasn't been used for months and I thought they (Zwift) would be promoting the new loops...ho hum

yeah - I got an email from them at nine last night, promoting the new area

Bloody typical!
Got a cold so didn't ride on Monday; waiting to see if it got any worse.
It was no worse yesterday, so rushed home, waited 'til I'd put my daughter to bed and then a whirlwind of getting changed & sorting my stuff out....

Into the garage - Wi-Fi extender not connecting to the internet for some reason......faff around trying to work out what's going on, get it working, attempt to log into Zwift......nope....it's not working....

GAH! Screw this, I'll go and watch some telly instead.....pack everything away & just as I'm about to go inside the house, Zwift loads up & starts......balls!!

Gonna have to start getting the laptop set-up as soon as I get home I think & have Zwift logged in before I am actually planning to ride....

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I'm thinking it's a good week off.... if not more.