Zwift, my journey, my weight and my fitness.

Sorry chaps I’m bailing on this mornings ride, have a good one.   Feeling tired in the final day of the final week of my 2nd Build cycle and have a tingly throat so I’m going to do the sensible thing.

Cheers all enjoyed that. A baptism of fire on my zwift return. It seems some of you stw lot actually ride bikes!

Lol just a bit yeah. We’re not nearly as rubbish as some think.

I got a 1200 watt sprint at one point and still didn’t win one ! Thanks for sorting it weeksy, I was therewardismorecheese by the way. Forum and zwift names don’t match

My fast run was with the help of a power up

I’ve noted people’s reluctance about the wisdom of doing a TTT on Out and Back Again. I share it.

Anyway, the team entry is in: same time as last week: Thursday at 6.30pm. All welcome, up to max 8 riders.

Riders, please enter here: https://www.zwift.com/events/view/713952 This week, enter CATEGORY D (whatever your normal category, we are in pen D so enter category D). This is a change as we’re in the frappe pen rather than the latte pen this week; it doesn’t affect the results as they are automatically rearranged according to who rides anyway.

If you haven’t ridden the TTT before (or if you’ve disassociated yourself from the team since your last ride) append “(STW)” to your zwiftpower rider name at zwiftpower.com…zwift profile…settings…rider name. I’ll check these tags nearer the day.

There’s a discord link and if anyone signs up who doesn’t have it we can paste a working one here in due course.

Looking ahead, next week will be a bit more sensible again (Volcano Flat) but after that there are a couple more tough weeks to come (first Magnificent 8 58km, then the lumpy Harrogate circuit). Let’s see how it goes from here.

I’ve thrown my pointy hat in the ring again. Bring on the suffering…

I’ve noted people’s reluctance about the wisdom of doing a TTT on Out and Back Again. I share it.

Yep, I’ve entered though! You’ll never become a Watopia-crushing superman if you only train your strengths 😂

I’ve entered – well done Zilog6128, that’s the way to treat it – it won’t suit us, we’ll be dead slow, but we’ll work as a team, do the best we can whatever that is and learn from the experience!!

we’ll be dead slow

I’m confident we won’t be alone.

I’m in, well, until the volcano anyway!

Edit: just read the bit about a 58km route in a couple of weeks – that’ll be emotional.

just read the bit about a 58km route in a couple of weeks – that’ll be emotional.

I reckon we treat that like a Paris processional and just have a good chat and drink champagne all the way round.

BTW, I don’t know why you wouldn’t (I just click yes for anything lol) but if you haven’t, definitely sign up for the CeramicSpeed mission… apparently makes your in-game bike fractionally faster for the whole month of May 😃

You have to complete a certain number of miles on regular bike/TT/MTB to enter the prize draw, might be worth having another MTB meetup this month so we can rack up some MTB miles?

@zilog6128 how do we sign up?

Should just pop up in the top left of the startup screen, after you log on but before you start riding. Easily missed. You have to opt-in to start the mission. (Possibly you might not see it if you haven’t updated your Zwift app)

https://zwiftinsider.com/ceramicspeed-mission/

I have read before that signing up via iOS makes you ineligible for winning the prize draw, so if you’re bothered by that and you Zwift on an iPad/iPhone/AppleTV probably best signing up on your Mac/PC instead!

Signed on the dotted line for the TTT!

just read the bit about a 58km route in a couple of weeks – that’ll be emotional.

It’s flat at least though right?

Thanks @zilog6128!

Dan seems to be in E not D

@weeksy fixed now. Sorry mate.

Anyone tried the Android version? Seems smooth and quick but can’t get it to pair with ant+ devices despite having the bits installed I think it needs

Pissed off, haven’t been on zwift for over a month thought I’d go on it this morning and it won’t recognise the password and seems to refuse to send me a new one.

@weeksy I often use the Android Zwift app, used it other day for my first turbo session in over a month, but I don’t use ANT+ on it.

I think some ANT+ support is there, but it’s far more limited than BT.

https://forums.zwift.com/c/android/9 might enlighten you.

@weeksy android is very smooth, but has limited connectivity over ant+ – in particular it can’t connect the controllable trainer (fec) profile, which is fatal.

I don’t trust my trainer over bluetooth, so I don’t know if that’s better.

Yeah it’s smooth as silk and BT seems fine, but my HRM is Ant+ only as is my cadence sensor.

I’m just thinking about times when laptop Zwift is playing up etc.

I got a cheap coospoo hr monitor of amazon. Think it was about £20 and works great for Bluetooth and ant+. Same for a cadence sensor.

Meh, mine already work. Lol. So shouldn’t really need another imo

Managed to get up the Alpe in today’s race in 44.25 which I’m mega chuffed with, reckon it’s those ceramic jockey wheels that got me under the 45!

Lol that’s terrifying. I’m about 75min

I know it’s not your cup of tea but doing it in a race makes a big difference, plus some of the onscreen graphics make it much easier to pace than other races.

Gave ‘Quatch Quest’ a go today – got over the Epic KOM climb in good shape by my standards, then slowly died on my arse up the Alpe. I’ve just swapped my Tacx Vortex for a Saris H3 – much smoother pedalling, but I think the Tacx might have been flattering me on the steeper ramps of the switchbacks.
To top it off, the ride didn’t save, so the distance and height gain haven’t been added to my totals.

just read the bit about a 58km route in a couple of weeks – that’ll be emotional.

It’s flat at least though right?

Apart from the KOM climb which ever way yes. 58k though, that’s got to be a sold 1:20 racing. Must remember not to go so hard early on!

lumpy Harrogate circuit

This was evil. We did two laps, well I say we, I got dropped about a quarter of the way into lap two.

Managed to get up the Alpe in today’s race in 44.25 which I’m mega chuffed with

Rightly so, that’s damn quick. Well done :D.

Anyone watching the Pro tour race for all on Eurosport ?

Just watched the womens, won’t spoil anything, but excellent racing 🙂

Yeah I’m watching really good and much improved production from some of the other previous events.

I was pleasantly surprised by production quality having seen some of the YouTube pro races. You would have thought the teams would have given the riders some Zwift lessons re: power ups, saw some strange usage in both races.

Couldn’t stay off so I’m in the 5:10 tour stage race in B. Anything other than last really in race like this

Haha. Does that mean you are in for tomoz evening then? I did the earlier race but was a recovery ride so stuck to a max of 170 watts. Was disciplined and did it as well and still had fun as I wasn’t last and caught a lot of people who set of before me being consistent.

I’m trying to decide on the first tour race, with my working and the weird zwift timings, it’s either 6am or 8pm for me, both not ideal. Next ride after 6am is 9am, too late, shame they don’t have one at 8am.

Anyway, legs are a bit cooked from the last few days so I might wait a couple of days before racing. I jumped on a ride yesterday and got burned, I’m not used to the pace of Cat C yet, I was good for the first 45 minutes and in the pack, but I fell out the back at one point and couldn’t get back on. At that point I jacked it in.

Yeh for some reason they seem to stop at 2 until 5. 2 is a bit early with work and at 5 generally sorting out the kids teas. Not sure why there is nothing in between.

No mate, I’m not. Today was a disaster of epic proportions and I need to have a proper word with myself and take time off.