Zwift, my journey, my weight and my fitness.

Any positives? Added 0.1W to my FTP! But, I stuck it again and am glad I re-subscribed to Zwift. My aim is to do a race every other day and mix that in with some treadmill work and weights circuits and hopefully I will get the power back quite quickly 🙂

Don’t overdo the intensity Danny – 3 / 4 races a week is absolutely loads (plus running and weights) and risks burn out (both physically and mentally) and flatlining perfrmance. Get on some group rides where you can go steady. Then when you do a crit go big and lay waste to the opposition.

Easier said than dne, mind – easy to do a lot of intensity n zwift.

Excellent post Garry 🙂

@Garry_Lager – cheers and good advice. Yes I’m keeping an eye on training levels and making sure I have rest days too.

At this stage I am just trying to get some hours in at a pretty low intensity. Not going above 7kph on the treadmill and run 8 / walk 2 minutes. Weights are very low also. 10kg on the bar at most and only doing 30s reps x 3 with 60s rest. And then doing that 3 times over.

If I’m feeling it in a race I’ll go right back to < 100 watts for as long as I need. I’m doing short races too- just to keep the boredom off really.

I’ve no intention of giving myself an injury through overtraining but just balancing that with actually doing exercise. As a teenager I was county level squash and a good runner and I need to get some of it back!

Consistency is key DannyB I reckon you’ll be pleasantly surprised how quickly you’ll improve.

Seriously considering nipping to the work storage unit to grab some fans we’ve got there with the way the temp is headed at the moment!

Yes I need a fan. The garage gets very warm in this weather. Will put it on the list for Mrs D when she goes shopping.

intervals.icu is really good for tracking your progress. You have to link it to strava (but don’t worry it still works after than changes) but will give you an indication of your load, your current fitness etc. I used it to ramp up my training load 6 weeks ago. I have double my load over the last few weeks. Now I am used to it I don’t use it as much but it helps you not push too hard too soon.

I use Sporttracks to log and monitor training load etc. Used it for years so it’s what I know. Decent program although I prefer the old computer based version than the online one but the online is more convenient overall.

Yes I need a fan.

I would recommend 2 tbh. And not wimpy ones either!!

I’m going to bail on tonight’s TTT and go out on into the real world as today is a scorcher 👍

Enjoy

oh, what ? eh ? oh… really ? oh.

as today is a scorcher

I’d noticed that.

I *will* do the short route home and be back in time. I *will* I will I will.

LOL if everyone is bailing i’ll get kitted up and goi outside 😛

At present I’ve every intention of attending. I even bought a Cadbury caramel egg at lunch as it was on post Easter clearance and ate it to ensure I had sufficient calories to burn this evening. (I also ate the 2 free ones that would have melted in my drawer if I’d saved them for another day, but that’s a different reason).

The issue is, to coin a phrase, No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

I’m still planning to be there

I’m still up for it! Yeah it’s hot but this weather is forecast for another week at least! How many have we got? Think 4 is the minimum riders really as you need 3 over the line plus you’ve got a spare.

I think we’re 5 at the moment

i’ll still be there fellas… no worries on that side of things. I’ve been resting in the pool and chilling.

I’ve been resting in the pool and chilling.

Taken from weeksy’s twitch feed earlier

I really don’t envy those of you doing the TTT later, my lounge is 24C with the curtains having been almost fully drawn all day with the window open!

Sod’s law on first day off this week, I slept through until gone 0730 rather than waking at ~0400, knowing full well I’d really need to out at ~0630 to have any chance of surviving a 3+ hour outdoor ride in this heat…

Even with both fans on max and trying stay below 180W, I think I would melt into a pool of salty sweat in these temps, trying to complete Tour For All stage 5.

Found 3×16 Inch fans in the lock-up! compared to my old little one gonna be like being in a wind tunnel

@weeksy are you on the Discord channel? makes it a LOT easier to co-ordinate!!

not at the moment but i will be

@weeksy, cool, don’t leave it till the last minute if you’re not already registered tho, think the links expire so you might need to ping whoever setup the group for a fresh link!

edit: think it was @savoyad

all good mate

Weird that. On the hills I was getting turbo slip. Even though I calibrated before event. In the hilly bit I couldn’t put down more than 320w. Not that I would have had much more anyway.
I had good moments and bad in the race. Sav, you’re awfully hard to follow, 0.7wkg then 6 then 1 then 5.5 lol it’s up and down like a yo yo. Complete opposite of me ha ha.

Thanks as always boys, enjoyed the pain.

Yeah, really enjoyed that in a strange way 😂 tough tonight tho, even hotter than I expected, plus with only 5, less places to hide in the draft 😀 good work all, ta to Phil & Danger for dragging us along most of the way 👍

@weeksy thought you had a direct drive trainer?

Sav, you’re awfully hard to follow, 0.7wkg then 6 then 1 then 5.5 lol it’s up and down like a yo yo.

Sounds like he had my wheel perfectly all the way round 😂

It’s remarkable how different pedaling flats feels to clips, felt like a tri transition getting off the turbo onto the mtb this am and vice versa this afternoon.

Cheers for the workout folks. Feel like despite it being all fairly flat I’ve earned a beer today.

@weeksy thought you had a direct drive trainer

Kickr Snap running a 29er Parkwood hardtail with Tacx700*32 turbo tyre.
Only have a 38t on it so sometimes lack gearing.
You’d think with how much I Zwift I’d have an appropriate bike

Well found the answer, 25psi in rear at end of race due to a leak where the valve and tube meet, tube binned and s new one in. Explains the slipping.

Well found the answer, 25psi in rear at end of race

Wasn’t it obvious on the corners, I always notice flats in corners.😉

😂

I loved that!   My first one, with our second team (LPCC2).  Not sure where we came but it was great fun and for a bunch of newbies we stayed together very well. Personally I averaged 3.6wkg but had more in me especially on the flats where I specialise, it’s all a learning curve.

Good times, 30 degrees in my man cave!

@weeksy I found it hard to follow myself tonight, sorry! I lost it in that spell when we struggled to get through the other team – surging then not quite recovering before trying again – and that left me hanging on for the rest of the evening…
Still fun though, thanks all. I’ll get an entry in for next week and paste the link up over the weekend.

Looks lumpy!

Is that next week? If so, I’m a no. That’s a proper proper rubbish layout for me

Oooh, I get home advantage.

How many laps?

Had a bad ride this evening – my setup has always been susceptible to drop outs, but seems to have gotten worse. Moved my laptop to try and improve matters and it spiked me out twice in the first ten minutes! Got back on with burning legs but was basically done, dropped, then dropped connection again for good measure. Bollexed the team up as another lad had been grafting all day and was knackered, and we were 4th and 5th men.

Anyone sorted signal drop out fr zwift? Ordered a USB extender cable as first port of call to sit the ANT sensor under the bike (pedal PM).

How many laps?

2 laps I believe, so just under 28km

I’ve done that course before in a TTT. I got dropped just into lap 2. Evil.

Some TTT results from yesterday:

We took 44:13, which was 39.27km/h.
That put us 286/530 overall, and 30/147 in our category (which this week was Latte). Those are pretty satisfying numbers.