I did road to ruins last week not a bad route, send me an invite not sure what I am doing tomorrow may tag along.

Was going to do all three of the challenge, have changed my mind probably do a Zwift ride Saturday out Sunday for a real ride. Will give it a miss I suspect now.

Thanks all – be Uber Pretzel Next as a challenge or Four Horsemen.

Can’t make this weekend sadly might ride tomorrow will see how effective SIS recovery shake is 🙂

@robbo hope test is negative for you

Mega Pretzel ticked off, one stop at 35 miles for 12 mins.

After 10 miles I did think gone wrong way it didn’t seem to match Zwift insider, kept going and then it did seem to hit the right points and it was an nice ride, turned out all good.

Bar a mental wobble at 52 miles where I was rationalising in mind if could finish it, convinced I could, head down to the end.

Four different Spotify playlists helped.

I can’t do the Friday invite, as I may do an IRL ride, Going to look at having bash at all Three Haute Route looks an interesting challenge, as what I had on that Sunday just got Covid Cancelled so am free now.

@oop north I’m very lucky and have home gym it’s great, same wall colour as you have in your setup currently too 🙂

Nice setup Robbo

Good ride this mornin. I did the Richmond UCI loop after. That’s me done for the weekend on riding and probably not on Zwift till backend of the week few bits on.

Hope to join on ride again soon

I’ll be on the morning ride I think though a third evening ride on reflection be a bit much & I was a optimistic on that so after the morning ride going to rest up 🙂

I couldn’t do Thursday, if my mate isn’t Riding Friday I might give that a go as a plan b.

LOL the Alpe is a good climb to see how your doing :).

Tomorrow is less climbing fortunately, I have a SIS delivery due today so will be stocked up and ready.

Though as it’s flatter I’ll have to see if I can keep up as the flats seem to be my issue, happy with hills need more work on the flat!

It is something I have spent a bit of time looking at and I notice the difference in performance as well as what I ate the day before has an impact like big lunch light dinner not great really for a longer ride by that for me be 90+ mins

But we are all different and you have to find what works, that ride we just did is well over a 1000 calories burnt one gel is around 90 cal’s so that delta has to come from somewhere and we did over 2hrs, you can do a good 1hr fasted over that need to look at something on the way to top up, at least for me.

Biggest climb done for a while I went on to get 47 miles and 1890m/6200ft climbing done all in, wanted to hit 100miles for the month so that’s done.

Mega Pretzel is similar climbing today but more distance so I reckon that is in scope for a cold winters morning maybe a later start for that.

I felt good on the climb not my fastest but it wasn’t horrid on reflection, bit of pain 2/3rd up but nice and consistent and picked my av wattage back up on the last 4 or so corners. Was less painful than it was the last time and we did a bit before it.

Fueling is important and I think many forget that an indoor ride is still going to need fueling like an outdoor ride it’s still burning calories, I’ve been bitten by poor fueling and energy loss so I do keep an eye on that. During todays ride I had 2 x Gels, 1 mini bag of skittles and a banana, having had Porridge and Banana at breakfast before it.

No I don’t use Strava any more just Garmin, I have though found what I need in Zwiftpower though only from events…..

@opp north I am all good for not riding tomorrow I’d pass in Figure of 8 🤣🤣

Is there a way to find my previous times on climbs like the Alpe as I’ve not done that climb for ages, not that I expect a PB based on the route but you never know ;-)

ETA – Just found PB in Zwift Power

Are you using O365 Forms App https://forms.office.com, if so I don’t believe it will do that by default.

I’d share the form as a template to each line manager and have them then send the link for the form to their staff as the quickest route to achieve individual answers and the manager control the answers (this assumes you are using O365 and each line manager has license with Forms rights!)

If you are into Power Automate you could assuming the form has the line manager selectable be able to update a different spreadsheet or sharepoint list with the data for each line manager probably use a switch based on the line manager then a different action for each line manager to update a spreadsheet or sharepoint list.

I’ve signed on for all three and will try and make all three, at least that’s my thinking at the moment, need a rest day tomorrow so glad there wasn’t an invite in their for tomorrow as I’d have tried to make it, and really need a day off! The Saturday one looks a toughie!

Even though I started late due to the tech challenges, it still kept the full 45 mins before I got the finish line notification.

Good ride enjoyed it this morning once I got going

Good timing on the invite from tomorrow was just considering what to do tomorrow AM 7am works for me.

Yes is annoying the selected route doesn’t get the badge, felt good this am, tomorrow running and most likely working away next week so be a bit of time before I am on Zwift again.

Good commute today, enjoyed that, I got the badge for the route After I rounded up the ride up with a few more miles, when I got to the top of the first mini climb were you turn left to head down to viaduct it gave me the badge there.

That’s me Zwifted for this week, may do Friday but likely other app, and Sunday rest day this week.

Stages looks good, like the look of that.

The gears on the V1 Atom were fixed about 15 or more months ago now with a software update, there as instant as you’d want really.

Don’t use and haven’t used ERG mode so no idea whether that’s good or bad on the Atom :)

The V2 uses a different resistance setup so is supposed to be even better with Zwift, though I’ve not found the V1 lacking on Zwift with the way I use it.

I use a Wattbike on Zwift, and have data in Zwiftpower not seen any issues with power output, it is consistent across all the apps I use it with too.

What happened with yours? It’s not something that’s I’ve seen come up in the owners group chat.

Definitely a good addition. I feel like I’ve had a good cycle today so much so all I’ve done today is a family call then watched motorsport on ITV4 all afternoon :)

Felt good early on then had nothing in my legs in the middle after eating a banana, a gel and some skittles I came back for last 15 or so miles, no sandbagging! just didn’t have the pace at times (which I need to look at and improve on)

You’ve all definitely upped the pace, the start felt fast and busy with the others around.

Great ride, not sure where I was in the middle :) think todays reading will be how to improve pace on flat bits…. LOL

Thanks All certainly a good pace set!

Not been a good Indoor bike week, done a couple other app rides when I could, a Track day and been away with work with a few late nights hampered time, have accepted Sunday that sounds good and also Wednesday I can’t do Tuesday.

I had a mileage stretch target for the month which really looks like a stretch now….

I am not Zwifting this weekend and probably not next week too as a few bits on..

I was on time but no messenger when I shut the app down the bike disconnected so was stationary for a bit then paired it to ATV and did an update on the app but still the same, will reinstall and try it again as the update didn’t sort.

I am not a fan of repetitive laps but went on to do 3 in the time and as I’d started competed the 4th.

No pace today tired and hot 😂

Message issues today need to work out the issue with that later !

I don’t recall my hill time and no idea where to find it post ride, 44mins is a very respectable time I did 48:12. and came in 101st.

Don’t think I’ve done any of these group rides that hasn’t actually felt anything but a race…. LOL I either think I’d like to finish within the top half, top 1000 top 100 and you kind of then get a bit sucked in to pushing on, and also you do naturally push towards the rider ahead.

Sounds like did a damn good effort and in less than ideal conditions.

It’s was warm enough this Morning 🙂

Great improvement well done

Good work, I thought I passed you, I had a bit of tech issue got to the start with about 60 seconds to spare and messenger didn’t seem to be working, when I was awake at 4am with load of stuff spinning in my head I didn’t think I’d make the go at all so worked out fine.

A false chase that’s quite funny a good motivator though.

Looking forward to France did a cool down on there after the tarmac event, I’ll see if I can do the Thursday one too.

My messenger wasn’t working or everyone was silent today, first large group ride with no chat, anyhow quite warm this morning for that much climbing, enjoyed it though was good, hope to see you tomorrow

I’ve put Tuesday 6am in so will virtually see you there.

Can’t do this weekend will look at the Tuesday long course Tarmac ride may do that with you.

Just looked at the Tarmac times not very friendly are they for morning rides might do some early starts LOL, I’ll see!

Good news on the all clear, felt quite good this morning despite being so very tired, a rest day for sure tomorrow.

May do this over the time it’s on https://zwift.com/events/series/7-days-of-tarmac-sl7 depending on the times of the events.