Zwift Chat

[bobinski]

Lee, as another older man all I can say is that I am learning I can hopefully go a little faster for a little longer. I couldn’t hold a 1 1/2 to 2 h cg ride and now I can. For me it was partly about building stamina a but also learning to ignore my inner panic around HR and go by feel and like Tommy, how I am breathing. So HR goes up towards max on flats but then I know I need to put out more effort to make decent pace and hr will reflect that but so long as I can just about control my breathing all will be fine. I think I have some progress to make on the ups where it’s less watts and hr I struggle with put breathing. Sorry, all me and not much help to you

 

[CXRAndy]

Nothing wrong with heart rate. Only downside is on the rides where you are tired or temperature is markedly different it can skew your effort. Where as power is power, you instantly know you're good if you can hit the numbers

 

[Breedon]

i think we were all a bit late to jump on the athlete boat but it just interests me
if i was to go on watts , they vary so much i would get lost
up hill i know the watts and heart rate i feel i can maintain for a while but once you start going downhill or flat then i can get heart rate going bonkers but watts are no where near the same ? is it a case of just knowing what you can do on certain gradients
old in the tooth but willing to learn !

I mostly go by how i feel but im tending to use w/kg alot more than hr or watts

 

[Breedon]

I hate zwift, went on to do a sub 2/2.5 ride for TrainerRoad but free riding, so i can ride out of the saddle ended up doing in the region of 3 w/kg some times with some other people sharing the draft .
Might do it in erg mode tomorrow so there's no temptation

 

[Breedon]

sounds good ! - it says flat so i guess i am in for a good old fashioned whupping by my piers !
5.15 should be just about the right time though if things go ok

Wont get home till then got to pick up HID up from work might be doing the zsun ride at 7.15

 

[Whorty]

To be fair I think I got that wrong. Think that was 41st overall.

which race? i can't see you in any results on Zwiftpower

 

[CXRAndy]

That's why I stay off Zwift other than racing, it's far too easy to be drawn into competition with others

 

[Norry1]

Traineroad for me tomorrow hopefully.

I’m just hoping I can stay away from the races enough to give traineroad a proper go!

Yep it is just too tempting I managed to do a 5-6 week TR block but am now treating myself with a couple of weeks racing. The plan is then to go back to another TR block.

 

[Whorty]

is anyone racing tomorrow ? can't do tonight i have just had physio on back my a woman who should be a pro wrestler ! - she said i may be sore but i wasn't expecting this

Was her name Helga!

 

[CXRAndy]

I'll see how I get on with a combination of TR and Zwift till mid January.

 

[Whorty]

And rejected

(Nothing personal bud )

Only sent it as I knew you wouldn't accept You spend enough time with us on here, you don't wnat us on FB too

 

[Whorty]

Excellent
Now, what about the rest?

Tell me the segments and I'll have a look. Only going to remove the ones where i know or suspect there was a problem when I compare against my average times or where I know i was in a race and was in a group for e.g. not the Team World Trials as the fast speeds here were as a result of the peleton speeds.

 

[berty bassett]

Was her name Helga!

she was smaller than me - a real little dot ! but she had a lot of pent up anger - i feel like popped bubble wrap

 

[Whorty]

If you go to the Edit Activity window in Strava youcan tick the "Hide from leaderboards" box which, I think, will stop any of your segment performances on that ride showing up... not sure but I think

Thanks - spotted that and it does work Maybe others (@bobinski ) should do the same

 

[Whorty]

she was smaller than me - a real little dot ! but she had a lot of pent up anger - i feel like popped bubble wrap

Smaller than you?!?! Was she a child