Zwift indoor virtual reality trainer

Sounds like that just excessive smoothing on the power reading to me. Meh.

I’ve done my 25k or whatever it is you get free on Zwift and...meh.

I’m riding my fixed bike on dumb rollers and just using speed and cadence sensors so I know my game speed/power etc isn’t going to be very accurate but I don’t know that being any ‘faster’ would make it any more enjoyable. I think I just find the graphics and stuff pretty dull, I’d rather go back to watching some footage from someone riding up Stelvio or that on youtube.

It seems to knock my speed back to a crawl on any climb and I did find that pretty frustrating. I tried increasing my cadence on the climbs today, using them as intervals almost and it blasted me up the first one but then I don’t know if it got wise to my non-resistance trainer or what but it didn’t seem work after that.

I’ve absolutely no interest in racing or really following a training plan, just wanting something to make sitting on the rollers a bit more interesting.

I’m sure I saw someone mention on here another thing like zwift that worked better for fixed/rollers?

Failing that, does anyone know where I could find some roller ‘session’ instructions that I could look at? I was doing my own version of intervals and stuff while watching vids/listening to music but I don’t know if what I was doing was really any good. Like I say, I don’t want to follow a training plan like I know you can on zwift but just having some sessions to look through might help.

There's loads of individual workouts you can do without being on a calendar based plan. If you select "ride type" -> "training" on the screen before you start riding there's loads that are grouped into plans but you can just do any you like the look of.

I’m doing sufferfest at the moment. Free trial, structured workouts (following power or rpe) targetting cadence, form, endurance, whatever, plenty of pro tour footage. Silly meta narrative of becoming a sufferlandrian/resisting donuts but don’t mind it that much when the sweat is everywhere. Most importantly, no choppers. Worth a look?

6pt podiumed? I guess there were no sprints then?

Oooh. Sick burn

Plausible. Does the Devil count? Iirc I rode that one pretty dickishly.

Ah ok, that might be kinda good actually.

I’ll have a look. Cheers.

No- it was all decided on a long drag up that hill back from Downe that made me cry every time we would ride it together.
Those were the days.

@6pt I feel sufferfest fits your riding personality type.
Personally I like having someone to virtually race/ a hill to virtually swear my way up.
Also their videos are the singularly most irritating thing.

Long time ago.
At the tail end of last week’s sunshine (during a particularly tedious garden turbo session!) I had a flashback to that lovely sunny day we smashed it to Cambridge on a Wednesday morning or something for a quick swim in the Cam. Which wasn’t quite so long ago, but also forever at the same time. But I feel this isn’t the thread for reminiscing about riding outside.

The Sufferlandria videos can be grating but there are some particularly mundane videos on there too - I did an awful 2x20 the other day where the footage was two people from GCN riding turbos to footage of one of them riding up a mountain in Italy while they talked about turbo training. For an hour.

It's getting steamy in here!

When 'this is all over' an hour of power is surely in order.

What was the username of that guy who rode a forest green fixie and moved to the US? E something?

Edit - was thinking of @C.B. he was a strong fella.

Trawled through the the thread from about 9 years ago to find that. So many old names who I remember riding with on various occasions.

I’ve got a really weird block about riding outside now. Not been out-out on a bike since maybe September last year. Best I can manage right now is snatching an hour of turbo here and there between emails and baby entertaining anyway so I might never make it out again (not biologically possible for me to join the @andyp dad o clock club, even though I’m up at 0500 far more than I’d like at the moment).

@t-v very much so
@6pt could use the torpedo with kiddo on board?

I’ve got a really weird block about riding outside now

Fuck. Some sort of intervention is required.

I’ve got a really weird block about riding outside now.

Yep. It goes away the more you get out.
It sort of starts telling the family you're secure they can look after the washing machine themselves.

I've done Andy's dad o clock a couple of times. It's not pleasant.

I’ve got a really weird block about riding outside now

Fuck. Some sort of intervention is required.

A mountain bike is required - riding in a forest is fun, riding amongst cars is annoying.

I'm 3 years into this dad business and I'm still not going riding at flipping 5am

Same. Then again, I barely ride at all.

I reached that same conclusion about myself.

The thing I really miss is having 3 pints at the regent after a ride then getting home and sitting on the sofa like a melon for the rest of the day. Usually watching the 4pm Super Sunday Footy.

Parenting has absolutely ruined that.

This is the most interaction I’ve had with anyone that’s not screamy fleshball or wife since maybe January. God I miss people.

Same. Same.

I miss being feral on a Tuesday night.

I used to like dad o’ clock solo rides when not doing the crepuscular group thing on a Tuesday, but then I just gave up completely about six years ago, flogged some bikes, remembered I like running better. My son’s pretty handy too.

Now the athletics season’s so fucked I can forget about the National Masters’ in Aug/Sep, I’m taking the opportunity to rest and hopefully fix my tendinopathy, and this has meant dusting off the 2002 Kinesis winter trainer (my one remaining geared bike) and my 2003 Cycleops turbo to try and keep my heart and lungs ticking over. I may even end up on Zwift if I get the requisite tech…

Next thing you know I’ll be trolling the fuck out of this forum again.

Oh oh....

Getting the gang back together