Well done boys. Said it before, but I think London is one of the harder worlds even when you're not on the hills.
Need a rundown of the entertainment. Which movies? What music?
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Well done boys. Said it before, but I think London is one of the harder worlds even when you're not on the hills.
Need a rundown of the entertainment. Which movies? What music?
Everyone knows double draft negates any sock height effect.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennymac
I think it’s awesome that Dee wanted a spreadsheet so badly without his computer that he wrote one on his top tube in crayon.
For some reason I don’t get bored on zwift - even riding 11 laps of that loop. I have music playing (mix of 90s hip hop and techno) but have yet to feel the need for putting a movie on. My wife thinks I’m crazy for getting up early on a Saturday to ride for 6 hours - more so that I don’t get bored.Quote:
Originally Posted by huckbucket
I guess part of the lack of boredom is due to my need to focus on managing my effort closely or else I’ll bonk or blow up. I felt like ass at the 75km point. Took a break and changed my kit and drank a bunch of fluids and felt good after that.
Legs are super sore today - a lot more than they were after Uber Pretzel last month.
I had the football on. I watched 3 full matches with all the in between game analysis.
I don’t really get bored in Zwift there’s enough to look at, and enough metrics to keep my mind moving. Constantly calculating lap times, estimated overall times, reverse calculating watts to w/kg, calculating what power zone that is based on FTP.
I also like to look at all the other riders and picked out some new kit I want, based off of what looked good out on the road. I have some new shoes, glasses and a helmet in my upcoming future level ups, some motivation for more XP points.
I can’t have anything on the TV for a TGR ride. I’ll focus on a break away in a hockey game, and then look back at the Zwift screen and realize I’m 15m behind the group.
For this big ride I set my iPhone to beep every 10 mins, so I would drink, and on the 1/2 and full hour I’d eat.
I had lots of shirts ready for changes, and did the bib change/cream re-apply on the downhill coast at the 3:20 mark. That only added 2 mins to my normal lap time.
I agree it takes some concentration to keep yourself in your power zone (to avoid over doing it), but with two big TVs in front of the bike, it’s a quick glance between the two screens.
I also run my Companion app on the handle bar, with my Garmin out front computer also going, with data from a my crank based secondary power meter.
Garmin screen is set for a 4 field screen w Watts, Average Watts, W/kg (instant, not 3 second smoothing) and cadence. I look at the power numbers on my bars more than on screen, even in a TGR ride. I think it mimics my normal outdoor riding habits.
I felt pretty good the whole time, I only felt bad for that stupid final 10km after the lap 11 banner. But I think I was mentally done by then, especially since it was 20 minutes over my calculated time.
Legs actually feel pretty good today, just really hungry this morning. I just did a 25km spin to move some blood in my legs. I got Mrs Dee a new Wahoo Kickr (ordered in Oct!) so we did a little side by side spin at 2.0 w/kg in France to knock out a badge.
What do you have your phone mounted with?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dee Hubbs
I'm in the process of trying to glue a Wahoo male mount to an iphone case and I think it's going to be sketchy at best.
I use this oneQuote:
Originally Posted by XtrPickels
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B078L...b_b_asin_title
You're on the right track. I'm on the same program, but I used 2 part epoxy to ensure it was not sketchy.Quote:
Originally Posted by XtrPickels
I paid some young whippersnapper $10 to 3D print me a few Garmin male mounts. I epoxied one to the back of the cheapest soft plastic $5 iPhone case I could find at Walmart. Then I just used the Garmin Female bar mount with rubber bands. It stays mounted to my bike. I just snap my iPhone out of my everyday case, and snap it into the bike case.
I oriented the male mount on the iPhone case so that can run the iPhone vertical on the stem with my Gamin Computer mounted out front, or I can run the iPhone horizontal on the out front mount.
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I think I need to grab a different case: The silicone one is proving to be a bit "non-stick"
Pleased to report that I am no longer a sockless heathen.
Also, after trying to watch a movie during one of Zwift's canned interval workouts yesterday, I'm probably giving up on that. It screws up both the movie and the workout. I need to either watch even shittier movies, or try out music or podcasts.
Music is good no matter the intensity, podcasts and movies definitely better served by easy to watch/listen. I wouldn’t want to watch anything serious, but action flicks are usually my go toQuote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
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Yeah but if you are doing a lot of easy rides on ERG mode (and easy rides are important) movies, especially bad ones, work great.Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
Edited to say you better not show up with 21cm socks...
If you're into that sort of thing Survivor is the shit for ERG rides. It's super predictable, doesn't matter if you miss several minutes, entirely inconsequential, but still pretty damn fun. I didn't even know I liked it until started zwift and was hunting for something to watch.
Movies are hard during workouts.Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
But, a soundbar and subwoofer immediately in front of you are great...
For base rides, I put a TV series up on the TV. I've watched all of Breaking Bad, Etc. this way. I only let myself watch it while riding, this keeps me looking forward to the next ride.
I recently bought a cheap monitor and used an HDMI splitter to keep an eye on Zwift.
When Racing, doing workouts or an event, I run Zwift on both so that I don't have to constantly be looking up at the TV.
AppleTV running Zwift to the Splitter. The splitter then goes to both the Monitor and the TV.
This way I can change Inputs on the TV to the Chromecast to watch shows.
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The ride tomorrow is showing as 6 pm Pacific, rather than 5 pm. Is that correct, or some kind of daylight savings hiccup?
Thanks Dan I'll look into it.Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
Updated to Tuesday 18:00 MST and Thursday 16:00 EST.
6 riders tonight (almost 7)
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Justcuz KR
Merlyn SS
XtrPickles
VtSkibum MP
Grmountainman GR
Dee Hubbs (could only hold on for 2 laps)
Honorable mention to DanPDX who shows up to the starting line, but never made a single pedal stroke in game (I bet he was furiously pedaling IRL)
I won’t be there Thursday, I have the late volunteer shift at the Vaccination Clinic. (Plus my legs need a rest)
I noticed Zwift asked for an update on my AppleTV once I ended tonight’s ride. Check to make sure you’re App is up to date.
Thanks for hosting as usual DH, especially on post century PRL legs
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Sorry I missed boys. All this training thread talk convinced me that what I really needed today as a nice base ride. So that's what I did.
"Look coach, I did it right. Once. But still."
I'm planning on Thursday.
Dee, just sent you a follow request (SC). I'm still working out the kinks with getting Zwift setup but hope to join everyone soon! :yourock:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dee Hubbs
I see you fool!Quote:
Originally Posted by fool
Yeah, this whole Zwift thing is cool when it works. I lost connection with my trainer right as we started, and when I re-established connection, it put me on the course 5 minutes behind the group. Of course, I could have caught up, but I want to sandbag a few more weeks so I just bailed. (/s in case it's not clear)
I could try a different computer or buy an ANT+ dongle. Anyone here see improvements from switching to an ANT+ dongle from Bluetooth or Zwift Companion?
I was running multiple things off Bluetooth (power pedals, HRM, wireless keyboard and trackpad) and was getting bad lag in zwift - like 10 seconds for my pedal power/cadence changes to register while otherwise the program was running fine.
I bought a USB ant+ dongle (it has a 3-4 foot cord out to a little ant+ tower thingy that I put on the floor near my pedals). No more lag.
I had to get an ANT+ dongle and extension USB cable for my 10+ year old laptop that doesn't have BLE... once I found the sweet spot to put the ANT+ antenna I've had no troubles pairing my KICKR Snap and Garmin cadence sensor 2 with no lag.
I think there's a bunch of posts in this thread about ANT+ stuff if you can search it...
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This is the one I got.