What's the bitching about? Too fast or too slow, or both? I thought one of the selling points of Zwift is that there's SO MANY FUCKING PEOPLE that one should be able to find a group that aligns with their speed/fitness level?
Dude. I would totally party in that zone.
I have like 1500 miles on the spin bike according to its speedometer...been a good little trip.
Too fast/hard, above advertised w/kg. The rides are categorized by A/B/C/D which equate to a w/kg average over the length of the ride. People think a ride advertised as a 2.5-3.0 w/kg ride will never go over 3.0. They have to pedal at 3.5 for 30 seconds and bitch about it. But they'll also bitch if a group goes off the front and splits from the main blob because they want to ride a little harder. People just suck.
Oh, right.
So I did this ride tonight, there were 8 other guys. We did three (3) laps of a 5.6 mile course. The groups stays pretty chill for the most part, plenty of chatting and drafting and such. There's a hill, and they tend to go hard over the hill and then regroup. Until the last lap, and then it's straight murder each other up the hill, down the hill, and across the flat all the way to the end of the course.
Yeah man, the mini race (and small-ish group) was rad. I've got the power to hang with those dudes, but can't sustain it for as long as required. So... I guess I don't have the power. But doing the sprints will help... and likely translate to "some sort of increased fitness" on the mountain bike. Or at least that's my hope.
This, totally this. Even more so than just a road bike, which will also amplify anything not quite right.
Is your Garmin sensor a newer Dual version which has Bluetooth?
Easy-ish slow cruise for me is like 1.7-2.0w/kg, that’s just shy of 200w. Getting up towards 2.6w/kg is working pretty hard for me. That’s the level I sustained on average for 20 min in the FTP test I did, and at my size that translates into not super fast compared to skinny guys. I’d like to get to a point where I could hold ~300w average (3.3w/kg) for like 5 minutes but I’m not there yet. Also I have no idea what being able to do that on a trainer would translate to in real life, in a ride. So maybe I need to figure out what I want the “real world” effects to be, and go from there? Though mostly I’m just doing the indoor thing to “be less fat” and not have as large of a riding fitness deficit to overcome in the spring.
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Hey now... I'm not making excuses. I'm just making sure there's some air in my tire is all. Sheesh. And really, I just wanna be at the top of the dang mountain with a couple minutes less than a half hour of your wife... you know, so we're not all of us making her wait at the top for our slow asses.
I'm looking for excuses for me though!!Hey now... I'm not making excuses. I'm just making sure there's some air in my tire is all. Sheesh. And really, I just wanna be at the top of the dang mountain with a couple minutes less than a half hour of your wife... you know, so we're not all of us making her wait at the top for our slow asses.
That's the exact temp I have the thermostat set to in our trainer room. By the time we've finished a ride it can be high 60's in there.
What's the cassette you've got on the bike?
The road bike is a 10-33 XDR cassette. I can get an XDR freehub for around $60, and the SRAM Rival cassette in 10-30 for $125. That's pretty expensive on top of the $575 I've already spent on it.
I'll keep that route in mind. Locations seem kind of limited, but I don't really care at this time. Everything is pretty new to me.
