will be jumping on the 9:15 am Kissena Zwift ride today. Join me if you can.

Yacks got back in the ring...the hr monitor crapped the bed again (I'm looking at you Wahoo).  Clawing back the wattage..
https://www.strava.com/activities/906580585

Nicely done.  
I can't get my Garmin HR to pair.
And then Margarite comes along to ride a couple of hours at his 300W tempo.  No joke, that's a tempo pace for him.

Oh I saw his file....the bastard !!!!  I left him a message "I'd like a 24 hour moratorium on u posting any rides after mine...just when I start feeling good about my power #'s I have to look up and see you raining watts for 2 hours...."

yeah, HR is kinda iffy on zwift for some reason... sometimes it detects my wahoo strap no problem, other times not at all. Whatevs

my wahoo strap transmits in ANT + to my bike computer...and it matches the zwift moitor...so it is reporting super low and inconsistent #'s = time for a warranty.

I'm doing the 12:30 WTZ race...if anyone wants to join me

Jason Gay and the WSJ on Zwift:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/confessions-of-a-zwift-addict-1492092413?tesla=y

Cavendish reports on using Zwift as he trains back up from the tour crash.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mark-cavendish-geraint-thomas-and-i-would-make-a-wicked-madison-team/

eloy said:

Cavendish reports on using Zwift as he trains back up from the tour crash.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mark-cavendish-geraint-thomas-and-i-would-make-a-wicked-madison-team/

Yeah all over his instagram stories 

I was going to say that Cav's bike handling skills will deteriorate by sitting on a trainer in Zwiftopia all day, but then I thought to myself,"What handling skills?"

#toosoon?

anybody want to race 8:20 tomorrow morning?
http://zwift.com/events/view/25681

Yacks is racing...3:20 pm
yeaah baby

This one hurt daddy...but may have just jump started my road winter road training
https://www.strava.com/activities/1269619595

Yacks' Zwift sprint is....wait for it.....INCENDIARY !!!!
https://www.zwiftpower.com/race.php?id=14954

don't like the increase but I can't race against silver man anymore on my computrainer...

https://www.strava.com/activities/1320218280
yacks did a 30 minute crit tonight and it was the bomb!  I'm old and have been told that I need to keep intensity (& fiber) in my diet.  This little crit is perfect for a Tuesday night in the winter...join me suckah's

Anyone zwifting this afternoon? or tomorrow? or sunday? or the rest of the winter if this choice weather continues 

Weekdays I'm usually on in the evenings for an hour (830ish). Weekends mostly early afternoon for an hour+ (1p). 

FYI Charlie cancelled the Kissena specific rides/races from 2017 because I stopped leading them. If anyone wants to pick it back up we can probably ask him to set up another one.

was there this morning. Plan to be there tomorrow.

We can meet up, say 9am? lmk what works for you.

I may be there...and Eloy...don't fall cause I'll be riding an inch from your back wheel...know you love that

It hurt like a Floyd race...thinking of dumping broken glass,  asphalt & rail road ties next to the computrainer and leaving a joint burning for a 4D immersive affect.

Nice catching up to BVS and Thierry on the virtual road.  As always Yackeroni is off in his own stratosphere.

Oh Yanger

Whoa!

I just got a new Apple TV and damn! I love the Zwift app integration. That was sooooo easy. All I have to do now is figure out how to meet up with you guys... I still don’t understand things like how to choose the island vs London. Maybe one of you regular zwifters (is that a word?) could post links for newbies. It would be good to get some regular Kissena group rides together. 

Money last thing. I understand you can use the mobile app to message people. Sounds okay as long as you’re not in the pain cave. Is there a way to do audio chat? Anyone do so or is it too much of a bother? Inquiring minds want to know

PatrickG said:

Whoa!

I just got a new Apple TV and damn! I love the Zwift app integration.

Awesome.

You don't. Zwift is on a schedule, and the game puts everyone on the same place depending on its own schedule. There are ways to hack it, but then you'll be only person on the location.

Typically there are rides/races or "Zwift Events" you can sign up to. For example tomorrow, there's a ride at 8 am or another at 9 am that I'll join. We just have to agree which. You can see the schedule here:

http://zwift.com/events/ 

Else we just have to find each other, just like we would on the real world.

When you are about to start, Zwift tells you if anyone you "follow" is riding, and lets you start your ride on their wheel.

Of course, you can just ride on your own. And workouts.

Not via zwift. People connect sometimes on their own -- via phone, whatsapp, or more commonly Teamspeak. I think Yang had setup a channel, not sure if we ever use it.

It is a word.

There's plenty of info out there about zwift. Some people take it crazy seriously.

My favorite resource is Shane Miller's "Swift Zwift Tips" -- here's all of them as a youtube playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLeDc5AkDnMO-3fewHlDVN0eYflRParDSv

Yackron, OH decided to poke at my gut today and strung me along up the mountain route.  Well I'm drinking milk, and if 80s milk commercials that played in between after school cartoons have taught me anything, I'm going to grow big and strong and turn into a total creep.

https://youtu.be/0G6JymgFusw