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Indoor Training, and Virtual Racing (ZWIFT)

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Fridayish could work
I need to make Friday's ride a morning/early afternoon ride. Will that work for you guys?
Lunch time (NY)?
noon ny time works for me
Wow, beaten to the punch. Who is organizing the zoom/hangout?

https://www.velonews.com/culture/join-the-velonews-wednesday-group-ride-on-zwift/
^almost as soon as I posted that the weather took a turn for the better. I think I'm headed outside for some quality gravel time tomorrow.

#stircrazy
I'm not going to be able do the noon ride tomorrow but I'm going to be dootin around Z1-2 for the next 2ish hours in Wattopia. Join me if you're hopping on soon! 
Is noon today still the move?
I’m gonna ride later now 
Balls, well I’m out here in innsbruck if anyone wants to hop on
Yikes! SOrry lads homeschool ate my day :(
Ouch my taint hurts just thinking about this https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/geraint-thomas-to-ride-12-hour-shifts-on-zwift-to-raise-funds-for-nhs/
I'm in the lone virtual zwift club currently in beta and have no idea what the point is.
I'm in the lone virtual zwift club currently in beta and have no idea what the point is.
I am too. The club is too big, so not helpful at all. But if it was just Kissena, for example, I could see the benefits.
eloy said:
I'm in the lone virtual zwift club currently in beta and have no idea what the point is.
I am too. The club is too big, so not helpful at all. But if it was just Kissena, for example, I could see the benefits.
Me three. Useless.
I think I'm going to hop in the Redbeard Group ride on zwift tonight! I'm also not sure how I got the invite? I think bc I follow Mike from RB on Strava and Zwift. Come join and shoot the beans for an hour if you haven't already ridden! 
Consistent with recent experiences of pretty much riding unders/overs the whole way through each race....

https://cyclingtips.com/2020/04/how-many-watts-does-it-take-to-win-a-zwift-race/
Hey All You Cool Cats And Kittens!

Im making a zwift event for next Sunday 4/26 at noon. It will be a 3 hour ride in the greatest flat london course (XP gainz), and everyone will be kept together (by zwift). 

Also will run TR at the same time if you dont have zwift for a TR group ride... So you can actually chat instead of staring at peoples avatars butts!

Join anytime after your morning race for a portions or the whole thing. Im riding z2 about 200 avg for the whole time. For TR it will be Maclure on if you're gonna use ERG mode, or just come on and spectate. 

Let me know, ill be doing it either ways. Find me on zwift "Kevin 400WATTSCLUB" comment here, and ill invite you.  ;)

PS If needed I can also run house party at the same time also. 
Kevin Man said:
Hey All You Cool Cats And Kittens!

Im making a zwift event for next Sunday 4/26 at noon. It will be a 3 hour ride in the greatest flat london course (XP gainz), and everyone will be kept together (by zwift). 

Also will run TR at the same time if you dont have zwift for a TR group ride... So you can actually chat instead of staring at peoples avatars butts!

Join anytime after your morning race for a portions or the whole thing. Im riding z2 about 200 avg for the whole time. For TR it will be Maclure on if you're gonna use ERG mode, or just come on and spectate. 

Let me know, ill be doing it either ways. Find me on zwift "Kevin 400WATTSCLUB" comment here, and ill invite you.  ;)

PS If needed I can also run house party at the same time also. 
that sounds sweet, but they’ll be a castelli that same day at 10am
eloy said:
Kevin Man said:


Join anytime after your morning race for a portions or the whole thing.  
that sounds sweet, but they’ll be a castelli that same day at 10am

 I think Kevin set this up as a "cooldown" / long endurance ride post-race! 
@Kevin Man count me in.
Virtual Look Sharp.

Let's try a zwift meetup for look sharp this friday. 

Friday April 24 7:30am -- we'll ride about 40km very easy.

How to join:
1. Follow me on zwift
2. Let me know you want to join (post here, or text me: 347.225.1058)
3. I'll invite you to the meetup

Will probably pick a flatish course, I love watopia, but might pick another world to avoid virtual crowds, depending on interest we could setup a zoom.

Wear the 'classic 1' bumblebee jersey, and if you can orange hat, orange socks.

I think I'll be available! 
Raced the weekly USAC Race League. Finished 39/192 Avg power 337w, 5.42w/kgs with a hot 20mins at 349w. New FTP from this haha.

Got an email about this race and after figuring nobody from Kissena would hit up the A Castelli race, decided to give this a go. In the warm up pen, I saw a bunch of legit names; both Williams brothers, Alex hoehn and a few more Legion/Floyd's names. After nice ramp up warm up, I let the watts crank out for the first 3mins in order to not get dropped. Once we hit the first lava climb, things began to kick up big time. I was on the back of the main pack trying to not get absolutely dropped at 6-6.5w/kg. Eventually, a small group fell off and managed to catch back on the descent, were we hung in until the second time up. The last 5 miles there was a group trying to just make it to the end, including myself. Out sprinted a guy for 39th. 

After the race, I looked up a bunch of the names and most are like Cat 1s that finished around me. Definitely, hurts a bit seeing how good of shape I am with no IRL racing. I wonder what USAC will end up doing with these race series.
Not applicable to our upcoming meetups, but this could be a cool way to do some structured workouts together (for those interested in structured workouts). 
https://zwiftinsider.com/zwift-meetup-group-workouts/
love it!
I'm not sure if zwift Meet up is like TR where you can join and leave as you please during the ride. But for Sunday if you decide to show up for vo2 or sprint workout, feel free to do whatever. I know most just wanna chill after the race. But zwift will keep up together nonetheless.

On TR Group ride feature we usually have the a workout going on as the durations and use the video conference features. Everyone in there can do their workout or the one on the screen.

Best way to double dips is just having either your phone or your bike computer for your workout. And have TR or zwift as the social group part on your computer, or second devices.
https://twitter.com/cuttrupludwig/status/1252905647575875584?s=21
I’m planning on joining Kevin’s Sunday ride. Did you decide to run discord?
I’m going to join too after the Castelli Race. Can you join the meetup after it starts?