On the road to 200. Only back on Zwift after about a year off the bike. Last few weeks have felt good!

Is this training score realistically relevant to planning training the following week?

Just did my first ever ride on zwift did a 5km ride in 12:46 don’t know if thats good or not but i am proud of my self got the zwift as i have basically done nothing for the past year and needed to get some fitness back.

One question i do have is do any of you find it harder than riding outside i could only get it to 120watts and around 26 kph without feeling like i was passing out

Hi...

What the hell is going on?

My "virtual bike" in game stops moving if I stop pedalling despite being in a tract with -2% inclination...

I chase down all the XP I can when I’m not doing other activities on ZWIFT. Question: For new routes you get 2X XP, the Hell of a Route Chaser it’s advertised you’ll get 250 for completing each of the first 4 routes + 1000XP for the 5th last route. Will this be added on top of the new route 2XP usually rewarded?

Hey

I'm thinking about getting a Zwift Ride, but I'm not sure if it's the best choice for someone with my experience. I'm a casual cyclist who mostly commutes to work and occasionally does longer rides on my gravel bike, my longest ride was about 75km (46miles)last year.

I want to get more active and boost my heart rate. If you're a beginner like me, I'd love to hear about your experience with Zwift. I've heard it's popular among pros, which makes me a bit worried. Will I feel discouraged being at the back of the pack? Are there many beginners on the platform, or is it mostly for pros? How does it work for those just starting out?

Any advice or experiences would be appreciated:)

When I try to connect Zwift companion app to my Wahoo account it takes me all the way to the Authorization Required page in Wahoo and when I click authorize it just sits there.

I’ve tried it online. I’ve tried it on my app and I get the same outcome.

Hi All, I have a Canyon Endurace CF 7 AXS and I also bought a Wahoo Kickr Core to use for Zwift riding. After watching several videos on how to mount the bike, I am struggling to mount mine on the trainer - it seems that the rear axis is too wide for the trainer... and I am afraid to break the frame by putting all together. My trainer has a Zwift Cog.

I tried yesterday, and I will try today again... can you please help me with this? What might be causing this? Anyone had the same problem?

Thanks a lot and let me know.

Small note: my bike has a 12-wheel casette and the trainer has a Zwift Cog

There's a strange wireframe glitch that appears on my holoreplay avatar and was wondering if anyone else had experience it.

Repro:

• Apple TV on latest Zwift version
• Animated Pocket Scotty *ON*
• Route: France "Bon Voyage"
• While HoloReplay is active during a sprint section, the avatar shows strange animated wireframes

I suspect that this is due to the Scotty animation that is buggy on HoloReplay, but I'll have to do some testing to figure it out. This is the only image I was able to get and it's not great. I'll try to get more today.

How's it going so far? Is it intuitive or buggy?

I've linked up my Garmin Connect to send to Zwift and I'm reading it should pull a few months of historical activities into the Companion app - it hasn't yet occurred on my end.

I'm thinking it's slowly rolling out to users. So I'm just kinda waiting to see what it looks like.

Morning all,

Since the start of the day I am getting notifications from the various groups I was part of. I have tried everything, even leaving the group (like the Herd) but I am still getting notifications of the messages on the companion.

Aside from deleting the companion, anyone else has this issue and how to stop it?

For info, I have muted all notifications, I have left the group but I am still bombarded by all these messages.

Thank you

Who else yet? Done a stupid number of hours on Zwift the last couple weeks. Now to start on a second Pinarello.

Sorry if this has been asked before , but does the treadmill need to be able to 'connect' to my phone ñ/zwift ? Or does zwift get all of the data only from the pod ?

I run on the treadmill at the gym once per week but the treadmill has no way of connecting to my phone. Don't want to buy a running pod if it's going to work on its own

Hey guys,

So I cycle 250-300kms a week. Half indoor, half outside. I much prefer outdoor cycling and only use zwift after work during week days . On weekends I usually do 1 - 100km+ ride and another cruisy 60-80km ride.

During the week I usually just jump in on the pacer groups (either coco, Yumi or Jacques, pending if I wanna go easy or push myself abit more.

I always have Fridays off, and sometimes a Monday.

So pretty much what I’m asking, are pacer groups helping me get stronger/improving or should I swap the pacer rides for some training session that zwift offers?

I’ve done a couple training plans before and seen improvements but I can’t always dedicate 4-5 days a week to it.

Is there a specific workout you guys do a couple times a week?

Appreciate any input !

After almost 3000km and 100 hours on the climb portal over the last 2 months, I collected around 200,000xp. Here is a breakdown of how efficiently xp-farming has been for me on the 12 shortest climbs (all under 7km). Generally speaking, the shorter the climb, the more XP per distance and per hour, but that's no surprise. Learnings:

• Climb portal is BY FAR the fastest way to level up, especially on climbs shorter than 7km. You get an average of over 2000xp per hour. For comparison: a fast hour on Tempus Fugit with a pace bot may make you 800xp, and a fast climb up the Alpe around 1000xp if you get lucky with the spinner.
• Oude Kwaremont is xp-farming heaven. With its 1.7km in length you get a power-up every 20 seconds or so. I spent 17 hours on that climb, collecting almost 3500xp per hour.
• Choose 50% elevation, you'll get the same power-ups but move faster on the uphills.
• A TT bike will ONLY give you the small power-ups (10xp) , not the big ones (250xp), and no feathers.
• Overall, the distribution between big-small-feather is exactly 10%, 65%, 25%. This varies quite a bit between routes, and even more so between individual climbs. The longest I went without any big power-up (250xp) was 4 climbs! But then in the rare occasion you get 4 big power-ups on a single climb.

Why am I doing this? Just because this is how I motivate myself to stay in the saddle indoors, while April here in Canada is still full of freezing rain and the occasional snow storm :D

Is the clunking sound here anything to be worried about? It can be heard more clearly when freewheeling. It’s the Kickr Core that came as part of the Zwift Ride. I’ve been told it could be the print on the belt or that it’s the flywheel catching the cover. I have no idea!

Since today this happened in the new "France" route. Been Zwifting since December 2022. Never had any issues except today on my Macbook Air 2023. I'm VERY frustrated.

Is there a way to see ALL of your times for a particular section, not just the last 90days? Or does Zwift dump the data? Only asking cos I knocked 2mins off my Volcano KOM time today and want to see if it’s my fastest ever.

Being blunt, I bought the zwift to train for an MTB race, a zero to hero, where I've never had to prep a week long race. I got the Zwift and knew that it would tick the box for endurance etc.

Cut forward 5 months, 1700km later on the Zwift and we're out on a sun holiday before our first child arrives. We both still try to train, so we booked an active spot in Lanzarote, I think it's a big tri spot.

I rented out a road bike and did my first ever road spin yesterday, thinking that it was just going to be another spin like on the zwift in ways.

I stand MASSIVELY corrected, I did about 65km and 1000m very on my first ever road bike spin and it really was great! After I adapted to the gemoetries of a road bike 😅 It really changed perception of the exploration and enjoyment side of road biking. For those of us that have come from a fitness focused use of Zwift, I really hope you take the time on your next holiday to explore an island/area and relax like this. Talk about, finding what feels like a hack. Really really loving the Zwift and these little discoveries you make along the way.

As proof, the link is below, with a photo of a beer, something I don't typically reward my self with at home 😉

Check out this Flyover of my ride on Strava: https://strava.app.link/LjPLLa67mSb

I'd love to know if anyone else has bumped into this really lovely outcome, or is it just small few folks.

I have one 'decent' classic fan. 'Pain cave' is in a basement below ground with cement flooring. Think 20c upstairs, 4c in the basement.

Winter, no problem with heat. Had problems with getting into the room (close to fresh, moving body of water/lot of humidity) and being able to go all-out without stinging my eyes.

What are your fan set up? I have, as I mentioned, the one. Usually turn it on when I start to develop sweat beads on my shoulders. Bib/base shirt soaked at this point. Is this is a thing? Am I supposed to have certain types of fans?

The neck fan seems neat. Do I just need a bigger fan?

Hello.

I am thinking of getting a zwift Kicr Core with the cog and click.

However I am using a older bike and I am running in to an issue where the axle is not clearly able to be removed.

As such I am wondering if I can switch this out with a normal thru bolt or if it would be safer to get the zwift bike.

Thanks any help is appreciated.

We recently moved, and with the new setup, our trainer is in a basement that's kind of a pain to access—definitely not ideal for swapping the bike on and off regularly like I'm used to. I’ve always used my main road bike on the trainer (kickr), but now I’m seriously considering picking up a dedicated ride for Zwift to keep things simple.

Curious if anyone else has made the switch—how did it go? Anything you wish you’d known or done differently? Did you go for a second-hand road bike, zwife ride, a smart bike, or something else entirely?

Appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.

finishing the group ride did not work. maybe a race? any help would be appreciated.

Averaged 144bpm at 195w (the idea) is the effort was chill meant for sustained climbing given id never done a climb as such with it being so long. Had to stop twice though to fix a bandage on road rash.