and it’s remarkable how zwift makes it possible to spend an hour without hating it (and dare i say it sometimes enjoying it) vs regular dumb trainer making it impossible to spend 30 mins without hating it so hard
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my 20 min w/kg is like 3.8 which should put me squarely in the B racing category, but I have to put out a whole lot more watts per my weight just to keep up with heavier riders. definitely not realistic
Yeah. When i more fit, my ftp was also near 4 w/kg but i only weighed 65 kg so i also couldn’t keep up with the big guys on the flats and would straight up get dropped on a descent if i didnt pedal hard, which is super unrealistic.
That’s why i stick to like C and D level group rides. They’re actually a speed i can hang with.
My friends who are heavier riders have the opposite experience where like my cat 1 sprinter friend is barely a B off ftp numbers, then can sprint at 1700 watts and gets called a cheater and a sandbagger at the end of every race.
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In all online video games there are people who take video games too seriously
zwift is like 50% people taking it way too seriously i think.
either, they care enough to cheat
or
they care so much about people not cheating that they’re constantly upset that someone else is cheating.
i honestly only care about getting exercise and maybe some fitness so could care less if people cheat (although you’re stupid if you cheat at zwift). their cheating doesn’t really take away from my fitness gains.
Dude this all of it
I hate video games but I love the interactive entertainment. I figure with zwift I’ll get a physical benefit at least.
For one, I don’t understand why people get upset at things that really don’t matter.
For another, if people are going to cheat (at anything) it’s probably for reasons I’ll not be able to understand - inadequacy issues, narcissistic issues, trolling others, who knows. I’ll not be able to understand someone who has defined their own ethics I guess.
i’m also in this camp and find zwift is very much not for me. might be weird but what i am into is THIS FUCKIN SHIT:
i usually throw a cx race on the tv while running the ap on my phone.
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It’s impressive how the little incentives can make me put in an extra 5 minutes or sprint out a meaningless 0.15 mile sprint so I can feel validated. Being a fat bastard and almost puking trying to make top 10% in some random online short sprint is the new Goldsprint, apparently.
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Might zwift for an hour or two this evening, any tarckers care to join? I’m on the west coast but today’s flexible so east coaster or central time zones could be accommodated
My trainer comes tomorrow!
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Ugh I just checked the tracking again and it’s been in the next town over since Saturday 
Waiting until the weather becomes completely unbearable here.
also subscribing, the cold and dark times are coming again
i don’t think i ever canceled my zwift sub. but i’ll be back. too hot still but give it a month or two
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Just got a smart trainer again. Gonna re sub to Zwift and maybe do a little session tonight.
Was/is there a regular tarck zwift thing?
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hoping we can do some more zwift-ups this winter
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i am 100% DTZ this winter. i usually ride kind of late- like 8pm eastern. we usually get on voice chat on the discord. yes there’s a discord
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Awesome, 8pm is fine with me.
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Had anyone had a crack at this ?
I might check it out.
Probably stealing your vitals and onselling as I heard it’s free.
Is Blockchain evil ?
Better than the resume powered one some tarckers are on.