<Tommy>
Illegitimi non carborundum
- Location
- Camden, London
Sorry I missed that. What a truly dignified man he is.
Hope everyone had / is having a great Christmas 🥂
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Sorry I missed that. What a truly dignified man he is.
Hope everyone had / is having a great Christmas 🥂
Randyberlin
Guru
- Location
- Sitka, Alaska
Anybody riding today? Happy boxing day, if that's today.
Randyberlin
Guru
- Location
- Sitka, Alaska
I'll be starting in 38 minutes. 9 my time 6 UK time. 10 minute warmup
shimceltic
Veteran
Wont be on the reride... Off out drinking...
Brusgaard
Ãœber Guru
- Location
- Skive, Denmark
If you want to. I am on MyWhoosh tonight…
Milzy
Guru
MyWhoosh is far superior in every way.
Brusgaard
Ãœber Guru
- Location
- Skive, Denmark
Not if you want to ride (only) downhill.
There BKOOL (and Rouvy) has some routes to offer.One of the leaders in the Rapha Festive 500 on Strava has done a lot of downhill riding on Rouvy to quickly/easily reach the 500 km.
Milzy
Guru
Not if you want to ride (only) downhill.
One of the leaders in the Rapha Festive 500 on Strava has done a lot of downhill riding on Rouvy to quickly/easily reach the 500 km.
That person is only fooling themselves. I did it outside in freezing temperatures one year & on Zwift another year. Went back to work tired & over trained both times. Albeit more family time using indoor method.
Brusgaard
Ãœber Guru
- Location
- Skive, Denmark
Yes I am doing it indoors. Outdoors this month for any riding is just meh. 6-8 degrees, 100% humidity and not even a glimpse of the sun.
I am doing the Rapha Festive 500 and the MyWhoosh 300, so I am already tired… Luckily I am not back to work before January 6th.
Randyberlin
Guru
- Location
- Sitka, Alaska
Not if you want to ride (only) downhill.
One of the leaders in the Rapha Festive 500 on Strava has done a lot of downhill riding on Rouvy to quickly/easily reach the 500 km.
Downhill is great for active recovery. I’m using heart rate variability that @CXRAndy talked about earlier. It does seem to track the overall feeling of being ready to push harder or take it easy.
Yesterday bought tickets to Copenhagen in August to finish my tour from 2023.
200 days away!
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Milzy
Guru
Yes I am doing it indoors. Outdoors this month for any riding is just meh. 6-8 degrees, 100% humidity and not even a glimpse of the sun.
I am doing the Rapha Festive 500 and the MyWhoosh 300, so I am already tired… Luckily I am not back to work before January 6th.
Do we have a dedicated MyWhoosh thread?
I think after their recent updates the platform is as good as Zwift now. Free to use too. I wonder if they’ll keep it free by advertising. Bkool is cancelled because it’s so dark & dingey. It’s like a dull men’s club type of platform. I think it could lead to depression. MyWhoosh is delivering everything I want to see & more. I can’t wait to recover & get on again, not had that feeling for years now.
Christmas has rather dented my improving score to the low end of balanced
I find endurance riding in the morning and good night sleep really improve my HRV score
Brusgaard
Ãœber Guru
- Location
- Skive, Denmark
Only this I think: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/mywhoosh-vs-zwift.293644/
Until further notice it should be free forever, and there is less advertising (if any?) than on Zwift. You CAN buy the season passes and get early access to stuff/routes or some other stuff not else available in the game. But you don't have to.
Yes, BKOOL is about as dull as TrainingPeaksVirtual, and could really need some new graphics in higher resolution and brighter colours. But at least you can find lots of (mostly lower quality) video routes on BKOOL.
There are issues with every platform out there including MyWhoosh (MW). Zwift is 10 years old by now, but as long as the add stuff they also introduce new bugs - like any other software on the planet! MW is only 4 years, and of course lacks a lot of the stuff that Zwift has added in the 6 extra years.
MW also "requires" better hardware to begin with, both in regards to a proper trainer and "game device". You can get most non-supported stuff working using 3rd party apps like QZ Fitness, but what happens to the accuracy of the power etc. reported going through an intermediary device? Is it amplified, smoothed, and does it come from a trustworthy trainer or some supermarket dumb trainer with a speed/cadence sensor from Temu estimating power?
It's getting pretty tiresome on the MW Facebook page with people complaining about their old devices (tablets, phones, streaming devices) not being able to use the latest releases, and the updates taking 1h+ to download every 1 or 2 months (5 minutes on my 1 Gbit internet). People really are using potato stuff out there, and of course a FREE platform must cater for all their old stuff, slow internet etc., so they themselves don't have to invest anything. Geez!
Buy a 3rd gen Apple TV 4K, a decent Wahoo, Tacx or Elite trainer from within the last 4-5 years and you should be good to go! Else a half decent Windows desk-/laptop or Macbook from the last 5 years with 8 GB RAM should run the non-HD version just fine.
MW is a fresh new platform with beautiful graphics and lots of new routes to explore. Only thing missing is the ability to do long downhills without having to go up first.
But as with most platforms, other than Z, it needs more active/concurrent users.Also people should sign up beforehand for the rides/races they want to do, instead of just showing up at the start. It is pretty easy to do so in the Link app, but I rarely see more than max 5 signed up in the app, even if 30+ are eventually at the start line!
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Randyberlin
Guru
- Location
- Sitka, Alaska
