Zwift Chat

[CXRAndy]

Thanks Andy.
I now have a secret recovery weapon- a sauna! The cheapest one you can buy from Robert Dyas. Always loved a sauna and really nice to get into it post session/workout. You must have one? Or at least room to fit one in?

Don't tell the wife, she's been nattering me to get a sauna and a jacuzzi

I made a decent recovery myself from yesterday's event. I started 100% body battery (BB) dropped to 19 by teatime. I went to bed early, broken nights sleep, but sufficient time to get back to 90% BB.

I've stopped alcohol and pretty much all other types of drink, fizzy or caffeine based. I just drink water, sometimes with a small amount of salt . My recovery and sleep is much much better

 

[Mo1959]

I downloaded Rouvy yesterday to give it a try for a change, but not sure if I'm going to like it and keep it or not. Will have a few more rides before the 14 day trial period is up and see. Biggest annoyance is they don't show the gear you're in on the Wattbike, or possibly any other bike, not sure?

It's nice to see proper scenery rather than the gamified experience in Zwift I suppose.

Anyone else use it?

 

[HarryTheDog]

I have tried Rouvy but stayed with Zwift, my fiancee has carried on with it on and off. She prefers it as hardly anyone on most of the routes so she is not constantly overtaken by steams of riders . Sometimes she is the only person on a route. She also likes the ghost rider features so she has some company doing the same speed as her. I found that rouvy controls my turbo with far more "reality" than zwift, ie downhill I span out regular on rouvy , whereas I don't on zwift even with settings set to 100% reality. I prefer Zwift as lots of people on all the routes and I am naturally competitive even on a training ride.

 

[Mo1959]

I have tried Rouvy but stayed with Zwift, my fiancee has carried on with it on and off. She prefers it as hardly anyone on most of the routes so she is not constantly overtaken by steams of riders . Sometimes she is the only person on a route. She also likes the ghost rider features so she has some company doing the same speed as her. I found that rouvy controls my turbo with far more "reality" than zwift, ie downhill I span out regular on rouvy , whereas I don't on zwift even with settings set to 100% reality. I prefer Zwift as lots of people on all the routes and I am naturally competitive even on a training ride.

Pretty much my thinking. It's a bit of an extravagance, but I might keep both. Some days I like the busyness of Zwift and trying to keep up with others, and some days I just want to enjoy a quiet scenic ride with hardly anyone around.

I did think I needed to put more effort in on the Rouvy ride I did.

 

[alex_cycles]

Pretty much my thinking. It's a bit of an extravagance, but I might keep both. Some days I like the busyness of Zwift and trying to keep up with others, and some days I just want to enjoy a quiet scenic ride with hardly anyone around.

I did think I needed to put more effort in on the Rouvy ride I did.

You can do a private event or meetup on a Zwift route which means you will be the only person there if you want to avoid others.

 

[steverob]

Wattbike also offered me a free trial of Rouvy but I haven't got round to downloading it yet. Maybe when I pause Zwift for the summer (which I normally do) if the trial is still available then, I might give it a shot and see what it is like.

 

[Peter Salt]

I downloaded Rouvy yesterday to give it a try for a change, but not sure if I'm going to like it and keep it or not. Will have a few more rides before the 14 day trial period is up and see. Biggest annoyance is they don't show the gear you're in on the Wattbike, or possibly any other bike, not sure?

It's nice to see proper scenery rather than the gamified experience in Zwift I suppose.

Anyone else use it?

I gave Rouvy and RGT a go but also stayed with Zwift. Not sure I have anything more to say than others already mentioned. I don't care about visuals that much - don't mind photorealistic or full Mario Kart graphics. Also don't really care if the roads I'm riding virtually exist in the real world or not. Having lots of other riders around, especially in races, is great in Zwift.

 

[JuhaL]

I have ride recently with Tacx Training app and Rouvy. I like them both, especially yesterday I ride Lago di Resia & Nauders route on Rouvy. That route was very good or nearly fantastic video quality and views was awesome. Overall I like Route video quality and routes as well.

 

[Legs]

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Pushed quite hard at the start because I wanted to hang onto as many wheels as I could… then just tried to keep around 300W. W’bal ‘only’ down to 7.2 but I don’t think that my capacity is anywhere near 25.9kJ at the moment…

Because I'm really sad, I've got an Excel spreadsheet of all my split times on the Alpe (I might have shared this before). Here are six of my last ten efforts, expressed as minutes ahead of 50-minute pace. Interesting how all of my fastest four efforts have converged around Bend 6 to Bend 5 (no more than 5 seconds apart at Bend 6). Bend 4 to Bend 2 is where it gets really grippy!

 

[CXRAndy]

Pedal harder from turn 8 and 7 😁

I could see there was a slight drop in power then rises again before the finish.

Really is a mental game to keep the effort going.

Could you not use a bot to create an even pacing so you can ride with or keep ahead?

 

[Venod]

Pretty much my thinking. It's a bit of an extravagance, but I might keep both. Some days I like the busyness of Zwift and trying to keep up with others, and some days I just want to enjoy a quiet scenic ride with hardly anyone around.

My thinking exactly, I rode Zwift when it was free, but soon tired of the cartoon aspect and limited routes, so I used the Tacx platform for several years, it has superb film quality, I came back to Zwift, its a lot better now and I enjoy it, but I missed the films, so now I have Rouvy as well, currently doing the Babble Tour of UK, I did the Cairngorm ride this morning followed by a pacer ride on Zwift, as you say a bit of extravagance having both, but I am not here forever. Rouvy does seem to require more effort.

 

[Legs]

Pedal harder from turn 8 and 7 😁

I could see there was a slight drop in power then rises again before the finish.

au contraire, 8-7 was one of my highest-power segments - note that the gradient of the line is effectively the average speed, not the segment power. Horizontal line would only indicate that I'd done the exact speed required for a 50-minute ascent - which is 15km/h - but this requires different powers depending on how steep the road is!

 

[bobinski]

Pretty much my thinking. It's a bit of an extravagance, but I might keep both. Some days I like the busyness of Zwift and trying to keep up with others, and some days I just want to enjoy a quiet scenic ride with hardly anyone around.

I did think I needed to put more effort in on the Rouvy ride I did.

Road CC reviewed it recently and gave a 4-8 week free code if you want to try it for longer...just to be certain.

 

[Mo1959]

currently doing the Babble Tour of UK, I did the Cairngorm ride this morning

Wish you hadn't mentioned that. I joined it and have just finished the Bodmin one. Maybe it would be easier on a trainer with a lower gear set up, but my Wattbike was on the lowest gear on anything above 7% and the couple of steeper ramps almost had me at a standstill! Looking at the elevation for all the rides in the series, that might actually be the worst............she says hopefully.

 

[13 rider]

Wish you hadn't mentioned that. I joined it and have just finished the Bodmin one. Maybe it would be easier on a trainer with a lower gear set up, but my Wattbike was on the lowest gear on anything above 7% and the couple of steeper ramps almost had me at a standstill! Looking at the elevation for all the rides in the series, that might actually be the worst............she says hopefully.

Is that route coping the tour of Britain route ? , I ridden quite a length of that stage in real life it's brutal absolute no rest Cornish hills are not long but they just keeping coming at you one after the other