Cool temperatures hovering around my outside bike ride threshold caused me to chose Zwift for today’s bike ride. Scanning the Zwift companion app I landed on the ZSUN Saturday Social Ride starting at 12:10 PM. This time the route followed the Watopia’s Waistband which was mostly flat with a few short climbs thrown in to challenge my flatland legs. The ride lasted 60 minutes and I managed to bike 14.03 miles. At the start I saw 401 people registered and it didn’t take too long for me to be near the back. Occasionally a rider or two passed me but most of the time I enjoyed the scenery.

Since my last Zwift event I got a new phone and the Zwift companion app wasn’t connecting to Zwift. Fortunately my desktop computer’s Bluetooth connection was strong and all of the sensors connected. I powered my phone off and restarted it then the companion app connected. I like to use it to see where I am in relation to the group and map.

Before the ride I had time to tweak my bike, hair, helmet, shoes, and socks. Using the Wahoo Utility app on my phone I enabled ERG Power Smoothing to see if it had any impact on my power output. My power seemed to be a little higher but still lower than what I generate on the road as measured by my Favero Assiomo pedals.

Below is my ride data summary from Golden Cheetah. 84% of the ride time I held power to zones 1 and 2. This is 2 times my typical road ride. I think I need to do a spin down on my Wahoo Snap smart trainer to validate the calibration. On the road my max power is usually 400+ watts but today it was 195 watts.

No personal records on today’s ride according to Strava.

The full ride video is below.