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Ride with Reason Week 3 Challenge: Burn 1,000 Calories for Team Ramsay

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Ride with Reason Week 3 Challenge: Burn 1,000 Calories for Team Ramsay

Ride with Reason Week 3 Challenge: Burn 1,000 Calories for Team Ramsay

Every day, 619 children from across the UK arrive at Great Ormond Street Hospital. And every day their doctors and nurses battle the most complex illnesses, and the brightest minds come together to achieve pioneering medical breakthroughs. Every day is a chance for you to make a difference.

Join us as we support The Gordon and Tana Ramsay Foundation, which is partnered with Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (Gordon is a level 12 Zwifter himself). Zwift will be donating $25,000 to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity to support families with critically ill children. When a child is critically ill, keeping families together is vital. This donation could pay for 80 families to stay for a week in nearby family accommodations so parents are close by while their child is in hospital.

Learn more about the Gordon and Tana Ramsay Foundation >

This Week’s Challenge

Burn 1,000 Calories in Zwift over the week and unlock a set of Ride With Reason sunglasses for your avatar. If 25,000 Zwifters complete this challenge, we’ll unlock $25,000 to support Great Ormond Street Hospital.

About Ride with Reason

November has always been “charity month” in Zwift, with riders working together to complete challenges and raise funds for worthy causes. This year Zwift has broken November into four weekly challenges, with each week focusing on supporting a different cause. Read more at Zwift.com >

Kit Unlock

Completing each challenge unlocks a small portion of the Reason Zwift cycling kit. Complete all four challenge and receive the full kit!

How to Enter the Challenges

Click the orange button to join the challenge.

Zwift Academy 2018 Men’s Finals – Day 6

Eric Schlange
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Zwift Academy 2018 Men’s Finals – Day 6

Zwift Academy 2018 Men’s Finals – Day 6

It’s the final day for Alex, Martin and Ollie: our three Dimension Data Zwift Academy men’s finalists. Today they’re going on a group ride and a coffee stop with Bernie Eisel, one of the most respected pros in the peloton. They’ll also get an answer to the burning question: who will win the contract with Dimension Data’s U23 squad?

You’ll have to wait until Tuesday for the big announcement!

Learn more about the 3 finalists >

Zwift Academy homepage >

Hey Strava: Please Fix Your Segment Display

Eric Schlange
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Hey Strava: Please Fix Your Segment Display

Hey Strava: Please Fix Your Segment Display

Ah, Strava. Your app has helped inspire me to push hard on so many outdoor rides, and it’s helped knit together our local cycling community.

But lately, you’ve made some changes that detract from the experience instead of adding to it. The most recent I noticed just the last week after a Zwift ride. When I went to my list of segments it showed this:

The same segment, listed three times (since I rode it three times).

But here’s the thing… I have starred segments that I rode on this ride, and they did not show up in my list. When I click “View All Results” I see:

Somehow, Strava has decided I would much rather see a useless segment 3x than the segments I have starred. And that’s just silly. It reminds me of the beef I had with Strava’s automatic hiding/unhiding algorithm earlier this year. My guess is the two issues are related.

So please fix it, Strava! If I ride a starred segment, show me the segment! Simple as that.

Zwift Academy 2018 Men’s Finals – Day 5

Eric Schlange
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Zwift Academy 2018 Men’s Finals – Day 5

Zwift Academy 2018 Men’s Finals – Day 5

It’s the penultimate day for our three Zwift Academy men’s finalists in Capetown, South Africa. Today begins with critical one on one interviews with team management followed by lead-out sprint training with Mark Cavendish.

Learn more about the 3 finalists >

Zwift Academy homepage >

Zwift Coaching Podcast 19 – Racing Tips

Eric Schlange
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Zwift Coaching Podcast 19 – Racing Tips

Zwift Coaching Podcast 19 – Racing Tips

Matt, Kev, and Greg share racing tips — positioning, course planning, gearing, and more — in this episode. They begin with tips from the pros gathered at the Innsbruck worlds, but eventually transition into Zwift racing tips with a focus on training for indoor races.

About the Podcast:

The Zwift PowerUp Cycling Podcast features training tips from host Matt Rowe (Rowe & King), with regular co-hosts Greg Henderson (Coach Hendy) and Kev Poulton (Powerhouse Cycling).

Zwiftcast Episode 57

Simon Schofield
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Zwiftcast Episode 57

Zwiftcast Episode 57

Episode 57 of Zwiftcast has been released, with a big focus on the new and upcoming Zwift features.

Simon, Shane and Nathan convene again for another hour of chat on all matters Zwifty.

The trio begin by getting the full story of Shane’s YouTube ban and how it affected him, before moving on to discuss another new extension to Watopia. “Mostly flat”, we’re told. The Zwiftcasters hope that really means rolling terrain.

And it’s definitely coming – world switching. We discuss whether Jon Mayfield’s solution is an elegant and clever thing, or a bit less than what Zwifters wanted.

Quite a lot is changing in the way Zwift could work, and the introduction of Double Draft or True Draft as the podcasters would prefer it to be called could end up as really significant. Simon, Shane and Nathan discuss the devil out of it, with input from racer and podcaster Greg Leo and aerodynamics expert Bert Blocken, an academic who’s modeled the draft effect in a big peloton.

The rivals to Zwift have been making some noise, with CVRCade the loudest. What does it all mean? The chaps chew it over.

After a quick catch up on trainer news, the Zwiftcasters round this one off with a discussion on Zwift Interval Art.

And finally, Simon has a bad knee.

Zwift Academy 2018 Men’s Finals – Day 4

Eric Schlange
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Zwift Academy 2018 Men’s Finals – Day 4

Zwift Academy 2018 Men’s Finals – Day 4

We’re still in Capetown, South Africa where our three Zwift Academy finalists are fighting to win a contract with Dimension Data’s U23 squad. Fatigue is starting to set in after a few days of hard riding…

Today the finalists will do an early morning climbing ride with Dimension Data’s Ben King, followed by a very special “bike handover” with Qhubeka in the afternoon. Qhubeka is on target to give away over 17,000 bikes this year, and the Zwift community is responsible for 10% of those!

Two more days to go!

Learn more about the 3 finalists >

Zwift Academy homepage >

More about Qhubeka >

The Endurance Lab Coaches’ Corner 51

The Endurance Lab
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The Endurance Lab Coaches’ Corner 51

The Endurance Lab Coaches’ Corner 51

In this episode:

  • Fueling for Fondos vs Short Races
  • Traveling and training – tips for before, during and after a long trip
  • Detraining in the offseason, losing fitness
  • Coach Mitch and his favorite FTP test – the Step Test

Announcing the DIRT Friday Sprintapalooza

Eric Schlange
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Announcing the DIRT Friday Sprintapalooza

Announcing the DIRT Friday Sprintapalooza

The DIRT Friday Sprintapalooza is a group ride happening at two different times each Friday. I wanted to let everyone know about this fun ride because I’ll be leading the new Pacific version beginning tomorrow. Hope to see you out on course (and no, you don’t have to be a dad to join us)!

About the Ride

Sprintapalooza was created so Zwifters could have fun and still feel fresh for the weekend. We start out at 2.0 w/kg and slowly ramp it up to a steady 2.5 w/kg. When we approach a sprint area we try, as a group, to go as fast as possible. This means forming lead-outs and talking on Discord so we can all work together to meet our goal.

And what’s our goal? It’s to get the green jersey, and best our time from the previous lap.

Join us on Discord at https://discord.gg/sUnwqPZ

Ride Times

  • Morning Sprintapalooza happens at 2:25AM Pacific. Jason Stern is the regular ride leader.
  • Pacific Sprintapalooza happens at 5:25AM Pacific. Eric Schlange is the regular ride leader.

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Zwift Academy 2018 Men’s Finals – Day 3

Eric Schlange
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Zwift Academy 2018 Men’s Finals – Day 3

Zwift Academy 2018 Men’s Finals – Day 3

Welcome back to Capetown, South Africa where our three Zwift Academy finalists are doing their best to prove they are worthy of a contract with Dimension Data’s U23 squad.

Their menu begins with a three-hour road ride punctuated with hill reps, all in preparation for today’s Zwift race which will see Martin, Alex and Oliver take on each other and 400 other Zwifters in a race up Alpe du Zwift.

Wondering how the Alpe race went? Watch it below…

Learn more about the 3 finalists >

Zwift Academy homepage >

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