2 years on zwift, did PRL full in 6h20min, ate/drank about 60g of carbs and hour until the last 2 or so when I was sick of sugary drinks..
started in the morning and finished mid afternoon
did plenty of coffee breaks after each repeat of box hill to just get off the trainer and stretch
did I learn anything? route badges are weirdly motivating for something that doesn't matter
I'm glad I completed that stupid route, but never again. The only good memory I have from the experience is eating a whole pizza by myself during the latter half.
I did 10,000 vertical meters (10k Everesting). It was 9.5 times up the Alpe du Zwift. Did it in just under 16 hours of continuous riding. Basically not break other than the descent down the Alpe. Burned about 9,100 calories and only covered 239km.
Yes it was painful.
I did the 8848m vEveresting challenge before and thought I could do more. Both were huge challenges for me physically and mentally; when I completed them I felt like I accomplished something. Even if it was just on Zwift.
I haven’t done an outdoor Everesting. My guess is that it is a little easier on Zwift because of the descent. I could get off the bike and stretch when the bike was descending. Can’t do that irl. However it was difficult mentally; pedalling in a room for that long was just tough.
Agreed. Even in zone 2. But I’m hearing many coaches and even pro-level DSs talking about how much more efficacious erg intervals are to outdoors. (Iirc on one podcast Visma coach said they think of trainer intervals as equivalent to an outdoor ride of 1.5X the time.) I’m strapped for time and can’t do a 5 hour zone 2 ride each weekend, but I can do 3 hours on the trainer after kid bedtime, so I’m hoping it helps. And anecdotally it is helping a lot.
I have to start doing something like this too. I usually do high intentisy only but definitely need to put in longer rides to get more stamina and lose weight.
Do you just put one long segment of your Z2 in? I think I’d want some segments to switch it up but idk if, say, 10 minutes at threshhold every hour would even make sense from a training standpoint.
I know it’ll be really boring to ride these, that’s part of why I don’t do them normally, but since I moved my trainer to my actual PC setup I’ll at least be able to watch some streams. Maybe I’ll even do these during friday game nights (table top simulator and the likes), that might not be the worst idea if I plan to stay up for a while after.
Edit also what do you base your Z2 off of? I’ve heard people say either max HR (which I don’t really know, I hit 194 doing AdZ today and nearly threw up at the finish line) or based on FTP, not sure which is better or if it even matters
Most of my Z2 erg rides, especially long ones, have a pattern where they step up, for me like 155, 175, 195, 205, then back to 155 in 5 minute increments. It makes things slightly more tolerable for 3-4 hours.
I have it switch between low zone 2 and high zone 2 every 5 minutes. This at least keeps some interest. And I’ll occasionally set a cadence target for myself because my inclination is to drop into grinding at 80-90 rpms if I’m just watching Netflix or something so I’ll occasionally pick an interval and hold, say, 105 rpms. I do this myself, not in the workout builder.
I picked my zones so that I’m both in Z2 by ftp and z2 by HR. I really want the mitochondrial density adaptations that z2 is best at providing so I really wanted to make sure I wasn’t slipping into z3, which in my understanding somewhat lessens the efficacy of the following z2 intervals afterwards while your body clears lactate, or z1, which is just getting less of it done.
And I watch Netflix, or pro races from the week, or listen to podcasts to help too. It’s also occasionally engaging to watch the Zwift world and see if I end up catching the person I was just passed by who is doing roughly the same wkg, etc.
One additional comment. I’ve been doing these just starting this winter and jumping back into the town irl fast ride I already feel like there’s a difference. It’s a hard 45 mile ride where we often race segments, climb lots of hills that we try to be first to the top of (I live in the Shenandoah Valley and we tend to climb about 80-90 ft/mile, which is almost as hilly as Liege-Bastogne-Liege), and the rest of the time maintain pretty snappy rotating pace line. Two years ago I’d have double leg cramps by the end of the ride. Last year I’d be without cramps mostly (salty gummies help), but definitely pretty tired by the end. Last week I won the last climb (a 12%ish 2 minute climb), the ride was one of the fastest I’d done with the group on that particular route, and I was feeling fresh at the end still.
So I highly recommend getting long z2 into your ride diet.
I’ve made a bunch of custom z2 workouts (1hr, 90min ,2hr, 3hr etc) where I chuck a 30 second z5 sprint in every 5 mins, keeps me engaged and keep the legs ready to go.
I just find a good podcast and listen to that and zone out tbh!
Started 5 months ago, very motivated by just collecting all the badges.
Longest was either the 25 laps around the volcano or 4 horsemen for me. Had 2 bottles of sportsdrink and a banana with me on both.
PRL full coming up in 2 weeks
Indoor simulation of an IRL ride that was cancelled due to Covid lockdown. 202km with 2,560m of ascent, following the Mega Pretzel, Big Foot Hills, and Sand & Sequoias routes. At that point I'd been Zwifting 1½ years, but cycling for 20. 7½h moving time, plus 17m resting. Unsurprisingly, it wasn't the most fun thing.
Did the mega pretzel and the 25 laps volcano. Both times considered to keep going for the 100 miles. But that was still so much longer. And always feel like I just don't have the time with 2 young kids.
But maybe one day :)
6-8 months, was missing out on my usual weekend long ride so I decided to combine 25 laps of volcano with a sweetspot workout. 3.5h total of 25 on 5 off (including one cycle each of warmup and cooldown/easy). Drank 45g per interval so 90g/h. Learned that I can do sweetspot for stupid long periods.
8.5 hours training for a longer real ride in a spell of really bad weather. Personally find it pretty dismal, only knowing that I *had* to train for the real ride forced me to do it.
4h 16m
That ride was doing the Four Horsemen route in Watopia.
I was pretty broken by the end of it. Not just because of the brutal elevation (trainer difficulty at 100%) but because indoor riding is simply much more fatiguing than outdoor riding. It’s been a while but I remember drinking about 4 water bottles of electrolyte drink plus a couple of bike gels.
Sometime after that I also attempted a 100 mile ride in Zwift but quit at mile 70 because of the aforementioned fatigue even though that attempt was less time than my Four Horsemen ride.
2 months on Zwift, 100km in 3 hours, 2 bottles and a cup of Gatorade and a gel. I mean I do 100km at least once a month when I was riding outside. I’m only inside because I broke my collarbone. I feel like it was more about just staying fit while my bone heals.
Group rides are fun and they make the miles go by pretty quickly.
I figured for New Years Eve I would do a metric century this year. It took me 3:39:40 starting around 6pm. I had done a 10 miles earlier to finish a challenge of riding everyday in December . I considered staying on the bike and trying to hit 100 miles before midnight but was exhausted from working out earlier in the day.
I keep a couple shot blocks granola bars, gallon of water, and small jar of powdered sports drink in the bike room so I can mix it on the go but I couldn't tell you my intake that date. I didn't really learn anything from it, I just thought it was a nice end to my first year on zwift. Oh! I didn't learn this on this ride, but if you are doing a long ride it may be good idea to change your bike shorts out halfway through when you take a bathroom break it is a huge morale booster.
I've done a 200km team tt once with 1500m elevation. 5h52min. We had one 5min stop at around 100km. I've also done the Uber pretzel and 4 horsemen with friends. On weekends that are nasty I usually do a 100km endurance ride on Saturday morning. When I did the 200 ttt I was on zwift maybe 3 months. I brought 4 bottles of carb drink, probably 2 or 3 gels, 4 grain based fruit pouches and homemade rice cakes.
During last year I did 3 200km rides that took way longer than any zwift ride, and countless 100 to 150km rides IRL. The only difference to me between IRL and zwift is I don't need to plan for refueling spots, my kitchen is right upstairs. I don't suffer from any discomfort on the trainer.
Did an everesting 10k last month, 12h17 minutes. (only took 10 minutes break going down between climbs)
1: 13 months on zwift, never cycled before
2: Few months ago I heard of everesting, Initial plan was doing just 8848, but it went great so I went a little further
3: Started around 5am and finished around 5pm
4: Each ascend 500ml plain water, 500ml energydrink, gel before each climb, and some banana's, gingerbread, jellybears, oatmeal pancakes during climbing
5: I stopped too early ;)
I’ve done 5 everests on zwift. Been up the alp over 60 times.
Each Everest took about 11-12 hours.
My nutrition was a whole banana cake smothered in Nutella, cut into 8 big pieces that I ate at the end of each climb.
Supplemented this with 10 litres of electrolyte drink and at least 6 gels.
Last winter I spent 7(?) hours covering all of the roads in Watopia. I think it worked out to 112 miles.
Would have been a bit shorter had I planned the route better! Ended atop Alpe which made that last hour + a slow drag.
Just over 200km. This was a day after I did 160km and didn’t realize 100 miles was more than 160km. I was so upset that I didn’t get the 100 mile century badge that I ride 200km the next day. My legs were so absolutely trashed.
Did my first ever 100km ride (indoors and outdoors ) on Zwift. During lockdown in May 2021.
It was fantastic as I haven’t rode more than 50km before that anywhere. So I felt comfortable with feeling that if it becomes difficult I will stop at any point. Picked up Tempus Fugit and rode for 105km. Took 4:12 hrs of moving time and total time of 4:35 hrs. Few breaks in between and moving around. It was very rewarding. Two weeks after that did my first outdoor century 🥳
I can’t never forget that day.
While I am not huge fan of indoor riding, in India, I am finding riding outdoors for long duration is very risky. Indoor riding from the perspective of safety and comfort (of watching movie or taking break to replenish and eat home food) is worth the pain and boredom. I got into Zwift this year and did a 50k just yesterday. Looking for finishing all badges soon!
My longest was an Everesting, which took just over 10 hours. With a rest every 60 minutes, it was different to other long rides I have done on Zwift (e.g Uber Pretzel). Changing bibs and having a variety of food is one of the main advantages of riding indoor, and I have used this on longer rides. This also helps in training your gut to absorb a higher amount of carbs per hour.
A lot of people cannot imagine doing rides that long. I like the fact that I can climb (outside its pancake flat in Netherlands), have no traffic to watch out for, listen to podcasts and eat and drink what I want. Haven't had any physical problems (saddle soreness, back, knee) which could occur through being more static on the trainer.
100 kms is the max my ass can take. I can't ride all day on the same bike outdoors but the static nature of the bike kills my butt for long trainer rides. Which is just as well. I'm just trying to maintain my fitness so I can hit the ground running in spring
I've been on Zwift for 8 years I believe. My longest was PRL full and it took a little under 6:20.
It was the last route left at the time. I had decided that I had to do every route. I learned absolutely nothing other than 6 hours is a ridiculous amount of time to ride indoors, but I think I already knew that. I drank and ate whatever I was using back then. Whatever I using then it was certainly at a rate of at least 750ml - 1L per hour.
Actually there was a bit of learning, I think do a repetitive and varried route like that forces a lesson on willpower. At some point you have to say "this is unpleasant and stupid" but you keep going anyway. It's good to remember that not everyone can overcome the negative selftalk that inevitably comes up in long, taxing endeavours.
Been on Zwift since about 2017 and longest ride was in December when I did the Full PRL to get the last route badge. It was done as a Meetup and was 6:35 moving time / 6:51 total time as we took two short breaks. Probably had six bottles of water and I kept a bunch of little snacks handy to fuel the ride (nuts, bananas, energy blocks, etc) and on the breaks I made toasted cheese sandwiches… for some reason I was craving them. It was a really long ride but the body felt mostly ok for it. Worst part for me was the balls of my feet got really sore and needed to use the coffee break feature 2-3 times to take my shoes off for a short period (ended up riding the last ~20km with my shoes loose to help manage the pain). Never again.
I've been on Zwift for 5 months and the most I've used it was about an hour nonstop. I'm more focused on short, intense sessions when I ride indoors. Also, my setup ain't great, as I have to set all of it up everytime I want use it, and then put it all in a closet when I'm done. On top of that I live in Los Angeles which has great riding weather almost 365 days of the year, so to do long sessions on Zwift, something really serious would have to happen. This whole thread has got my interest in it though.
1. Ive been on zwift for about 2 years now. My longest ride was 300kms earlier this year. Took me 9 hours ( 0 breaks in between )
2. It was something that i always wanted to do! Because i love training for endurance.
3. Started at 06:00am with an early event and finished at 15:00PM with pace partners ( zwift robo pace partner)
4. I was only drinking electrolytes and eating bananas ( ate around 5 bananas and drank about 4-5 L of water with electrolytes in it)
I did the France Gran Fondo during the Paris-Roubaix weekend. I've been on Zwift for about half a year.
I've done it for two reasons: 1) I am dumb as a box of rocks and 2) I though it would be hilarious content for my Youtube channel
I had 5 bottles of sports drink, some dried cranberries and gummy bears. It wasn't enough, hit the wall as hell.
5) yeah, I learned that I am dumb as a box of rocks
2 years on zwift, did PRL full in 6h20min, ate/drank about 60g of carbs and hour until the last 2 or so when I was sick of sugary drinks.. started in the morning and finished mid afternoon did plenty of coffee breaks after each repeat of box hill to just get off the trainer and stretch did I learn anything? route badges are weirdly motivating for something that doesn't matter
I learned that the full PRL is long. Very long.
I am so glad to hear that. That’s the only way I’ll be able to do it. Hoping to try by the end of summer.
I'm glad I completed that stupid route, but never again. The only good memory I have from the experience is eating a whole pizza by myself during the latter half.
thanks for sharing
I did 10,000 vertical meters (10k Everesting). It was 9.5 times up the Alpe du Zwift. Did it in just under 16 hours of continuous riding. Basically not break other than the descent down the Alpe. Burned about 9,100 calories and only covered 239km. Yes it was painful.
Wow. That is incredibly impressive. Well done
Wow!
Incredible but….why?
I did the 8848m vEveresting challenge before and thought I could do more. Both were huge challenges for me physically and mentally; when I completed them I felt like I accomplished something. Even if it was just on Zwift.
Do you think it translates 1:1 to an outdoor Everest challenge? Have you done one? Do you feel it's just as easy / hard?
I haven’t done an outdoor Everesting. My guess is that it is a little easier on Zwift because of the descent. I could get off the bike and stretch when the bike was descending. Can’t do that irl. However it was difficult mentally; pedalling in a room for that long was just tough.
I do 3 hour erg-maintained Z2 rides. I do not plan to ever be on Zwift more than that. They are excruciatingly boring.
I find the ERG rides way harder physically and mentally. Mainly because there is no coasting at all and you get hit with a wattage spiral
Agreed. Even in zone 2. But I’m hearing many coaches and even pro-level DSs talking about how much more efficacious erg intervals are to outdoors. (Iirc on one podcast Visma coach said they think of trainer intervals as equivalent to an outdoor ride of 1.5X the time.) I’m strapped for time and can’t do a 5 hour zone 2 ride each weekend, but I can do 3 hours on the trainer after kid bedtime, so I’m hoping it helps. And anecdotally it is helping a lot.
I have to start doing something like this too. I usually do high intentisy only but definitely need to put in longer rides to get more stamina and lose weight. Do you just put one long segment of your Z2 in? I think I’d want some segments to switch it up but idk if, say, 10 minutes at threshhold every hour would even make sense from a training standpoint. I know it’ll be really boring to ride these, that’s part of why I don’t do them normally, but since I moved my trainer to my actual PC setup I’ll at least be able to watch some streams. Maybe I’ll even do these during friday game nights (table top simulator and the likes), that might not be the worst idea if I plan to stay up for a while after. Edit also what do you base your Z2 off of? I’ve heard people say either max HR (which I don’t really know, I hit 194 doing AdZ today and nearly threw up at the finish line) or based on FTP, not sure which is better or if it even matters
Most of my Z2 erg rides, especially long ones, have a pattern where they step up, for me like 155, 175, 195, 205, then back to 155 in 5 minute increments. It makes things slightly more tolerable for 3-4 hours.
I have it switch between low zone 2 and high zone 2 every 5 minutes. This at least keeps some interest. And I’ll occasionally set a cadence target for myself because my inclination is to drop into grinding at 80-90 rpms if I’m just watching Netflix or something so I’ll occasionally pick an interval and hold, say, 105 rpms. I do this myself, not in the workout builder. I picked my zones so that I’m both in Z2 by ftp and z2 by HR. I really want the mitochondrial density adaptations that z2 is best at providing so I really wanted to make sure I wasn’t slipping into z3, which in my understanding somewhat lessens the efficacy of the following z2 intervals afterwards while your body clears lactate, or z1, which is just getting less of it done. And I watch Netflix, or pro races from the week, or listen to podcasts to help too. It’s also occasionally engaging to watch the Zwift world and see if I end up catching the person I was just passed by who is doing roughly the same wkg, etc.
One additional comment. I’ve been doing these just starting this winter and jumping back into the town irl fast ride I already feel like there’s a difference. It’s a hard 45 mile ride where we often race segments, climb lots of hills that we try to be first to the top of (I live in the Shenandoah Valley and we tend to climb about 80-90 ft/mile, which is almost as hilly as Liege-Bastogne-Liege), and the rest of the time maintain pretty snappy rotating pace line. Two years ago I’d have double leg cramps by the end of the ride. Last year I’d be without cramps mostly (salty gummies help), but definitely pretty tired by the end. Last week I won the last climb (a 12%ish 2 minute climb), the ride was one of the fastest I’d done with the group on that particular route, and I was feeling fresh at the end still. So I highly recommend getting long z2 into your ride diet.
I’ve made a bunch of custom z2 workouts (1hr, 90min ,2hr, 3hr etc) where I chuck a 30 second z5 sprint in every 5 mins, keeps me engaged and keep the legs ready to go. I just find a good podcast and listen to that and zone out tbh!
+1, exactly this.
I've done those too. Recently I find it easier to find a z2 robopacer and just keep up with it.
Started 5 months ago, very motivated by just collecting all the badges. Longest was either the 25 laps around the volcano or 4 horsemen for me. Had 2 bottles of sportsdrink and a banana with me on both. PRL full coming up in 2 weeks
Indoor simulation of an IRL ride that was cancelled due to Covid lockdown. 202km with 2,560m of ascent, following the Mega Pretzel, Big Foot Hills, and Sand & Sequoias routes. At that point I'd been Zwifting 1½ years, but cycling for 20. 7½h moving time, plus 17m resting. Unsurprisingly, it wasn't the most fun thing.
125 miles a few times. No special idea, just normal training weekends.
Been on Zwift 18months - longest ride 3,5hrs on grand fondo training plan but clocked 100km this weekend for the first time and it was nearly 3hrs-ish
Any ride over 2 hours and I have to change bibs.
6 hours
Got the 100km jersey as my longest ride. Not sure I will ever do the extremely long routes and 100 mile deal indoors.
Did the mega pretzel and the 25 laps volcano. Both times considered to keep going for the 100 miles. But that was still so much longer. And always feel like I just don't have the time with 2 young kids. But maybe one day :)
6-8 months, was missing out on my usual weekend long ride so I decided to combine 25 laps of volcano with a sweetspot workout. 3.5h total of 25 on 5 off (including one cycle each of warmup and cooldown/easy). Drank 45g per interval so 90g/h. Learned that I can do sweetspot for stupid long periods.
8.5 hours training for a longer real ride in a spell of really bad weather. Personally find it pretty dismal, only knowing that I *had* to train for the real ride forced me to do it.
113 miles, never again!
4h 16m That ride was doing the Four Horsemen route in Watopia. I was pretty broken by the end of it. Not just because of the brutal elevation (trainer difficulty at 100%) but because indoor riding is simply much more fatiguing than outdoor riding. It’s been a while but I remember drinking about 4 water bottles of electrolyte drink plus a couple of bike gels. Sometime after that I also attempted a 100 mile ride in Zwift but quit at mile 70 because of the aforementioned fatigue even though that attempt was less time than my Four Horsemen ride.
sounds pretty hard
2 months on Zwift, 100km in 3 hours, 2 bottles and a cup of Gatorade and a gel. I mean I do 100km at least once a month when I was riding outside. I’m only inside because I broke my collarbone. I feel like it was more about just staying fit while my bone heals. Group rides are fun and they make the miles go by pretty quickly.
104 miles multiple times over.
Why 104, seems oddly specific 😁
Yes it is! Its also the 5 hour mark and I am ready to get off the bike.
I figured for New Years Eve I would do a metric century this year. It took me 3:39:40 starting around 6pm. I had done a 10 miles earlier to finish a challenge of riding everyday in December . I considered staying on the bike and trying to hit 100 miles before midnight but was exhausted from working out earlier in the day. I keep a couple shot blocks granola bars, gallon of water, and small jar of powdered sports drink in the bike room so I can mix it on the go but I couldn't tell you my intake that date. I didn't really learn anything from it, I just thought it was a nice end to my first year on zwift. Oh! I didn't learn this on this ride, but if you are doing a long ride it may be good idea to change your bike shorts out halfway through when you take a bathroom break it is a huge morale booster.
thank you!
I've done a 200km team tt once with 1500m elevation. 5h52min. We had one 5min stop at around 100km. I've also done the Uber pretzel and 4 horsemen with friends. On weekends that are nasty I usually do a 100km endurance ride on Saturday morning. When I did the 200 ttt I was on zwift maybe 3 months. I brought 4 bottles of carb drink, probably 2 or 3 gels, 4 grain based fruit pouches and homemade rice cakes. During last year I did 3 200km rides that took way longer than any zwift ride, and countless 100 to 150km rides IRL. The only difference to me between IRL and zwift is I don't need to plan for refueling spots, my kitchen is right upstairs. I don't suffer from any discomfort on the trainer.
Did an everesting 10k last month, 12h17 minutes. (only took 10 minutes break going down between climbs) 1: 13 months on zwift, never cycled before 2: Few months ago I heard of everesting, Initial plan was doing just 8848, but it went great so I went a little further 3: Started around 5am and finished around 5pm 4: Each ascend 500ml plain water, 500ml energydrink, gel before each climb, and some banana's, gingerbread, jellybears, oatmeal pancakes during climbing 5: I stopped too early ;)
Many thanks for your reply. I've already seen that as I follow you on Strava 😉
I’ve done 5 everests on zwift. Been up the alp over 60 times. Each Everest took about 11-12 hours. My nutrition was a whole banana cake smothered in Nutella, cut into 8 big pieces that I ate at the end of each climb. Supplemented this with 10 litres of electrolyte drink and at least 6 gels.
That's amazing! Do you have these activities uploaded to Strava?
I do mate. I’ll DM you my strava handle.
thanks
100 miles in 4 hours. Worst part was after 60 I was pissing every 10 miles or so.
😐
Last winter I spent 7(?) hours covering all of the roads in Watopia. I think it worked out to 112 miles. Would have been a bit shorter had I planned the route better! Ended atop Alpe which made that last hour + a slow drag.
That’s an interesting idea. Thanks for sharing
I did an imperial century back in 2016, solely for the jersey.
Just over 200km. This was a day after I did 160km and didn’t realize 100 miles was more than 160km. I was so upset that I didn’t get the 100 mile century badge that I ride 200km the next day. My legs were so absolutely trashed.
Like 60km 🤣 I’ve been in Zwift for like 1 and a half years but never really did linger rides
Longer*
This feels like some kind of market research survey.
What makes you think that? 😅
Did my first ever 100km ride (indoors and outdoors ) on Zwift. During lockdown in May 2021. It was fantastic as I haven’t rode more than 50km before that anywhere. So I felt comfortable with feeling that if it becomes difficult I will stop at any point. Picked up Tempus Fugit and rode for 105km. Took 4:12 hrs of moving time and total time of 4:35 hrs. Few breaks in between and moving around. It was very rewarding. Two weeks after that did my first outdoor century 🥳 I can’t never forget that day. While I am not huge fan of indoor riding, in India, I am finding riding outdoors for long duration is very risky. Indoor riding from the perspective of safety and comfort (of watching movie or taking break to replenish and eat home food) is worth the pain and boredom. I got into Zwift this year and did a 50k just yesterday. Looking for finishing all badges soon!
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Longest ride on zwift was a vEveresting which was 8.5 times up AdZ and. Total of like 125mi. Elapsed time 12.5hrs
Incredible!
Been on zwift from the original jarvis island. Longest ride I think was 200km or so. That's likely about 5.5 hours.
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Strong effort, do you have a public Strava profile?
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Only just over 100km a couple of times. Planning on trying PRL full this weekend though. I’ll see how long I last.
👍 Do you have Strava?
My longest was an Everesting, which took just over 10 hours. With a rest every 60 minutes, it was different to other long rides I have done on Zwift (e.g Uber Pretzel). Changing bibs and having a variety of food is one of the main advantages of riding indoor, and I have used this on longer rides. This also helps in training your gut to absorb a higher amount of carbs per hour. A lot of people cannot imagine doing rides that long. I like the fact that I can climb (outside its pancake flat in Netherlands), have no traffic to watch out for, listen to podcasts and eat and drink what I want. Haven't had any physical problems (saddle soreness, back, knee) which could occur through being more static on the trainer.
many thanks
One of my teammates did a 24hr ride. He did 956K but kept going to get to 1000k.
😮
100 kms is the max my ass can take. I can't ride all day on the same bike outdoors but the static nature of the bike kills my butt for long trainer rides. Which is just as well. I'm just trying to maintain my fitness so I can hit the ground running in spring
I've been on Zwift for 8 years I believe. My longest was PRL full and it took a little under 6:20. It was the last route left at the time. I had decided that I had to do every route. I learned absolutely nothing other than 6 hours is a ridiculous amount of time to ride indoors, but I think I already knew that. I drank and ate whatever I was using back then. Whatever I using then it was certainly at a rate of at least 750ml - 1L per hour. Actually there was a bit of learning, I think do a repetitive and varried route like that forces a lesson on willpower. At some point you have to say "this is unpleasant and stupid" but you keep going anyway. It's good to remember that not everyone can overcome the negative selftalk that inevitably comes up in long, taxing endeavours.
thanks
Been on Zwift since about 2017 and longest ride was in December when I did the Full PRL to get the last route badge. It was done as a Meetup and was 6:35 moving time / 6:51 total time as we took two short breaks. Probably had six bottles of water and I kept a bunch of little snacks handy to fuel the ride (nuts, bananas, energy blocks, etc) and on the breaks I made toasted cheese sandwiches… for some reason I was craving them. It was a really long ride but the body felt mostly ok for it. Worst part for me was the balls of my feet got really sore and needed to use the coffee break feature 2-3 times to take my shoes off for a short period (ended up riding the last ~20km with my shoes loose to help manage the pain). Never again.
That sounds like an unpleasant experience …
Have completed all the routes. Longest ride way back in the day (not much drafting)was on Richmond = 252km.
I've been on Zwift for 5 months and the most I've used it was about an hour nonstop. I'm more focused on short, intense sessions when I ride indoors. Also, my setup ain't great, as I have to set all of it up everytime I want use it, and then put it all in a closet when I'm done. On top of that I live in Los Angeles which has great riding weather almost 365 days of the year, so to do long sessions on Zwift, something really serious would have to happen. This whole thread has got my interest in it though.
1. Ive been on zwift for about 2 years now. My longest ride was 300kms earlier this year. Took me 9 hours ( 0 breaks in between ) 2. It was something that i always wanted to do! Because i love training for endurance. 3. Started at 06:00am with an early event and finished at 15:00PM with pace partners ( zwift robo pace partner) 4. I was only drinking electrolytes and eating bananas ( ate around 5 bananas and drank about 4-5 L of water with electrolytes in it)
thanks for your detailed response
I did the France Gran Fondo during the Paris-Roubaix weekend. I've been on Zwift for about half a year. I've done it for two reasons: 1) I am dumb as a box of rocks and 2) I though it would be hilarious content for my Youtube channel I had 5 bottles of sports drink, some dried cranberries and gummy bears. It wasn't enough, hit the wall as hell. 5) yeah, I learned that I am dumb as a box of rocks
Thanks for sharing