Indoor Cycle Training

Indoor Cycle Training and Racing

Throughout the year, but particularly in the winter months the club hold various training sessions based on the Zwift Online Cycling app. The regular events are the Thursday Team Time Trials (8am or 6:30pm) and the Team Time Trial recce that is held at 6:30pm every Tuesday. The Tuesday ride is "banded" such that all riders will stay together on the screen as a single bunch irrelevant of power output. For more information about the Team Time Trials, visit this page. On cold weekends through the winter, rather than risk the ice we often hold adhoc Zwift rides on a Sunday morning, keep an eye out for these either on our Facebook page or within our WhatsApp group.

For the sessions we always us the 'Discord'* service to communicate, using our standard phone earbuds, headphones to chat with the other riders.

Please join the East Essex Tri Club club within the Zwift Companion app to ensure that any group rides we set up are available within your events list. 

Not using Zwift?

No problem, you can still join the Discord service on a Tuesday (and Sundays) to chat with others and share the pain while riding on your own platform in your own home. 

What else do you need?

• For a basic session you just need an exercise bike or a bike mounted on a turbo trainer (also known as a dumb trainer). 
• As mentioned, most on the call will be using the Online cycling tool Zwift although you can just ride along on your own trainer and enjoy the chat. Zwift is a great online cycling game where you can see your own avatar on a bike alongside all the others who you are riding with. You can use this wth an exercise bike or dumb trainer providing its sensors can send speed or power information to your computer (tablet or smartphone) using Bluetooth or ANT+.
• For the fully immersive experience you will want a Smart Trainer; this will not only connect to your computer to send speed/power information it will also receive instructions from Zwift about when to increase/reduce resistance to mimic the impact of climbs

For more information email Richard