The Indoor Riding/ Zwift/ TrainerRoad etc. Thread

[UTmaniac]

I'm starting to think tht doing my workouts in the evenings really isn't great. I felt worse today after a 1.5 hour Z2 ride than I did after a steady state session which should be far more taxing but I did the steady state in the middle of the day rather than finishing the Z2 about 21:45.

Anything but z1/2 in the evening has always risked me not sleeping well, but sometimes I would do them anyway, because I'd failed to do them earlier.

In recent ish months, I noticed that my performance in the zone 1 Zwift Insider Tiny Races (when I actually made them!) were awful compared to zone 2. I've even done a few zone 3 since the clocks went back, so they started at 2100 GMT and I could just squeeze them in before my better half's bedtime, but they've not affected my sleep much as my sleep pattern is already bad... Going to bed before nidnight is a rarity at the mo, typically 0130, has been as late as the odd 0430!

 

[AndyCr15]

I didn't find the Whoop that accurate - similar to Shadowness - just no peaks when I did short efforts. Either a limit of the optical on the extremity of the body, or some kinda smoothing they do... Or me not wanting it tight?!

I was wondering if me wearing it high on the bicep helps? As said, I wore and recorded both for a while and they were very similar.