Forgot to comment - love this picture!Yesterday was a particularly leg burning day; Team Scream (awesome new TTT video on Sufferfest) plus the goddawful Half is Easy.
I have never wanted to do TTT as much as after that video though. Loved it.
The support helped.
Can totally relate - there's many times I'm turbo'ing weekend mornings and the other half and my little guy come to see me on their way back from walking the dog. Most of the time my guy is on his trike (which he loves) - so won't be long until he's riding around! (or on Zwift next to me!?)
Good stuff - you should be spoilt for choice then.
Really not much new in the trainer space this season, just rehashed/re-releases (the Kickr Core the only new trainer of note). Not sure what we'll see in 2019/20. Probably nothing new from Wahoo or Tacx anyway - except the 'trainer bike' releases as I think that will be the market they're concentrating on.
Great result and glad you like it - although 'lovely' is not one of the words I would describe the feeling when hitting a large gradient with it on Zwift for the first time. That power ramp is BRUTAL! I'd got far too used to the slow power curve of my Vortex so had my trainer difficulty ramped right up, the first couple of times it felt like a hitting a wall! Brutal! Dropped resistance back down to the 'usual' (Zwift default) of 50% and am back up to around 75/80% now for racing (generally leave it set there as I don't free ride hills for recovery & have enough gears on the bike for easy pedalling).What a difference. Tis lovely plus Evans have me a heafty discount for coming back 3 times and all the bother.
Excuse the filthy battered bike.
Never apologise for the dirty bike, especially a Crux! They should be dirty!
They're a very solid unit, you won't have any build issues, but if your peak power and kicks are that big (1000W+) you'll get lots of wheel slip. May not be an issue for you as general riding around Zwift you won't be peaking like that, but intervals in a training session you may. I would still get some slip on my Vortex when sprinting at 800w. Ramping up rather than kicking solves it.
Horses for courses! I found TR 'boring' specifically because of that, there was no distraction and no immersion. I could do the sessions but really didn't enjoy them, so didn't 'want' to ride them.
For me 'Sufferfest' is very much the traditional way they started - immersive great videos to really make you dig deep suffering harder than you would without. Without that, TR is a better platform. They're closing the gap now, but personally I feel they should continue to concentrate on more of the earlier content - as that's what made them different. Drive their own niche in the market and make it grow. Some of my earlier highest HR's are from Sufferfest (saw over 200bpm, once!) and only recently has my Zwift racing sprinting got my HR to the same levels (190bpm+).
What's everyone's plans now TdZ is over? I found it a great way to kick myself back into some kinda fitness so really need to continue that. So for me that's 2 Zwift races per week, minimum!
Although may go easier this week as got a bit of a bout of 'not feeling 100%'. Hope it's just a bit of left over from the cold weather and recovery from big increase in training load. Might get to do the club ride on saturday too - if the weather gods deem me worthy!
I was dying yesterday and hoped to feel OK today but I am still suffering and no way I could manage it this evening. 
