Dialed Thursday Evening Zwift Ride

Last one for this trainer season

STARTING TIME
The ride starts promptly at 6:30pm. Try to be logged into Zwift by 6:25pm (Some of us will be logged on early waiting so you can find the starting location). If you are running late, you can choose to ride with anyone actively doing the ride (you do need to be following them on Zwift to have this option) and you will spawn with the group and stay on our route.

JOINING THE RIDE
Join the DIALED Cycling Club on Zwift. Here you can add yourself to the ride so you spawn with everyone else. If you have any issues, please reach out well in advance of the start time.

Link to the Club:
https://www.zwift.com/clubs/ee29d49a-a4e0-405b-8716-b979987980c3/join

Link to the ride:
https://www.zwift.com/events/view/4298119

ZWIFT ROUTE FOR THIS RIDE
Watopia is the scheduled venue and the ride will be doing 1 lap of the "Bigger Loop" route.

PACE & ROUTE INFO
We will warm up at a pace under 2.0w/kg for the first 10 minutes. The pace will then be between 2.7 and 3.2 w/kg on the flat sections and 3.5 and 4.2 w/kg on the climbs. The last 6 miles is hot section.The total distance is 33 miles & roughly 2200' of EG - plus what you accumulate for the cool down portion.

*****Thursday Ride Rule******** - No power ups during the hot section which means you will have to attack the hard way or to catch up to a group or another rider to be in the draft, just like in the Flogging

**NOTE - If you generally have a hard time holding on to the group, feel free to lower your weight setting on Zwift. As you get stronger and develop more fitness over the weeks, you can slowly increase your weight setting so the rides remain challenging.

COMMUNICATION
Please use the Discord app so you can talk with everyone. It makes the ride so much more interactive, fun, and informative! See details below.

**DISCORD INFO - PLEASE READ IF YOU'RE NEW**

SETUP A DISCORD ACCOUNT - IT'S FREE
Our Discord server is set up so we can all talk to each other during the ride - it works awesome! You can use their desktop app, web browser, or phone app to log in... gotta love all the choices! Here is the link you'll need to join the room:

https://discord.gg/Y6bZAcF

VOICE CHANNEL - ZWIFT
**Once on the Dialed Cycling server, BE SURE TO CLICK ON THE "Zwift" VOICE CHANNEL. If you do not add yourself here, you will not hear the conversation and could miss out on some pertinent information during the ride. Also, turn off the mute button so we can hear you. :)

**PUSH TO TALK - ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A LOUD TRAINER**
If you have a LOUD trainer or expect a lot of background noise, please use "Push to Talk." Loud channels will be muted out of respect to everyone using Discord, but we will give you a heads up first. Here are the instructions: https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/209813978-How-do-I-enable-disable-Push-to-talk-activation-noise-

DISCORD BASICS
New to Discord? I suggest watching this brief video posted by Team ODZ if you want a quick run through on setting up Discord: http://www.teamodz.com/discord/

**OTHER INFO**

CONTACT INFO
Feel free to contact us if you need help: info@dialedcycling.com

SLACK
You can also join the Dialed Cycling Slack to get even more connected to the cycling community and so you can contact us directly. Follow this link to start the process:
https://dialedcyclinglab.com/join-dialed-on-slack/

WAHOO KICKR & TACX PRODUCTS
Dialed Cycling is setup with Wahoo and Tacx if you need help with a trainer... Wahoo and Tacx (Garmin) takes really good care of us, so we can pass this savings on to you! Contact us if you'd like more information: info@dialedcycling.com

FEEDBACK IS ALWAYS WELCOME
If you have any feedback on how to make this a smoother process, please do use the comments section to chime in!

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• David B
  Organizer
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