Join us for Riverside's Virtual Monday Night Ride #6 (11/3)

[David Berlind]

Hey all,

OK, so it's dark at 5pm. But guess what? The sun never sets in Watopia! Please join us tomorrow, Monday, 11/3 at 6pm on Zwift for the Riverside Cycles Virtual Monday Night Ride (vMNR). This is a no-drop virtual ride which means Zwift will keep the group together regardless of how fast you ride (you just have to keep pedaling). In other words, no pressure to perform!

Ride Details

* 1 lap on the Watopia's Waisted 8 route (~19.1 miles, 472 ft climbing)

* The rubber band will be on and so it's a no-drop ride. In other words, RIDE AT YOUR OWN PACE (as long as you keep pedaling, you'll stay with the other riders no matter how hard they're going)

* Late Join is enabled which means you can join up to 30 minutes late

* Voice communications between riders will be on Discord (read the section below on how to use Discord during one of our virtual rides)

Contact David Berlind at da...@berlind.org if you have questions or need technical support.

Use this link to invite your friends to this event (works for anyone on the planet, 

member or not): https://www.zwift.com/events/view/5182687

The rest of this email is a cut n paste for anybody who needs more guidance 

on how to join one of the Riverside Virtual Rides. 

How to Join this and Other Riverside Rides

To join, you will need to join RiversideCycle Club in the Zwift Companion app. The Zwift companion app is different from the main Zwift application and is available in Apple and Google's app store. But you sign-in to it with the same credentials that you use for the main Zwift app. Once you've loaded and signed-into the Zwift companion app, go to the main menu, tap on Clubs, and then tap on the "All Clubs" tab as shown in the partial screenshot below:

Start typing Riverside into the box that says "Search clubs by name" and tap on the listing that appears named "RIVERSIDECYCLE" (see partial screenshot below):

Tap and join the club. Once you have joined the club, go into the club page and scroll down for a list of club Events where you can select and join this week’s TNR or any other events (see screenshot below)

Tap on the event to open the event page and then tap on the orange plus sign icon (see screenshot below)

Why do this? For three reasons. First, this will cause the event to appear in the Events Section of the main Zwift app's course selection page (it usually appears about 1 hour before the event starts). Second, you will get smart phone and email reminders that the event is coming up soon. Third, if you are warming up on another course prior to the start of the event, Zwift will show you a special button (about 10 minutes prior to the start of the event) that will switch you directly from your warmup session directly into the event. This way, you don't have to manually navigate out of one Zwift session and into another. 

There is a Voice Party Line for this Ride

We will use Discord for Group Voice chat during the ride. If you do not already have Discord on your mobile device or computer (whichever you prefer to use for Discord), you will need to install it first if you want to join the conversation during the ride.  The event page has two very helpful links right above the map (see screenshot below). When clicked, the one on the left side ("Discord") will whisk you directly into the Riverside Voice Chat on Discord. The one on the right offers helpful Discord tips and tricks.

If you somehow end up on the Riverside Discord Server but you don't think you're in the voice chat, tap or click on "zwift group rides" under the "Voice Channels" section in the Riverside Discord Server (see screenshot below). Please remember to hang-up once you're done with the voice channel! 

Pre-Ride Warmup

It is strongly suggested that you do a pre-ride warm up, even if only for 10 minutes, on one of the other Zwift courses just to get your legs nice and warm. Joining the ride with your cardiovascular system and legs already primed always helps. 

On Zwift's course selection page, there's a tile for each course showing details like elevation change and the robopacer's name. In case you didn't already know this, the robopacer's name also determines the robopacer's speed. A ride with Bernie as the robopacer is a good choice for your warmup to the Virtual MNR. If you want to go faster than Bernie, you always can. 

Here's a handy dandy chart that shows you their speeds in watts per kg:

Taylor – 1.1 W/kg (82W)
Bernie – 1.5 W/kg (112W)
Miguel – 1.8 W/kg (134W)
Maria – 2.2 W/kg (165W)
Coco – 2.6 W/kg (194W)
Yumi – 2.9 W/kg (217W)
Jacques – 3.2 W/kg (240W)
Genie – 3.7 W/kg (276W)
Constance – 4.2 W/kg (315W)

Hope to see you there! 

David