I am not sure if this is a silly question or not but I just started with Zwift and the first ride I did was mend and than I did Sand and Sequoias and it was rated a 2/5 and not much climbing it seemed so I thought be not bad.
I am just getting back into cycling and now I think about 160 ftp but yesterday when I did the ride with my computrainer my first reaction when the resistance is increasing is pedal harder but is that how you are suppose to handle it meaning if the course makes the watts 230 but I can not do it can I put out less in a lower gear and still be moving? I am puzzled how it emulates the course, is it simply watts go up and down on the controller or is it more? I mean outdoors I can put out as little watts as I can and still be moving with different gears. I hope I am explaining myself right.
I ask today cause I definitely went too hard and worried if I keep doing courses can I just go at the intensity I want or will it simply just stop me from pedalling.
Again hope I am making sense here but I love the software just wonder since I am so low level should I just keep doing manual on the computrainer till I reach certain level.
Hi @John_Sirabella and welcome to the forums.
Sounds like you might be doing a workout, is that right? When in a workout there will be specific watt (power) targets as you described.
You can also just choose a world and route and “free ride”, when free riding there are no power requirements and you can go as hard or as easy as you want. The trainer should increase resistance as you go up hill as it would in real life.
I have been in Watopia the last three rides and today I believe I see what it does which is pretty remarkable.
My issue right now is I use my computrainer with a dongle and for the last two rides as soon as I am getting my sweat on, power source lost. The only way it finds it again is by restarting zwift. I love the software but starting to get frustrating as I really do not want to start buy all new stuff to accommodate.
I’m not very familiar with the computrainer, does it connect via ANT+ FEC? Do you have a USB extension cable for the dongle so it is very close to the trainer? If not, I would suggest that to help reduce any signal interference. You can also run a log file through zwiftalizer.com to get more details on signal issues.
I will see about the log file and yes computrainers are ancient history, they were the thing for watts training long time ago till they went under.