Season 8 of the Dialed Tuesday Night Virtual rides – Ride #1 of 20
**DETAILS**
STARTING TIME
The ride starts promptly at 6:30pm, but the ride will allow for anyone who has RSVP’d on Zwift to join the ride up to 30 minutes after the start.
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:
Dialed Cycling on Zwift
https://www.zwift.com/clubs/ee29d49a-a4e0-405b-8716-b979987980c3/join
Link to the ride:
https://www.zwift.com/events/view/4600060
ZWIFT ROUTE FOR THIS RIDE
Watopia is the scheduled venue and will be doing 1 lap of the “Watopia’s Waistband” 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 roughly 2.3 to 2.8 w/kg on the flat sections and 3-4 w/kg on the climbs. We will be doing 2 laps, and hot section be the last 3 miles. The total distance is 33.1 miles & roughly 643′ of EG – plus what you accumulate for the cool down portion.
**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:
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.
DISCORD BASICS
New to Discord? Here is a quick run through on setting up Discord:
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045138571-Beginner-s-Guide-to-Discord
**OTHER INFO**
CONTACT INFO
Feel free to contact us if you need help:
in**@di***********.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:
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:
in**@di***********.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!