The Rundown: Returning guest Dylan Wiggins joins the guys for a winter episode that runs from Zwift hacks to honest parenting talk. There is a long, very funny tangent about whether you could spoof power data in a race, a real look at the TrainerRoad to Zwift winter grind, and a genuinely useful EPO Chain Mail topic on staying fit as a busy parent. Lance is one sleep away from flying to Tenerife.
What Happened on Dialed Podcast 356?
Winter indoor training, the great ANT data spoofing debate, and hard won wisdom on balancing cycling with a newborn, a job, and family life.
Backpedal: The Dialed 100 and Zwift Season
Everyone is deep in the Dialed 100 challenge, logging at least an hour a day, mostly on Zwift. Matt is grinding out the minimum to keep his streak alive, Dylan jumped from TrainerRoad to Zwift for the winter after getting tired of endless sweet spot, and the crew debated the coffee stop mechanic and why the platform rewards staying with a group. The honest takeaway is that indoor watts and outdoor watts live in two different worlds, and that is okay.
The Great ANT Data Heist
The episode spirals into a brilliant thought experiment on spoofing power data. Matt lays out a man in the middle attack that doubles your broadcast wattage, while Dylan admits he once built hardware to snoop ANT signals and rebroadcast junk to scramble a whole pack's numbers. It is all framed as a joke, with a recurring punchline of wait, is this a felony, but it doubles as a real look at why ANT Plus is winding down and secure Bluetooth is taking over.
Dylan's Train Wreck Report
Dylan came in with a meniscus issue from futsal, the latest in a run of calf and shoulder problems, and the good news is that cycling does not aggravate it at all. He also plugged his Cwapface2 YouTube channel and a short, very stupid, very funny gym video filmed at Endurance PDX, the kind of clip you can pause on any frame and ask what is happening here. Lance gave it a full multi part review on air.
EPO Chain Mail: Fitness With a Newborn
Two listener questions anchored the main topic: how to keep some fitness with a newborn, and how four busy dads balance family with training. The consensus is honest. In the newborn phase all bets are off, so recalibrate, take the small wins, and let training slide. A trainer in the house is the single best tool because weather and daylight stop mattering, and even fifteen quiet minutes counts. Communication with your partner, getting buy in before a big goal, and never missing your kid's events are the real keys.
Optimize Everywhere
The guys piled on practical hacks: run or ride laps while the kids are at practice, commute by bike, pull a kid trailer for built in resistance and partner brownie points, and split a three hour ride into three one hour blocks across the day. A coach or a smart training plan keeps limited time focused on what matters most, and Dylan's ten year old getting hooked on Zwift with a single speed cog was a reminder that the bug gets passed down.
One Last Thing
Jake closed with the news that the lab is moving, one suite over, roughly doubling the square footage. The raw concrete space will get a much larger service area, high ceilings, custom lighting, and a dedicated content studio always ready to roll, with a build out timeline of about three months. Lance signed off heading for Tenerife, and the world cyclocross championships were on deck.
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