I ONLY ride indoors - then tried a REAL RACE | Zwift to reality
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2021
- All my cycling has been indoors, on a Wahoo Kickr on Zwift, so I wanted to see if I could use that fitness and ride outside...in a race!
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As a Zwift fan boy, it's nice to know I can pop outside and not fall off 🤣 Hope you enjoy this one 👍
Great job! Anyone that says zwift wont make you a great cyclist, hasn’t used zwift enough. Obviously there are road specific skills that you cant learn on zwift, but overall its huge.
Whatever the outcome (and I'm still watching) love your SOH
Haha isn't falling off what would happen in CX or a technical course
Oh I also ya can't phase through people. Be careful drafting
zwift runner only now and as a retired overweight former elite runner training at home these days, it does work as I too improved from my retired weight and my running power which then translated to my vets 10k runs.
zwift works great for those who like a focal rival to set training and racing like myself. running outside is great but without training partners and rivals it can make you slack. before zwift I would go out on same 10k run at same pace, while now my pace on zwift runs are subject to session and partners.
The commentary is hilarious. "I can't kick him out till he's 18. The laws in this country are a joke." You take the haters comments with much aplomb. Kudos on the race!
Yep! Me and the missus sat here smiling, brilliant entertainer👌🏽
Thatcher's Britain, mate!
Congratulations on this fantastic ride Mark! We love to see this analysis and it's great that your Zwifting transitioned into a great IRL performance! We look forward to seeing how you go next time. Ride On!
Thanks Zwift. 😁
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To the haters, I would point out that I don’t recall you ever being anything but perfectly honest about your cycling ability. That being said, I don’t know if the purist in me can allow you to call that two-wheel Batmobile you’re kicking around on a bicycle. 😉 Jokes aside, great to see you enjoying your bike!
Now off to see if anyone sells a BatMan tri suit 😁
@@MarkLewisfitness Don't forget to repaint the frame in matt black!
@@triathlonsushi Don't tempt me with stuff like that. Winter evenings with nothing to do........🤣
@@MarkLewisfitness First, just strip the paint and leave the raw carbon fiber showing.
Second, I don't know about over there but US Triathlon rules prohibit drafting, so anyone saying that isn't a "real bike race" should say that after doing an Ironman.
@@MarkLewisfitness - don't get the cape with it - I tried it and it will only slow you down!
Just a tip, coming to the end of the bike, for the last 2km raise your cadence. Above 90. You cadence on a run is significantly higher than cycling, so by raising your cadence it helps te alleviate that heavy feel in your legs with the run post cycle.
Good tip-going to use this in the future
Well done, entertaining as ever. I am in the camp that Zwift supplements my riding and allows me do training when the weather is crap or can’t always get out. I did a 70 mile sportive last week in Surrey/Kent. Did really welly smashed all the climbs and really think all of my Zwift riding helped over the last 18 months. Noticed the same with my mountain bike, love riding outdoors still but feel that Zwift has toughened me up a lot
Was that the 170km one?
The erg prescribed training programs are top shelf except for the “erg death spiral”!
Find your local cycling club, enter some time trials and make the club ‘10’ your go to session for the week. It will make you a better rider for little outlay or effort. Then run off the back of them. Full beast mode.
Yep - I found one! Although noting till spring now ☹️
True dat. Good comment
I concur, you should enter some TT races, I think you will be competitive.
Most def - they're addictive. Though if you're like me, after a few weeks envying other rider's setups, your bank account may be lighter to the tune of a disk wheel, pointy helmet, ribbed body stocking, ...
TTs are not the same as road racing or even riding in a fast club ride. When tactics are involved and you have racers fighting for position, using tactics....and then it all becomes incredibly real the first time you go through a corner at full tilt and you have riders on your left and/or right, front and rear. Your nerves are instant undone and you want nothing else but to slow down.e
Zwift vs a spin bike is a completely different experience. My wife did peloton for quite some time and has done quite a few triathlons using it as her indoor trainer. When we upgraded to Zwift for her indoor training she immediately saw a huge improvement in cycle times. The Peloton just doesnt correlate to actual bike position for outdoor road racing.
Great content Mark!
Thanks to you, I ran my first 10k without stopping, when like 2 months ago I could barely run 200 meters.
Awesome work! I love these stories! And once you can do 10k, how far you go next is up to you. After a while, it's all just "more running" 😁
@@MarkLewisfitness Now, it's time to get better with my bike.
Unfortunatly though, in Portugal, there aren't many races I can enter besides just running.
@@MICROVOLTS43ver you have a few awesome granfondos to do on the bike, there are also some triathlons and biathlons, not much obviously but still some that could help you having quite a nice season
@@ldduke aren't they mostly BTT?
Amazing achievement, keep at it, you can only get better!
Hah great race report! As a more experienced triathlete, I can give you a few surefire tips - with just more run practice, you'll run really well both before and after the bike. And transitions will improve from 2 minutes to
My friend put this bike together for his son and before I knew it he was done ruclips.net/user/postUgkxHL1v1R3NE5x4KiYfyt8dnQmyNYz7qi5L When the son came to put it together he was surprised to see it was already done. All he had to do was take the bike to get air and be on his way. My friend did not have any major problems putting this bike together; small issue was putting one of the brakes on straight; however when the son got home he was able to fix it. The bike rides well gears move correctly; good bike for the price. Wrote review after the son took the bike. Sorry.
Fantastic effort Mark, I’ve been riding the bike for over 40 years and doubt that I’ve ever got anywhere near that average speed when riding solo. Hope your next event is even better.
Great video Mark , good to see all the Zwift training paying off ! I think you have nailed the right balance of funny , entertaining and informative to get a huge following !
I my defence, I was a very avid cyclist for many years until about 2016 where I changed over to ultra marathons (100 miler runs etc). My cycling went down to maybe 10 rides a year for the last 5 years. In July 2021, I joined a coach who put me on Zwift for the first time in my life. I rode Zwift maybe 3 or 4 times a week using structured workouts, and did ONE outdoor 95km cycle. Two months pass... I line up at a MTB race (which I have won in the past a few times dating back to 2010), and pulled out a podium in 3rd place from a field stacked with guys in their early 20s (I'm 42) and haven't done a MTB race in years. So yeah, Zwift CAN indeed get you into good cycling shape. Love the content Mark, I relate to lots of your vids.
I'm not even into cycling (more into running) but this video is a prime example of why I love this channel. It's clever and I love the side comments (rude mum commenting, kid laws in the UK, etc). Keep it up!
Zwift is an incredible training tool not only because you have all the numbers and stats in front of you but also because it pushes you way harder that when you're riding outside. I am 100% sure that any cyclist can only improve when alternating between training indoors and outdoors.
I just think the game looks fun because you race with ppl
Another great video Mark, you're smashing it! The bike/run feeling is also due to the cadence of your legs. When you start to run it feels slow because your cadence is slow, but when you look at your watch you usually realise you're going faster than you should be! The feeling will definitely improve the more you do it. Keep up the great work.
First time viewer. Great content and you are an amazing story teller! I have a spin bike and road bike. It was 3:30 AM when I finished my spin this morning. Your video came up below the spin routine I follow on RUclips. Glad it did! You're awesome!
Many thanks - I do try and make it watchable. No story to tell.....who's gonna stick around 👍👍
Loved, the humour and humility - great work bud. I have been an outdoor gravel type track rider for 10 years but my riding buddy has moved to Tasmania. So I got the Kickr and Zwift and have been riding hard. The buddy came back for a week and we did our normal rude. Real world riding felt easier than zwift lol. Granted the buddy had not ridden since he left but I felt so much stronger with more power than in previous sessions. Love Zwift. Love the outdoors also.
Almost the weekend, new video drop and its an unexpected bonus seeing it as some actual outside cycling - nice change of pace on the content, and great commentary - thanks!
I subbed. Love that you are human and make mistakes and are proud to show us the bloopers as highlights and dont leave anything out to try and keep a clean perfect image. Keep em comin! More power.
I don’t have any interest in bike races, but your entertaining presentations always have me captivated. Good job, Sir!
the quality of this video is insane, from the great commentary to the detail of putting conversion of units. You make me wanna get back into cycling and triathlons haha. Cheers!
Stumbled across this video looking for something else and I totally loved it. Honest and direct. Awesome!
Great results and good to see the indoor bike training actually transfers very well! Funny vid too - nice one 👌
Great job on the race and the content, enjoyed feeling your enthusiasm! Good luck on the Super Sprint in Beast Mode!
Nice work! One suggestion for run off the bike: for the last couple of mins on the bike keep your cadence at ~100RPM. Using higher turnover it will feel easier for the legs. Exxited for the next race in November!
Noted 👍🏼
Love love LOVE the content; free flowing and no nonsense!
Well done. Loved your mom's comment...
that bike is the delorean of bikes!!! very futuristic. “where we’re going, we don’t need roads” -Doc
Very well done, looking forward to hearing how the 2nd race goes :)
Nicely done, especially the cycling. You’ve already identified the areas for improvement. Zwift is excellent for improving your cycling because it allows you to be consistent year round and you can do interval training safely.
Empty parking lots. Help mitigate the traffic risks for interval training. There are so many of those in America it’s crazy.
Brilliant video Mark! One of my favourites!! 💪🏼💪🏼
Great content! As a beginner I found it helpful volunteering for these events and watching everyone has helped me gain insight on how I can do things on race day.
Having done duathlons, I will say that going from running to cycling is a great way to understand how far you have come with your cycling development especially in regards to your pedal stroke (Good = legs feel strong, quads don't blow up, Bad= there's a new clip of you falling off your bike) #spinclasswarrior. Your description of the 1st K after the cycling is SOOOOO accurate #drunktoddlerrunning . Good stuff
Brilliant, the transition having only got into cycling last year and trying a duathlon is a lesson in itself!
Haters will always be haters. They’re just mad cause they’ve been riding for 10+ years and have half your FTP. They’re the folks who label their weekend strava group rides “easy ride” while actually trying to race everyone in the group and have no idea what an actual zone 2 ride is. Keep smashing it man!
Just found this channel browsing for F7/Epix comparisons and I just wanted to tell you that your videos are really quite terrific. Laughed out loud a couple of times. Good job!
Thanks for your informative videos I find them entertaining as well as inspiring. At the age of 66 I am setting up my Zwift account and starting to train to be "better than average" in my age group. I plan to use training and the attrition of men my age to create a winning statistic .
Mostly training
Love it and I can't wait to see your Super Sprint. I always thought because I do longer distances that I could crush a sprint, but I'm nervous a sprint might crush me, as I feel I'd try to push a pace I just can't sustain. I'll let your race be my test case :)
Thanks for this video. I was thinking about signing up for a duathlon next year. I am primarily a cyclist and so I have been trying to run more (outside and on Zwift).
Great effort Mark , and good results! In a future video It would also be interesting to see your normalized power compared to your average power and see how consistent you were in your effort.
First time viewer. Great content and you are an amazing story teller! I have a spin bike and road bike. It was 3:30 AM when I finished my spin this morning. Your video came up below the spin routine I follow on RUclips. Glad it did! You're awesome!
10 friends short of a spin class🤣😂
Classic!
Awesome content, Mark. Loved it all the way..🎉
Love your videos, there's the transient comic humor about it but also really objective.
Good job.
Congratulations Mark. A lot of the top time trialists do the bulk of their work indoors on the turbo these days and you are obviously on the right track. You probably just need one ride outside per week so that you feel more comfortable and get better used to your position on the bike (and your perfect your ability to actually see here you are going!) I too recommend finding a local cycling club that runs weekly time trials through the summer and hitting those 10’s, by doing this regularly my speed has increased significantly. Good luck on the 13th.
I keep hearing this-definitely going to check it out in the spring. It seems they don't do much over the winter, obviously.
As someone who is new to cycling both indoor and outdoor, as I'm looking to do my first Triathlon when Covid allows. This video is really helpful and highlights areas that I need to practice. Thanks
love the honest. no bullshit commentry.liked and subscribed
Great job Mark, inspirational stuff!
Awesome work!! Loved the vid, super entertaining, thanks for sharing. Congrats on the performance too!
Fair play Mark! The most important thing is that you enjoying it. Look like you have a lot of fun. You are very inspiring. Keep up the good work! 👍👍👍💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🥇🥇🥇🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Great work, glad you enjoyed it! Love the zwift content but as both an indoor and outdoor rider I’m interested to see you apply your perspective to the world of outdoor riding.
Mark, I'm really glad I found your channel. You are very funny and informative. Thanks for the information and content. (from across the pond).
Nicely done!! and good luck with the next race!
This was a great video!
Thanks for posting
Helpful and had me laughing! That was a great bit. Congrats on a good ride. FWIW...I trained exclusively indoors for my first 2 years of triathlon because of our work schedules and being home to take care of 4 kids while my wife worked nights as a nurse. All of those rides ending at midnight beat the heck out of not riding at all!!
first video I've watched of yours, instant subscribe and like. Congrats on the race Mark.
Nice mate ! Keep on pushing on ! F* those negative comments. you’re an inspiration to us trying to achieve a better version of ourselves. All the best on your next race 💪🏻!
I love this! Also in the states only time we hear your cool accent is a Guy Ritchie movie. Haha! Keep inspiring people!
Some people will always find something to blab about. Please, keep doing what you are doing. You are actually an inspiration to many people out here, including me. Thank you, Mark! 👍
Great job Mark! Video always entertaining as usual.
I would get a gravel bike for the winter. The trails you run on are perfect & will give you a big amount of confidence in bike handling, whilst getting off the roads. Also lovely rides in nature. See you in Hamburg next year 😉
I appreciate the US conversions! I'm really enjoying poking around your channel, I'm surprised it took you this long to do a multi-sport!
Mark, I love the fine humor in your videos!
This is a such a nice video. I liked how you edited, it feels just like a story! Good job man
Man i was waiting for this kind of content. Will watch it now!
First video of yours I have seen and I love it! Hilarious, humble and hardcore - not a mix you come across often! Awesome
Thanks!
The thing is Mark, it doesn't matter what other people think. You're doing far more than the average negative commenter, pluralism is good but most of the negative comments are from armchair generals who watch the tour and critique pro riders without having ever ridden a fair distance themselves.
I tell people i do 95% of my distance indoor and all my structured training on zwift and they look at me like I'm a clown but when i make top 5 on a segment and they are way down the list or i produce exceptional power on road rides outdoors and I tell them its strava power not an uncalibrated power meter all of a sudden I don't get invited on group rides anymore. They don't understand what zwift really is and what you can achieve when you know how to make the most of it.
Zwift is a great tool, because it offers repeatable training conditions with great measurement and data precision in a safe environment. I ride by myself outdoor mostly because no one wants to ride with me anymore and thats ok, i'm a MTB'er anyway and there aren't many people who want to ride 80km + offroad to begin with which is fair enough, i wouldn't want to be in the company of anybody who wasn't up tobthe challenge of testing themselves anyway.
Don't let anyone ever cast doubt on your achievements and your ability. You're a savage and multi talented individual.
Great style of video, loved it!
Another great video Mark and an awesome result. I did the same course as part of the olympic triathlon earlier in the year and loved it. Dorney is an amazing venue and I’ll definitely be back for more next year.
Oh man, I just stumbled across this video. As a long time road biker, and a spin-class hater, I gotta say you're great. Your comment about Nature ripping off Zwift put me on the floor. And you got a great lesson out of it too! Keep going outside and try out drafting with a group. It's like a ballet with gears. And as big as you are EVERYBODY is gonna want to ride with you on windy days. Cheers!!
I spent years with a monkey on my back... Never a dog though! Lol I love your content man! Truly inspirational! Subscribed and can't wait to see you progression. I just started 2 months ago and it's motivational seeing your process and results!
Thoroughly enjoyed, love the content. Looking forward to your BEAST mode November results. Nothing less than top 10! 😉
Really like your content! Always fun watching your videos
Great storytelling, hats off for a great improvised race !
I don't do Swift but I do spend most of my cycling time these days on my turbo doing GCN sessions.
This year I have cycled 7,000 kilometres of which 5,000 have been on the turbo & 2,000 on the road including an 800 km 6 day ride across Italy.
My road bike is now hanging up on the wall until the end of March 2022 when it will be coming down to prepare for a 6 day tour of the Sierras in Spain!
Great video and happy turboing on Swift or otherwise! 😊
I find your videos incredibly inspirational. I’m pretty sure you don’t give a stuff about the negative comments! Almost all of them will be nowhere near as fit as you! Keep the excellent content coming!
Negative comments are actually useful! a) it's always worth hearing them in case they have a point and b) when they are rubbish I get to make a video off the back of them 😆
Thanks for postin this inspirational video. I'm a "returning" rider who was a runner but who now has tricky knees that make running a day-to-day crap shoot. Next month I'll be 62. I am just getting my Zwift setup completed, but my road bikes are up and running. All I want to do is increase my fitness level, drop a few lbs, and have fun. Zwift will not be my primary means of accomplishing that; it's bad weather fallback that I will do because I can.
great vid mate, keep up the work.
Honestly laughed the entire way through - great video!!!
Great video Mark, loving the recaps.
When you can, try a road race! You'll find it enormous fun. No transitions. But you have to watch yourself, and all the other people around you! Well done on the TT part.
Great little vid mark, just come across you while looking at tri and cycle stuff on utube and great to see another person that does nearly all the training on zwift 😄
Going outdoors and picking a duathlon is a big well done over just a cycle race as there so tough on the legs if not adjusted to run off the bike, think most triathletes at the start have bad legs at start of final run and the transition is a big part of a good race day and love your honest approach to taking this on, brings back some great memories when I started tri and duathlon racing as a newbie, 10’years ago 🤩
The buzz of a race brings and the fun factor which comes over really well in your vid
It just proves really if you do the training be indoors or outdoors will bring benefits for hobbies and fitness 🏊🏻♂️ 🚴♂️ 🏃♂️ 😁
As someone who has raced for over 20yrs I think you did an awesome job and like anything the more you do the better you'll get and as you do get slicker races can be lost in transition but great job
Thoroughly enjoyable video. Bike to run transition always reminds me of those thumb push puppets.
This was a really really good race review video. Your getting me want to get a new bike again.
Enjoying your content, especially your story telling. Nice going Mark!
Much appreciated! 👍
Brilliant! "Oh they will catch me, my legs don't work". Been in exactly the same situation 🤣. Great job, well done. Try the velodrome next.
This was such an entertaining video. Your commentary alone made it worth watching and the stats were good too.
You had me at “this was me” love every video... regards Mark from Aus....🏋️♀️🚴♂️
You’ve improved so much. Great job Mark 😎
Tip my hat to you! Like the way you are open and honest about what you are doing. Your analysis relating to flat vs hills is spot on. You are too big to climb hills quickly but powerful enough to to do it well enough to enjoy. The point is always to enjoy what you do, ignore the critics, what do they know? Doubt any single one of them has put in 500 days of concentrated effort into anything. Enjoy your competitions, enjoy your riding, stay safe.
Thanks Malcolm. It’s always cool to get great feedback. 👍🏼
Don’t let people take you down. Those complainers or haters were probably the ones who never out on a bike in the first place. When I did Zwift I improved my time. In the real world I improved time technique and stopped having cramps on long uphills. Good on y’a mate.
Loved this video.
Nice video, I like your dry humour and clean cut presentation and story telling 👍🏻
Great job and congrats on the race!
Hey, Mark, I’ve been riding and racing at different levels since I was 11 or 12 and I’m 45 now. Zwift is an amazing tool and there’s a reason so many bike racers use it, power is power. Fun channel you’ve got here.
One thing Zwift is totally useless for is getting a feel for the wind and how a course actually rolls. In racing on the road and tt’s, even rolling stretches on marathon MTB races, you learn to tweak position to cheat the wind. Head discipline with an aero helmet is also important.
I don’t know what your work-life balance and time commitment is, but it might be worth spending some time just on a drop bar road bike to get a clearer idea of handling and wind. Multi sport athletes have super high crash rates not because they’re bad handlers, but because they learn that handling in the least stable position on a bike.
Congrats on a solid ride!
Very good numbers on the bike!!! Great work!
Seriously .. stand up is at a loss with you !! Love your videos
Been considering getting a wahoo kickr as its not always easy to get on the bike in daylight hours with family commitments etc - this has pretty much convinced me that its a good idea. Thanks!