Originally Posted by
unterhausen
I have noticed that some events are not created by zwift. There is probably a way to make them public, the club I belong to does it by invitation only. It's a bit awkward. OTOH, it would be weird if a batch of people we don't know showed up*. But since the riders we know are from all over the world, some people might show up that know us.
*I was going to call them randos, but we're a batch of randonneurs. So we're the randos.
The public group rides I've done need quite a bit of work: leaders and sweepers, a description of the ride type and speeds, texts during the ride, etc. Private invitation rides are simple to arrange, and the riders already should know what to expect. I like that both types of groups rides are available. The public rides often have a front fence option. That's either set to "remove riders that stay in front of the fence for 60 seconds", or "let the riders keep going off the front as far as they want, it's just a reminder."
Pacer bot rides with teleporting!
I've been doing the Zwift bot pacer rides, but in the past, I wanted to warm up first so I wouldn't get dropped.
Now: I pick an easy pace group, do a longer warmup, then hit the Teleport button on the phone app. It's the one that looks like two map marker icons.
Now I see all the bot speed groups and can pick one. I get the usual 10 seconds to start pedaling. And if I get dropped, I can teleport back to that group instead of doing the frustrating high wattage efforts to close the gap. I've done "intervals" this way, with a set of jumps to a too-fast group. How long can I hang on the fast pace?
The whole session gets recorded as one ride. (The map shows straight lines connecting the teleported locations of the different start points during the ride.)