Christmas Eve weather outside looked great for a bike ride but I had a time limitation so I turned to Zwift and rode The Herd’s Tuesday Social Group Ride for 59:39 logging 20.47 miles. 305 other bikers joined me as we rode through the streets of London. The pace was not too hard and I moved up through the group to the front 30 a couple of times piercing the fence once. Most of the ride I hovered around 90 to 105.

I am still trying to get the hang of messaging while riding. I tried to login to the Discord forum for the ride but that is tough while pedaling and entering the URL, username, and password. Then Discord sent an email because my location changed from my last login. The tiny keyboard on my phone didn’t allow me to complete all of this successfully so I watched the messages as they popped up in Zwift.

Another biker messaged about jumping. His computer knocked him out of Zwift and getting back in he fell behind the group. I don’t know how to “jump” and the question was when you jump where do you land. The leader said he thought it would be near his position in the group. I could’ve used this in a ride where I had technical difficulties and started way behind the group.

Staying behind the fence during the ride required some vigilance as it would appear out of nowhere at times. I try to watch the small box in the upper right hand corner for the fence location but that doesn’t always alert you to sudden changes like when the route goes uphill and riders slow down. The leader controls the fence from his location and how many seconds it moves in front of him.