Technology is great when it works. For some reason today my Wahoo Tickr Fit heart rate monitor wouldn’t pair with the Zwift companion app on my phone. Of course I didn’t find this out until the start of the ride as the countdown clock went to zero. Standing at the start line as 311 other Zwifters rode away I attempted to get the Tickr to connect. After numerous attempts I switched to using my computer and it found the Tickr almost immediately. By then the Pack was in the distance. For the second Zwift ride in a row I stopped about halfway through the ride at 10.76 miles out of the planned 20.5 miles.

As I rode the course around Richmond in the reverse of the UCI Worlds direction my w/kg continued to not equal the levels of rides before I did the spin down calibration several days ago. Looking at the speed and watts I am beginning to think they are correct and the output before the calibration was wrong. My speed and watts mirror when I ride on the road so maybe there isn’t a problem with the smart trainer. I think I will change the percentage setting in Zwift and see what that does. In the Wahoo Utility app I enabled ERG Mode and in Zwift I set the power to Max. This will probably kill my legs tomorrow. I will try a test ride before joining a group ride.

Links to the Strava activity page and the SportTracks activity page.