I’m interested to see people’s attempts at riding in Zone 2 on real roads with traffic, variable roads and hills. On a few of the recent TR podcasts it’s been mentioned that TR users have shared with the team a “Zone 2” ride, only for the data to be full of power spikes/efforts or below the enduran…

I gave up trying to do Z2 by power outside. Upper end of Z2 for me is around 240 watts so that gets me to around 35kph (if it’s flat and depending on wind). That’s way to fast for the densly populated place I live in to ride savely. I usually do outdoor endurance rides with the baby in the trailer a…

[IMG_5418] The middle block is about 90 minutes of z2. Average power 190, normalized 197.

I have a feeling I won’t get much credit for my Z2 outdoor rides when workout levels V2 comes out.

Living in a river valley there are quite a few short punchy hills. Hard to find a 25+ mile route with less than 1500ish vertical throughout. This was yesterday with the middle 75 minutes being really focused on staying in z2. Few stop signs and a couple quick stops to fiddle with things. [image]

[image] Above is my lunch ride: 1.5hr zone 2 with less than 1000ft climbing [image] Above is the same roads but a 3hr weekend ride [image] Above is a hilly zone 2 with about 4500ft climbing. Terrain doesn’t matter much, just push the pedals lighter if you’ve got hills. I’m also not against …

My ambition yesterday evening, was to go out on a nice Z2 ride to get a few hours out in the wonderful weather. Earlier during the day i did a 90min VO2 max session, so I was a tad heavy legged. Well, I started out doing fine, kept my power at an okay wattage… but then the rolling landscape changed…

Great thread; big thanks to those sharing their files, flat or otherwise! Very illuminating.

hahaha “I tried riding Z2” (with an IF of .94). Exactly my humour.

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Use of full range gearing, along with cadence changes, even with elevation changes on non-flat courses:

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