I sometimes do a long zwift route spread over 2 days … e.g. 45 min workout on 1st half of route on monday, 45 min workout on 2nd half on tuesday. I have just joined TR and it looks like that gets logged as one long ride, rather than 2 separate ones. Is that intended behaviour?
I didnt even know that was possible to split a route over two days - that will help me tick off some badges!
With regard to how it is then synced to TR - I think that will be a Zwift programming choice - what does the ride look like in strava?
How does Zwift deal with the split ?
Guessing you are leaving it logged on in a stopped condition overnight, but how does that turn into two separate rides?
Got me curious on how to split the routes. Some of those 3 hours an up routes I said I’ll never do in one sitting. Hell I think there’s one that’s 8 hours long.
I leave Zwift logged in for, say, 48 hours. When I save the ride, zwift sees it as one very long ride. I’m guessing it will appear like that on TR too.
I’ve never split one into 2 days, but 4 or 5 years ago during winter I did a few of the long ones by breaking them into a morning + an afternoon ride. Finish the morning ride and then just leave yourself logged in and parked on the side of the road. Have some lunch, do whatever else I need to do, and then hop back on in the afternoon to finish it off. It obviously gives you a very long finishing time as the clock is still running when you’re not on the bike. The first one I just deleted the file from TR as the numbers were pretty messed up with a multi hour break in the middle of it. The other two I did using Zwift and TR at the same time. The am ride was a 2.5 hour TR workout and then the afternoon one was a 2 hour TR workout giving me 4.5 hours which was enough to finish the route I was trying to get. Doing it that way gives you 2 good files in TR.
I definitely preferred the using them both at once method. I just used an endurance workout in erg mode and would manually adjust the power if for example I wanted to push a few more watts on the climbs or coast the downhills.
I’ve finished every route but that damn PRL Full, maybe I’ll try the multi day ride to knock that one out this winter.
PRL Full is more of a mental challenge as it gets pretty boring. I don’t think its the hardest.
Agreed, in 2020 and 2021 I was doing lots of long rides on the trainer and had built up both the physical and mental conditioning to do them that way. Since then almost all of my rides over 2 hours have been outside so the idea of being on the trainer for that kind of time now sounds awful.