My TrainerRoad app definitely said it was in Erg mode. However, I did notice at one point when I stopped for a sec to move my fan, I didn’t get into one of those power death spirals I’ve read about which makes me think it’s not in Erg…
I have a Tacx Neo 2T. This is my first week using it. I was running Zwift in the background but made sure to deselect “controllable” for Zwift. And can confirm that when going up inclines on Zwift there was no major change in effort. I do NOT have a separate power meter, only a cadence sensor.
Maybe there is still some competition between apps given there is only the one power meter.
100%. We are in week ten and work incredibly well together. We’ve worked out a plan to walk every day but for three of the days she’ll take babe without me and I’ll go on the trainer. I have six months parental leave and my wife unfortunately has none as she runs her own business so I do majority of the housework, meals and most of the naps. I’m the last to go to bed and the first to get up in the morning so we’ve “agreed” that a low volume plan is a good start to give me something that’s “mine” and keeps my mental and physical health in check. And knowing that I may need to miss or decrease to 30mins sometimes. We’re a week in so we’ll see what happens!
The only time I’ve seen ERG mode change with cadence is when Zwift is also trying to control the trainer, has only happened a few times, I click off the Zwift pairing screen and it isn’t selected and on rechecking it is. Must have just grabbed it when I clicked off the pairing screen.
Well I ended up taking that planned rest day forward to Thursday after those previous sessions. Listen to body right!
Friday: 2.5 hour easy trail run. (22km), keeping HR in zone 2 and stryd power in zone 1… Well for most of time until I hit hills! Really enjoyed. Saturday: first over under in a long time, kept my reduced FTP, it felt right for over/unders so it must be in right ball park. Avalanche Spire-2
Sunday: Fun National Trust monthly 10km trail run. First time in 15 years I’ve gone under 50 minutes, don’t normally run at my top end for clock times, but all felt right in woods and really enjoyed pushing myself. Did the old ‘Sink slowly into the bath and see how it feels’ approach, no plans for fast or slow…
Did Caltech -8 today, was a stretch for me (4.3 up from 2.8, last workout was Pope), found it a bit intimidating looking but it went okay. Rated it as Hard.
Failed Spanish Needle -3 as my last workout before going on vacation and the start of the month and immediately catching covid for the first time. I took some time off the bike and then only did low intensity and endurance work for a while. Tried Tyndall -5 about 5 days after testing positive as it has similar 15 sec microbursts like Spanish Needle and wasn’t hitting the targets so abandoned after finishing the second group of intervals.
Since then did an auto detect for a slight FTP increase and have successfully completed Black Giant -2, Pope and now Caltech -8 so hopefully am on the right track. Will follow the plan up to my last A race of the season but then would like to try Spanish Needle -3 and Tyndall -5 again before another ramp test or auto detect.
I don’t have any timelines for release at the moment. The only update we can provide is that this remains in-process as a high priority for the development team. I’ll provide new information as it becomes available!
Hey @rkoswald. Circling back to this. Today I completed another workout and you’re 100% right. Even though TR said ERG and Zwift “controllable” was deselected, I definitely wasn’t in Erg mode. The moment I exited Zwift, TR / ERG regained all control and I was able to use ERG as intended!
I’m going to review the links shared previous about how to have both Z and TR going simultaneously to see how to fix this and have Z not take over.
@EbonyC glad to help! What devices are you running Zwift and TR on? How are you connecting each to your trainer (eg Ant+ or Bluetooth)? How many Bluetooth connections does your trainer support?
I have a Kickr Core 2018, which has only one connection. I run both Zwift and TR from a single laptop, so I have an Ant+ dongle that I plug into the laptop. I load Zwift first and Connect it to the trainer and HRM via Ant+. I then load TR and connect the same devices via Bluetooth. I know others Connect in the opposite order and with the protocols reversed - you need to experiment.
Good luck and let me know if you have any questions. I took me a while to figure out my “system” and I’m happy to pass along what I’ve learned.
I was connected to Zwift first on my iPhone, deselecting the controllable option and via Bluetooth, and then to TR using my Microsoft surface book with an ANT+ dongle.
I have a Tacx Neo 2T.
Tomorrow I’m going to try to pair both to my PC - Zwift first over Bluetooth and then TR with ANT+.
I want to keep using ant+ for now for TR as I have an older Garmin heart rate monitor that’s only ant. I have the hrm plus pro in order which does both BLE and Ant but it’s a couple of weeks away. Once I have that, I’d prefer to run TR on my iPhone and just Zwift on my laptop.
Yes. Taking me a while too. As mentioned, with a 11 week old baby I unfortunately can’t spend hours testing and tinkering. I have my set 1-1.5 hours at a time and I need to use that to train. Just gotta keep trying things at the starts of workouts. Might then take a few weeks - I appreciate your patience helping me navigate this one!
Got ambitious and did the same 30/15s workout as last week, only with an extra set. Went from feeling “Good Hard” to just good old “Very Hard”. Simultaneously pleased that I dug deep, pushed through and got it done, and relieved that it’s recovery week so I won’t be doing them next week. =D
A bit of a fail from me tonight on Window. I probably should have done it indoors but I wanted to get out but the 9minutes gradual then 20minutes of zone 1 had me thinking too much before I even got to the 1st interval, I just had no mojo. The 2nd interval was even worse. On hindsight I shouldn’t have started it straight away on a long downhill with a tailwind but I was conscious of getting around before dark. The 3rd interval just followed the no mojo theme and the 40minutes cool down totally wrecked my chances of finding my mojo.
I had a fail today too. I’m struggling a bit with intensity after putting in a ton of hours on the eMtb last week (close to double my normal weekly hours). Those hours weren’t high TSS, but they’re hard work on the entire body getting the mtb over rocks and off the ground. I don’t feel overly exhausted, but as soon as the intensity goes up this week, I start thinking about quitting. Going to take it very careful for the next several days and ensure I don’t end up overtraining. Wasn’t sure if I should mark it too intense or training fatigue, but went with intensity since I felt like I could have done 90 minutes in Z2 easily.
HAHA… I only laugh at this because I can totally put myself in your shoes. Just made it halfway through, getting there was so painful, and then the next interval starts up and you just say “screw this!” and pull the plug. Totally been there brother!
Week has gone well so far, since last post I’ve done following… Monday : Treadmill 8kph @ 4%(320m) incline Zone 2 HR Recovery Run 60 minutes. Was a rest day but get some very easy running volume in. Tuesday:Cedric Threshold 3.0
Felt good and marked it as Moderate. Put a ramp in for Wednesday just to get an updated FTP. Increased to 287, then cancelled ramp Wednesday: Treadmill Zwift Academy Run 2021: Workout 5 | 5k Intensive Intervals (long) with 4% incline (54mins). I do hate Running intervals, these were slightly over 10k Race pace with incline and felt harder than they should have, probably indoor effects, cooling etc.
Drops in pace were grabbing phone after first interval set and after second interval set I swapped trainers from Altras to Fivefigers as calf and hamstring on right leg was noticeable. That seemed to do the trick! Thursday: Rose Sweetspot 3.0 with New FTP, creeping up again…
Was labelled as a stretch, finished and I marked it down as Moderate, Never found any of it Hard and raised rest intervals to keep legs warm. Many months ago I wouldn’t have bothered with the ‘rest’ intervals power drops, still have a way to go to get back there and get FTP up. No leg issues from previous days run. Friday: Having a complete rest day, am doing nothing, not even a extra slow recovery run, going to give legs a nice 24hr+ break before a Saturday run and Sunday Ride.
