I did the Thanksgiving Day ride with Eric Min last year and it had about 3,300 people. The chat was completely unusable, but I was impressed Zwift didn’t even break a sweat.
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Knocking out my Tempo ride now so I can chill when this rolls out.
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Pro tip: A short TR workout works better for warmup before an event than just spinning in the pen. You can teleport to the event whenever you’re ready (hitting “join event” saves the workout as a separate activity).
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Eric does a pretty great job of MC’ing group rides, wonder what his setup is like. Maybe he’s just dictating to an assistant 
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Fun ride….thanks for putting it together!!
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I missed it, thought I’d get another crack at the free trial the app was offering me but when it forwarded me to account only renewal was available. I can’t recall when I last subscribed to it…must’ve been years ago.
How was it?
Good ride with lots of chat and dun. I had to leave at 1hr but they still had a ways to go to finish. Seemed like a success to me.
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It was fun. Lots of banter, and Eric, Nate and Jonathan did a great job hosting. It turned out not to be a banded ride after all, so I ended up going harder than intended:
It was fun to hang out with a bunch of people from this forum, though.
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Was very glad the ride was not banded….was kinda dreading that.
I was ironically doing a workout on TR on the side, so I ended up in between the two CEO groups, but had a decent little group around me and we were just chugging along nicely.
Would love to see a regular TR ride on a Saturday or Sunday. I’m willing to volunteer to help get something set up.
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I saw a couple people who weren’t wearing the TR kit and had a little red jersey icon next to their names. One of them had “Lidl Trek” in their name. Were they actual pro cyclists? If so, that’s cool, never seen that in a group ride.
Yeah, pro riders have their virtual team kits on all the time, even in group rides where all participants are supposed to be in the same kit.
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Done it. Great ride althought initialy I was going to do my 2h Threshold before and ended getting too late for that then swapped the WO for an 1h alternate and I distracted myself and it was too late for that too so I went into the ride thinking on a soft kind of extended warmup to do the 1h Threshold after but 15 minutes in I was doing thereshold power to catch some guys ahead and then thought why not do this a couple more times and be done with the workout inside the ride. And so it was.
Not a perfect grahp but a lot of threshold there.
Was a bit sceptic how the AI would deal with this but the TSS was close to the workout estimate although less time and a higer IF on the ride.
Just associated the ride with the workout on TR app and replied the survey and all seems ok like it didnt impact negatively on my plan (doing the ride and not the WO). No adaptations were suggested 
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I just meant there didnt seem to be a link to the ride in Jonathan’s post so I pasted it in myself, thats all.
In the event I couldn’t make it anyway as I ran ten miles then was in the pub by 4pm 
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