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20th June 2018

Open Water Swimming in Yorkshire

Looking to open water swim in Leeds or the Yorkshire area? This is what I’ve found out as being available: Open to all Blue Lagooners – https://www.bluelagooners.com/ Membership £35 adult, £25 junior (12-17 years) Wednesday 6pm to 8pm Saturday 8am to 10am Sunday 8am to 10am Session Costs: Members £4 (or buy 20 session credits for £70) Non Members £10...

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13th June 2018

Half Century Triathlete – starting out

So as opposed to standard mid life crisis around buying a sports car or a motorbike, I rather strangely decided to get into the world of Triathlon. This was inspired by watching the ITU World Series in Leeds during 2016 which started off in Roundhay Park where I regularly walk my dog. ...

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6th March 2018

How To: Create Running Workouts in Zwift

Zwift Run is becoming more and more popular, with organized runs and training events now being held regularly. Running workouts created by ZwiftHQ are also available in-game, and I believe distance-based run workouts from Training Peaks are syncing across to Zwift for those TP users with run plans. But the game’s workout editor does not yet allow us to create...

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6th March 2018

Linking your Smart Scales to Zwift

One of the keys to being successful and fair in Zwift racing is making sure your weight is current and correct. I just discovered that you can automatically sync your smart scales to Zwift. This is fairly simply done via the Zwift Mobile Link app. (These instructions are based on the app for iOS.) Once open, tap more in the...

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11th December 2017

Manually editing Zwift workouts

Whilst the Zwift workout editor is pretty good, it doesn’t have the option to repeat intervals and hence can be a lengthy process for multiple repeat training. Let’s say you want to do two intervals, each of 10 x 30secs on, 30 secs off. This is pretty slow to set up under the Zwift graphical editor, however there is a...

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19th November 2016

Backing up your Zwift custom workouts

Backing up and syncing your Zwift custom workouts on Windows Have you ever wished you could create your Zwift workouts on one computer, but have them available on another computer? Or perhaps you’re just wanting to make sure your painstakingly-created Zwift workouts are backed up? ZwiftHQ has plans to add automatic cloud backup and sync to custom workouts, but we...

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17th May 2016

Don’t lose sight of the big picture.

I recently did some professional sales negotiation training, where they talked about moving difficult negotiations up from the micro to the macro level. Tonight I was walking back from an evening meal and I started to think how this could be applied to the amateur/semi serious athlete, and the answer was surprisingly simple. All too often we focus on our...

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18th September 2015

Strava estimated power vs real

I’ve always wondered if the Strava estimated power was close to real power. So on a couple of specific segments I’ve run my phone using Strava and my Garmin using a power meter so that I can compare. You can see from the screenshots below the differences. In summary for smaller segments it was within 5%, drifing out to 13%...

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15th September 2015

Syncing OneDrive to an SD Card on Windows 10

My previous method stopped working with Windows 10, fortunately I found another workaround on the Microsoft Forums as follows: It looks like the OneDrive client in the RTM version of Windows 10 does not allow syncing OneDrive to an SD card via the empty NTFS folder method if there isn’t enough free space on the C: drive for the data...

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6th February 2015

Easter Skiing at Stuben

I’ve put this together to show the conditions during April over the past four years. [Show slideshow] Click down for some videos from 2011 onwards….

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