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I've got a 100 miler sportive road ride in 10 weeks time. Then in between I'm doing a 60 mile road ride and a Scott marathon 60 km MTB ride too.
Just trying to sort a training program but need to stick my chips on one of the above really. I enjoy zwift but not sure just racing is going to give me the best outcome. Trainer road I've used in the past with decent results but can find it a little boring with just following a graph. Might struggle with the longer rides on that one.
Suffferfest I've never tried and don't know much about it really tbh.
So any training tips ? Never done 60 or 100 miles before and I'm about 95kg so would ideally like to lose weight in the process too
Use TodaysPlan instead? Visually better and more informative than TR and I think a little more personalised also, and the workouts are synced with Zwift.
The other thing about TP is you don't have to subscribe monthly e.g you can pay something like £25 for a 10 week plan to be generated for you.
IMO it makes for a lovely interface, as you get the dedicated relatively personal training plan expressed on the Zwift landscape.
Birmingham Velo?
I'd pick the one you can tolerate the most time on, TR and SF for the most part focus on shorter durations.
Whilst some of the Sweetspot intervals would be beneficial in terms of developing muscular/strength endurance I have thought miles in the saddle would serve you best?
If you can commit to a long ride on a weekend you could probably back it up with the shorter trainer options midweek when time is at a premium.
Yeah that's the one haze then I'm doing ride the reservoir too in April which is 60 miles. I've got a one year old so I'm pretty time poor really
I've used Zwift and am now using trainer road. Zwift is better visually but i'm getting more bang for my buck now i've switched to trainer road. Personally, i'd go with trainer road, pick a low volume plan and make sure you do the intensive sessions in the week indoors and then at the weekend i'd go out on the road and do some longer endurance rides. The high intensity rides are an hour 30 at the most and i can happy manage these listening to a podcast or watching something in youtube without becoming bored.
Hope this helps and good luck.
The free beta of Virtugo has a load of training programs you can use while using your turbo in ERG mode, at least with ANT+ connection.
https://virtugo.com/
It doesn't have training programs, but more course options, including the option of carrying on from where you left off last time on a route with the free beta of RoadGrandTours.
https://www.roadgrandtours.com/
Don't forget that Zwift now gives monthly free trials of 25Km, which even though that would be useless training on flat courses, would give you ~2 rides up "Mountain8" climb or at least one climb of "Alpe Du Zwift." There's also a nice little but hilly route at New York "Grand Central Circuit," https://www.strava.com/segments/19141192 (you could even do ~2.4Km reps of this to the Lady Liberty summit before quiting/saving and going again from the official route start point).
Don't forget that for routes like Alpe Du Zwift that officially require level12 to unlock, you can use the "join" feature to break in, you just need to take a guess from someone's distance and average to speed to guess they have gone past the barrier. 😉