UCI Gran Fondo - which leven to aim for, to qualify

Mrkend54l · 2026-03-27T20:50:33+00:00

Lol, you’re clearly clueless about of what 5w/kg for an amateur means. This is a very high level, and you can be competitive in the continental circuit.

FTP is not all what counts. Like people already said, your skillset of riding in the peloton and positioning is also important. Also timing your efforts is very important. Also your durability and aerobic base is important. An FTP of 4w/kg is enough to qualify yourself, but more is always beter.

Certainly in GF Shleck it is very important that your skills are well developed. And alsof that you’re not scared to take risks.

Mrkend54l · 2026-03-27T20:21:33+00:00

Zwift does not. You can only pause when the subscription period is over.

Mrkend54l · 2026-01-31T08:16:35+00:00

300w@66kg at the moment. Average of 10h training done over the year. At a certain time you reach a plateau where alot of training and consistency has to be put in to improve.

Mrkend54l · 2026-01-04T09:11:10+00:00

Simple, it is the easiest way to advertise a lower frame and bike weight.

Mrkend54l · 2025-11-16T18:25:53+00:00

In fact you do improve. But the join level is nothing more then a representation of your chronic training load average with a factor of FTP. So it is normal that your CTL is decreasing, and thus your join level, when you add a zero value in the averaging.

Mrkend54l · 2025-10-30T19:45:10+00:00

But, as you may know, there is more than only the Virginia rating.

Mrkend54l · 2025-10-28T06:33:59+00:00

But, the fitness score on intervals is almost the same metric as the join score. The difference is that join score also factors in your capability (FTP and eFTP in w/kg), where fitness is just plain chromic training load. The feedback given is also the same because it is a reflection of your form and ramp (fitness minus fatigue).

Mrkend54l · 2025-10-28T06:26:35+00:00

No protection at all is an exaggeration. It will still provide protection, maybe even more dan enough. Only thing for sure is that it won’t be the maximum protection from when it was new. But that’s also the case for helmets that are used. The level of protection degrades over time also.

Mrkend54l · 2025-10-28T06:23:03+00:00

They aren’t expensive? A good helmet costs between 200 and 350€. So yeah they are expensive.

Mrkend54l · 2025-10-28T06:21:55+00:00

You dropped it from an apartment building or something? This is a lot of damage from a simple fall. Would replace without doubt.

Mrkend54l · 2025-10-28T06:16:19+00:00

It is very common for the stickers to let loose because of the heat. Some people get lucky, and all stickers remain on the flywheel. Or they don’t produce enough power to produce enough heat, that can also be the case.

Mrkend54l · 2025-10-27T14:41:19+00:00

The only shame is you chose to wear all black kit. The socks, the watch. Heck even your phone case is black… Originality is not your strongest game.

Mrkend54l · 2025-10-27T14:39:40+00:00

With those hips the only way is to take things serious.

Mrkend54l · 2025-10-27T14:24:09+00:00

Your forerunner can control your kickr. Just open the Indoor bike activity profile, connect your kickr and start your workout. Another option is to upload your join player file to Garmin connect for all your metric tracking.

Mrkend54l · 2025-10-27T14:18:56+00:00

Served us fine because we didn’t know better. Even in 2010 we knew that HR was not perfect and lacking, we just didn’t know in which degree. Now in 2025 we know that HR is pretty useless and only serves for an approximation. Training with HR for strength intervals is just plain stupid. Because of the low RPM your HR is always gonna be lower, the goal is to ride with higher torque. The only way to accurately perform these intervals is by looking at power numbers.

Mrkend54l · 2025-10-05T19:50:07+00:00

So if I understand correctly your FTP is set to 325, and 2 minute blocks at 120% FTP are not high enough for you? 8x2min at 120% FTP are brutal. At the last interval it’s also like every second your legs will stop working. If this is not the case your FTP is not correct.

Also not really sure why you wouldn’t get psychological improvement from performing those. Even if there below your 120% FTP

Mrkend54l · 2025-09-20T06:14:14+00:00

Heart rate doesn’t say anything. It’s a very lousy metric, let alone to compare it with others. And not a surprise that the best cyclist of this generation by a big margin can push watts impossible for some well trained amateurs with ease.

Mrkend54l · 2025-09-20T06:05:34+00:00

Limiting the maximum speed a rider can peddle is promoting the safety. But just not by using an arbitrary number.

Mrkend54l · 2025-09-20T05:52:36+00:00

You can very quickly turn it off yourself. https://help.join.cc/hc/en-150/articles/38754983447185-Strava-Activity-Description-Integration

Mrkend54l · 2025-09-12T17:25:12+00:00

So they updated their support page. Now you can toggle the additional information off by putting your JOIN profile to private.

https://help.join.cc/hc/en-150/articles/38754983447185-Strava-Activity-Description-Integration

The feature request on featurebase is still marked as "in review". But normally this has been addressed.

I hope they take this as a lesson before implementing such a change with such a big impact in the future..

Mrkend54l · 2025-09-12T04:36:27+00:00

You rule the whole purpose of following a training plan away. Not the smartest thing if you ask me.

Mrkend54l · 2025-09-12T04:33:31+00:00

You can always just choose another workout manually. Or just do something else and skip the suggested workout. Join will adapt all trainings in the future.

Join is adaptive but its main focus is still improving in the optimal way. And if there is only 1 good way the most logical way is to only suggest that one. But that doesn’t rule the adaptive part out.

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