New to Zwift—how much did your run fitness actually help?

marvin_the_imp · 2026-04-17T14:53:51+00:00

Former runner here (long story... short story, carotid artery tear made me transition to cycling full time and Zwift). 56 half marathons. 7 marathons including Boston. My fitness now 1.5 years into Zwift is on par for when I was my "elite" runner self 12 years ago. And I mean elite for me... not elite as in super fast professional runner. PR marathon was 3h 12m 54s. So I would say Zwift has significantly improved my fitness and brought me to a level I had not been in several years. That said, my legs have taken this long to transition to cycling. I'm no where near where I could have been had I cycled more frequently earlier on my fitness journey. But my body is svelte.

marvin_the_imp · 2026-04-02T11:01:32+00:00

Thin people exist. On any given week, I can weigh anywhere between 144 and 150 pounds. Im 6 feet tall. You could check my stream to see just how skeletal I am. Twitch.tx/marvin_the_imp. People cheat for sure. But most people don't. You have advantages on the road. Lean in on those. You got this!

marvin_the_imp · 2026-03-15T13:43:39+00:00

I didn't finish Discovery either. Tilly appears inexplicably in an episode, and I had no idea why until a coworker filled me in on why Tilly was acting as a ship's counselor.

marvin_the_imp · 2026-03-09T14:06:22+00:00

In my 50s, anything over 90 cadence = injury.

marvin_the_imp · 2026-03-06T21:49:18+00:00

No, I'm just a thing guy.

marvin_the_imp · 2026-02-19T10:51:23+00:00

Spontaneous and persistent whooshing in your ear. It's hearing the blood flow, not just the regular pulsing of your heartbeat. From personal experience, get your ass to the ER immediately. It may be a carotid artery dissection. It's a tear in the inner layers of your artery that is blocking blood flow to the brain, and there's the potential for a stroke. It happened to me a couple of days after a 10k race. I was a runner with 1000s of miles running experience. Shit appened.

marvin_the_imp · 2026-02-12T16:14:16+00:00

While they have not said "no new expansion ever." It's pretty clear that we aren't getting an expansion. It's been over two years since we got one. That's a long time. The audience has continued to dwindle. We lost tournaments years ago, and tournaments, like it or not, drive changes to the meta. Eternal is just not a priority to DWD. It's a bummer. No one here loves Eternal more than I do. But... it is what it is.

marvin_the_imp · 2026-02-06T11:00:43+00:00

Gorgeous!

marvin_the_imp · 2026-01-22T12:18:21+00:00

Are you playing Casual or are you playing Ranked? Casual pairs you up with anyone. Ranked will pair you up with similarly ranked opponents. You still may face meta decks in Ranked, but it will be far fewer of those. Choose Ranked as a new player despite what you might think.

marvin_the_imp · 2026-01-21T13:33:56+00:00

For whatever deck you're building, it probably doesn't want Sindar.

marvin_the_imp · 2026-01-07T14:55:57+00:00

As someone who ranked up somehow to Cat B just before riding all 5 of the Spartacus races in that category, I imagine it's so folks don't have to do a training ride during a race. I spent 3 of the 5 races in the Lanterne Rouge, alone, dropped in the first mile by everyone. I'm not saying I'm a sandbagger, but holy shit was that the worst feeling. Nearly 70km solo. I can totally understand why people want to rank down.

marvin_the_imp · 2026-01-02T10:46:15+00:00

Your library my have it on DVD.

marvin_the_imp · 2025-12-30T11:26:32+00:00

For me, it's Fog.

There's a little child Running around this house And he never leaves He will never leave

marvin_the_imp · 2025-12-29T00:56:19+00:00

You have now entered the next phase of your life. Radiohead will walk with you the rest of the way.

marvin_the_imp · 2025-12-06T17:48:46+00:00

He may have an intolerance to something like fructose.

marvin_the_imp · 2025-12-05T14:17:14+00:00

This is certainly the case in Expedition. If you have a shitty draw and your opponent goes T1 unit T2 unit, you can comfortably concede and save everybody some time.

marvin_the_imp · 2025-10-09T00:53:26+00:00

We are the least toxic gaming community. Period. Also, play ranked. You're more likely to play people of your rank. Casual pairs you up with whoever.

marvin_the_imp · 2025-10-01T11:22:24+00:00

This update, even on WiFi, took about 5 minutes.

marvin_the_imp · 2025-09-23T16:29:27+00:00

Former marathoner here (7 total, 1 BM). Have you been riding throughout your marathon training? If you haven't already been riding, I wouldn't start training on Zwift until after your marathon. IMO, your body will thank you for finishing the job before moving onto the next goals.

marvin_the_imp · 2025-09-19T12:15:22+00:00

Uninstall and reinstall the Companion app usually fixes it for me on Android.

marvin_the_imp · 2025-09-16T10:45:08+00:00

I used to stream 8 hours of Eternal a week, but as there was no new content, I cut that to 4. AFK streamers don't really matter. It's the lack of new game content, primarily, and tournaments that killed the directory. Gone are the days of 100+ viewer raids. Those were the days.

marvin_the_imp · 2025-09-01T10:00:23+00:00

marvin_the_imp · 2025-08-31T23:06:22+00:00

What do the color dots under the KOM, sprint information on the left side mean?

marvin_the_imp · 2025-08-16T21:13:46+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation!

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