Every Wednesday at 7pm UK-time, TRI247 present a triathlon focused workout brought to you by a guest 'coach.' This will include sessions by pro triathletes, coaches and notable characters associated with the sport.

The workouts are about 60 minutes long and designed to add variety and interest to your weekly training schedule.

THE SESSION

This week’s session is relatively mild in effort, given that we know that many of our regulars have been ’smashing it’ elsewhere in Zwift races, virtual challenges and more in this current environment, where ‘lockdown’ is the daily lives of many. Given that, we wanted to balance those high intensity efforts elsewhere, with a mostly aerobic, sustained efforts for this week’s workout. The first ‘Lockdown Roller’ proved to be really popular, so here is the follow-up session!

The main set comprises of three, 13-minute blocks, separated by a short recovery. Each block will start steady, simulate a (gently) rolling course – include a minute at FTP in the middle – and then return.

Aerobic maintenance is the primary goal tonight, not killer intervals!!!


ABOUT GROUP WORKOUTS

Zwifters line up in the starting area just like a normal event and once the event starts, workout mode begins. Everyone stays together regardless of power output. That's right, if you're outputting 100W and another Zwifter is outputting 400W you will stay in exactly the same position relative to each other. Only if you stop pedaling and fall 6 meters behind the group will the rubber-banding stop.

HELPFUL HINT

We highly recommend doing one of the FTP tests as the estimated FTP can be inaccurate and make the difficulty level of the workouts too high for your current fitness level.