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Are we wrong about power?

May 9, 202644 min

Oh No! Anyway..... (again)

May 3, 202647 min

The Last Chicken

Apr 25, 202633 min

Old Nonsense

Apr 18, 202655 min

Ep 270Gravel Science

Steve, John, Stef & Craig cover Zwift's new gravel initiative and just how precisely it's been implemented.

Apr 11, 202631 min

Ep 269April Foolishness

Steve, John and Brent sit down to chat about the No Spring Chickens and Herd Beginner Races this weekend, the big "This Season in Zwift" news drop and what we would do if we could set up the Zwift April Fool's gag. Thanks for listening!

Apr 3, 202638 min

Ep 268Do You Even Moose?

Steve, Chris, Stef, John and Brent gather to discuss the first week of No Spring Chickens, this week's Herd Beginner Racing, an Omnium recap and What We've Been Zwifting. Stick around to find out what our picks would be if we could add Herd themed items to the Zwift Big Spin Spinners. Bonus content - find out why John has electrodes in his butt!

Mar 21, 202641 min

Ep 267Mid-Omnium Checkup on Pi Day

Chris and Craig talk first half of Omnium with 3 down, 3 to go, HBR on the same route as the Omnium TT, No Spring Chickens on the way and what outside Herd series we're doing at the moment.

Mar 15, 202631 min

Ep 266Ride and Prejudice

On this week's episode, Steve, Steph, John and Brent chat about the last week of Herd Winter Racing, changes to Herd Beginner Racing, the Herd Ladder Madness event and chasing unlocks at the Mystery Spinner. And then we have a special bonus segment. For those who love romance, literature and all round goofiness, keep listening to the bonus segment!

Mar 7, 202636 min

Ep 265What To Do After HWR

Stef, John and Brent sit down to talk about the week in Herd Racing and then go on to preview the Zwift Big Spin (Rhinestone Cowboy everyone!) and the next Omnilicious Herd racing event.

Mar 1, 202644 min

Ep 264Climbing The Ladder

Stef, Craig, John, Marjolein & Brent talk about the monsters in HWR on Libby Hill After Party, HBR is on Tick Tock, still a couple of weeks for the winter Stampede Challenge, upcoming Climber's Gambit and big push on Ladder League with ZRL on hiatus again, celebrating the introduction of Herd Women's Ladder teams!

Feb 21, 202642 min

Ep 263Not so Humble Brags

Sean, Craig, John, Brent and Stef sit down to chat about the week in Herd Racing, the upcoming Zwift Games, racing options in the ZRL interregnum and some of us have some brags about what we've been up to outside of Zwift. Grab a drink or listen on your ride. Moo!

Feb 14, 202644 min

Ep 262Storytime with Craig

Steve, Sean, Brent & Stef put up with Craig's ramblings...

Feb 8, 202648 min

Ep 261What's Up Next

Stef, John, Craig and the long-awaited return of Sean. We talk about HWR on Climber's Gambit, Intro to Racing Group Rides, announce February Stampede course, ECRO pre-season and what's with this suggestion thing Zwift's got going on?

Jan 31, 202641 min

Ep 260We're Sorry to all of France

Brent, Stef, John and Craig talk about HWR on Bon Voyage, misadventures in ZRL, questionable Zwift scheduling and will we ever do the (mild?) madness of "The Full Watopia"

Jan 24, 202639 min

Ep 259Tour of Tours

Brent, John, Stef and Craig talk about HWR on a new course, ask whether we have people mistaking HWR for HBR, and talk about Stef's crazy racing schedule over the past 3 weeks.

Jan 10, 202647 min

Ep 258Year in Review (2025)

John, Stef and Craig go over a very busy year in Zwift.

Jan 3, 20261h 11m

Ep 257Happy Holidays!

Stef, Craig, Return of Nate H. & Geoff Stoll's late debut - talking about HWR on Craigs favourite of Royal Pump Room 8, what we're doing for riding over the holidays and our best tips for someone new to Zwift and Zwift Racing in 2026.

Dec 25, 202546 min

Ep 256Got Spinback?

This week, Steve, Craig, Stef, Sean and Brent chat about their Spinback stats (or lack thereof), the route schedule for the next ZRL, plans for winter events as well as this week's Herd Racing events. Come for the Zwift, stay to find out how Canada has been slighted this week and let us know what your Spinback looks like in the comments.

Dec 14, 20251h 1m

Ep 255Zwiftmas Wish Lists

In what is probably an annual (ish?) tradition John, Stef, Craig and Brent go through what they would like Zwift to bring them as a gift. May be a bit of ranting. Also the week in Zwift racing (both Brent and John had done HWR this week!), news on Tour de Boudicca's new partner series and general Zwift chat. Pour your favourite drink and take a listen after you chill out from your ride and let us know your Zwiftmas Wish in the FB group or in the comments.

Dec 6, 202553 min

Ep 254Drafting in a horizontal plane

This week Sean, Stef, John and Brent sit down to talk about this week in Zwift racing, Zwift's fix for the drafting bug that we found interesting and how we are doing on yearly totals and plans to wrap up the year. Plus the usual bit of drinks and waffling.

Nov 29, 202552 min

Ep 253They've abandoned us in the Pod

Stef and John get abandoned by Craig and Steve to do the rest of the podcast. Bologna (almost) 2 laps for HWR, talking a bit of ZRL, new courses, Zwift trying to be Mario Kart, crank lengths and more.

Nov 23, 202530 min

Ep 252Racing Bromptons Virtually because real life Brompton Racing isn't Weird Enough

Chris, Stef, Craig & Brent talk Coast to Coast in HWR, Douce France HBR, New New York route for Stampede, Zwift Brompton Racing because real Brompton Racing isn't weird enough, and geek out about ZwiftRacing.app 's new upgrades.

Nov 14, 202547 min

Ep 251What are we doing here? (Fuhgedaboutit Edition)

Sean, Stef, John, Brent and special returning member Chris Greenland! talk about the week in Herd Racing plus Brent has thoughts about the new New York roads. Also a late breaking appearance by Steve Pritchard with ideas about how to use Zwift's new Brompton. Drinks, chats, racing glory (ish). Tune in and let us know your thoughts on the New York roads and Bromptons in the comments.

Nov 8, 202554 min

Ep 250Halloween Tour of The Herd wrap-up

We talk about the Tour of The Herd results, talk about the New New York roads some more.

Nov 5, 202540 min

Ep 249Mid Tour of The Herd Crash Avoidance

John Stef and Craig talk about Zwift racing in the middle of the Tour of The Herd. Stef is still mad that ladder races don't count for bonus points.

Nov 5, 202542 min

Ep 248Itza Party! & Tour of The Herd

Brent, Craig, Sean, John, Stef and sometimes Steve talk about the HARE finale on Itza Party!, and announce the Tour of The Herd, this year's Club Championship

Oct 18, 202535 min

Ep 247I thought it said "The Nerd"

Sean, John, Stef, Steve and Craig talk about the Herd Autumn Race Experience on Seaside Sprint, Herd Beginner racing on Fan Flats, Flatland Loop as the Stampede challenge, and at least the normal amount of side tangent waffling.

Oct 11, 202547 min

Ep 246It's Fall, time to burn some good will to stay warm....

We change the cast a couple of times during the recording, but overall Craig, Stef, John, Steve & Sean all appear as we talk about the annual "finish doesn't matter.... much" H.A.R.E. race, complain about Zwift's paint job implementation, what they're doing with ZRS, and most importantly, why were we all using Strava anyway?

Oct 3, 20251h 4m

Ep 245Oh No! Anyway...

Steve, Stef, John & Craig chat about HARE on Volcano Circuit, HBR on Tick Tock, and the big news that Zwift isn't doing Elite racing this years.

Sep 26, 20251h 5m

Ep 244So Happy About It

Brent, Sean, John, Steve and Craig talk about the Downtown Eruption H.A.R.E. race and all of its madness, how much Steve likes 2 Bridges Loop, and our comments on the week 1 issues with ZRL.

Sep 19, 202540 min

Ep 243OK on my Own

John, Sean, Stef, Craig & Steve discuss the 20 (!) km individual time trial that is this week's stage of the Herd Autumn Race Experience (HARE) , HBR is also flat this week, the TTT first stage for ZRL is slightly less flat, and we think we like the click v2.

Sep 12, 202544 min

Ep 242Alpe & News Overload

HSRL finale climbs the Alpe, and Zwift attempt to overwhelm us with news. Wine makes a return after a break.

Sep 6, 20251h 13m

Ep 241That is a Massive Can

Stef, John & Craig discuss HSRL on Hell of the North, HBR on Tick Tock and next month's Stampede. The News includes a new wheelset and a useful browser plugin for ZwiftPower that somehow escaped Zwift Insider's Eric Schlange's notice all year.

Aug 30, 20251h 6m

Ep 240Blame (Air) Canada

A cast of many as Brent, Sean, John, Stef, Steve and Craig talk about crit city HSRL, Two Bridges, options for September Stampede, upcoming ZRL and how the universe has disappointed us this week.

Aug 23, 202557 min

Ep 239Think of the Parameters!

Brent, John, Stef, Sean & Craig talk about HSRL on Neokyo All Nighter, Park Perimeter for HBR, how much fun Mountain Mash is, along with Pack Dynamics 5, ZRS & bike choice....

Aug 8, 202549 min

Ep 238Eight Months

Steve, Stef & John come together for a surprisingly concise Tron... What can you accomplish in 8 months?

Aug 1, 202525 min

Ep 237Do the Macaron-a

John, Stef & Craig talk about all the many opportunities to race Macaron & John's experience in race 1 of HSRL (And it counted for Stampede Challenge!) Douce France for HBR, a little talk about the new season schedule for this round of HSRL and a free-form around the horn.

Jul 19, 202551 min

Ep 236Sorry, tollbooth.

Steve, Sean, John & Stef, with Craig at the end of a long tunnel, talk about a long HSRL route in Shisa Shakedown, HBR, announce the Stampede Challenge and talk about things that turned out better than we expected a week ago.

Jul 12, 202532 min

Ep 235Goodbye Bike Recommendations...

Steve and Craig were successful in recording a very late Tron on a busy week for the whole crew. We talk Scotland Smash HSRL (hey, there are still 2 timeslots left), Richmond Flat Roads HBR, promise to get moving on the Stampede Challenge for July by next weekend, and complain about overdog equipment.

Jul 5, 202525 min

Ep 234We've never seen Eric and Ozzy in the same room

Steve, Sean, John, Stef & Craig talk about this week's HSRL on Innsbruck UCI with the spicy climb, lots of news with real and virtual hardware and are Zwift's road construction crews getting better or worse?

Jun 28, 20251h 4m

Ep 233Maybe Upgrades AND Up Grades are both okay

Sean, John, Stef and Craig talk about LaGuardia After Party HSRL, HBR on Innsbruckring, always more talk about Bologna. In The News, some Tacx trainers now support virtual shifting and Race Mode, and TTT and ZRL races will both stop neutralizing bike upgrades. We all discuss what we've been doing for upgrades.

Jun 21, 202558 min

Ep 232I'm going to have to try to finish this race fast so I can watch the hockey game....

Steve, Stef & Craig do a last-minute Tron when they're all tired. Talk about HSRL on Triple Twist, HBR, DO THE CLIMBER's GAMBIT CHALLENGE ON BOLGONA for goodness sake, and talk about recovery and killing time. Sorry this one was late.

Jun 15, 202526 min

Ep 231Bon Voyage Present & Bike Swaps Past & Future...

Craig, John & Stef talk about HSRL on Bon Voyage, Park Perimeter for HBR, Climber's Gambit challenge, and in the news - gravel bikes matter again!

Jun 7, 202549 min

Ep 230Electric Circus?

Marjolein, Brent, Stef, Sean, John & Craig climb in the crowded Pink Tron bus to talk about London Uprising for HSRL, shows that were on Canadian cable TV in the '90s & HBR, More Bologna, and how to deal with heat.

May 31, 202557 min

Ep 229New Overtraining Symptom Unlocked! Show #229

Sean, John, Stef and Craig talk about Bologna as the prologue for this 8 week season of HSRL, and discuss overtraining when it turns out Craig's heart rate monitor wasn't malfunctioning!

May 24, 202538 min

Ep 228Business With Pleasure

This week we chat about the newly announced ZRL Summer Showdown, how we balance cycling with other life pressures (hint: just lose your job and/or social obligations), a preview of the next round of HSRL, as well as the week in Herd Racing.

May 17, 202547 min

Ep 227Not as Bad as you Feared

New marketing slogan for HSRL - 2 laps of Chain Chomper is actually more reasonable than it looks. Craig, John & Stef also discuss a pretty big HBR route, Intro to Racing group rides, and what we're doing for upgrades...

May 9, 202549 min

Ep 226Ding Ding!

It's a Crit City - palooza in Herd Racing this weekend. John, Brent, Sean, Craig and Stef also talk about how to integrate commuting with training and some other little things, plus women's only age-group racing in "the news"

May 3, 202548 min

Ep 225Beginner Tron

First-timer on the Tron Nate Trachta talks Herd Beginner Racing and upcoming rides with Steve, Steph and Craig.

Apr 26, 202555 min