Welcome to 2025! New year, new routes, same suffering.
This weekend we’ll be kicking off the new year on Watopia’s Shorelines and Summits loop. A little something for everyone. Hope to see you Saturday!
Sign-up link HERE.
[We ride most Knight Rides banded, meaning so long as you’re pedaling, you’ll stay with the group. You don’t have to be a Knight to ride - all are welcome!]
#IWBMATTKYT
#morethanyou
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Hope to “see” a lot of you Sufferlandrian Zwifters on the Knight Ride this Saturday, January 4. Start 2025 by riding with your CoS and KoS pals! Thanks to @CPT_A , Sir Ian, for getting this ride series organized and growing in popularity. For us in the inhospitable Northern climates it has become a virtual, weekend club ride.
Well I, for one, enjoyed that, despite my early equipment failures. Things got a little spicy - something for everyone!
Thanks to everyone who came out this weekend - great turnout! Hope you had a good time.
Stay tuned for next week’s Knight Ride. Will be posted NLT Wednesday.
As did I…had some resistance issues early on with the resistance lagging. Hate it when you’re going down hill and it keeps getting harder.
Very healthy number of CoS and KoS gathered for the first club ride of 2025. Prominent at the front on the first 20 miles were Sir Alan Montgomery, Sir Darryl, Sir Ruben Medina, Sir Ian, CoS Bránn Mac Finnchad, CoS Tina and CoS Chris.
Great battles for the five sprints on the route. The Radio Tower KOM climb was the territory of CoS Brann with help from Sir Ruben on the last third of the ascent. Once the summit was crested Sir Ian Lurie and CoS Tom Cramer pulled the group to 57 mph as we screamed downhill. All that was left was the rolling 5 miles to the finish, which saw another dog-eat-dog sprint for the line!
For Sufferlandrians who use Zwift, you are all welcome to join the Knights of Sufferlandria KoS club in Zwift Companion. You can do the Knight Rides together with us whether you are a Citizen or Knight of Sufferlandria. Once you join the club you will receive alerts about upcoming club rides. At this time there are 150 of us in the club. The more, the merrier!
So got to climb a volcano with an olympic gold medalist today in Zwift. THAT doesn’t happen every day!
(Thanks Sammie!)
Does the little 
indicate they’re the real deal?
Yes, that’s the “verified” mark, like in other social media. All the pros and “significant” people have them. Get their own kit and bikes, too…
(CPT A bike?)
Wahoo@#$% Tour Fondo route is posted. No further comment.
I AM happy to report that we got our wish: the March 1st stage 7 Alpe d’Huez would merge REALLY well into a Knight Ride!
Details to follow as we get closer to the date.
I’ll join this one if it kills me, which it might.
Who’s up for a little something different this week? I have an idea and would like to try something out we haven’t done yet: GROUP WORKOUTS.
We’re going to try Zwift’s Volcano workout which kinda/sorta reminds me of The Downward Spiral. A fitting effort, I think, as it was Sufferfest’s FIRST video, and was one of the stages of the FIRST Tour of Sufferlandria.
For a little extra fun, let’s call it retro week on the Knight Ride! Kit out in your most classic look and ride - whatever you can put together (or go w the classic Sufferlandrian red/white/black kit).
We’ll see how this goes! Sign-up link HERE.
[If you’ve not done a group workout in Zwift before, everyone stays together, but your effort is individualized to your FTP, so make sure that is set properly! You can make the workout as challenging or not for YOU by adjusting the intensity % in Zwift, similar to Systm.]
How was the workout session?
And belated congrats to @Brann_Mac_Finnchad for “winning” our end of year Knight Ride Crits. The Knight Ride will hereby sponsor his @#$% Tour entry…
hehe. Nice! You ought to join the National squad Cap’n Sir. We could use all the help we can get to show The Company what’s what, who’s who, and other words with w that don’t include THAT word 
It’s UCI WorldTour opening weekend!
For this week’s Knight Ride we’re going to celebrate the WorldTour kickoff with the opening stage of the Women’s Tour Down Under, by…going to London?
OK, bear with me - this made sense in my head. We’re going to ride the Triple Loops route to “enjoy” some climbing, with a profile similar to the first stage of the TdU.
Here’s our route…
Here’s Stage 1 of the TdU…
Kinda sorta similar, right? I’M SORRY THERE IS NO AUSTRALIA SERVER! Ok…maybe I’m trying too hard here.
Anyway, hope to see you Saturday! Sign-up link HERE.
so a 30 minute easy spin with Sir @Medina81 pulling us along at 8 w/kg?
