Welcome back to Zwift and the ZRL!

It’s fall.

And you know what that means. Yes, back to school. Yes, red leaves and shorter days. But also for some of us it’s back to indoor bike riding and racing.

It’s not too cold to ride outside, obviously, but we’re running out of after work light.

So I’ve taken the Zwift bike down off the wall, and set it up in front of the big screen, ready for an autumn of Zwifting.

Each summer I say I’ll occasionally ride indoors on Zwift and I decide not to put my membership on hold. But the truth is it’s too warm in the evenings even with a fan to ride inside during the summer months.

Here are my last Zwift rides in early June.

So it’s been three months.

What’s new in the bike room?

Boo!

We’re cat sitting one the adult kid’s cats for a bit. Boo hangs out in our back room for snuggles, TV watching, and now indoor bike racing.

But it wasn’t Boo who shredded the mat under my bike. That was the previous visiting cats, Moon and Louie.

So Sunday night we had to do a race to secure our category in Zwift. That’s to make sure we’re still D riders. What’s the worry? Sandbagging! Winning by racing in a lower category so you’ll be sure to win.