Back in October I bought a Wahoo Kickr and Wahoo Kickr Climb secondhand from someone on Ebay for about half of their new prices.
The Wahoo Kickr Climb came with a few parts missing so I contacted Wahoo customer support and arranged for them to send me some replacements.
I also needed a different cassette for the Wahoo Kickr as it came with a 12 speed set and none of my bikes have shifters that can manage more than 8.
The new cassette came from Decathlon and a set of tools for changing cassettes, cranks, etc came from Ebay.
Once everything was finally capable of being setup and connected I did my first ride on RGT Cycling, performing a few laps of the Canary Warf segment for a total of 15km. however I was somewhat unimpressed with the available free offerings so decided to have a look at Zwift instead.
Since my son was also interested in riding and Zwift is free for under 18s, I ultimately decided to sign us both up.
I also found a cheap second hand 16 speed road bike for my son on Ebay that was only a few miles away and decided to use that on the Wahoo Kickr.
My first ride on Zwift was on 19 November and was the ‘Flat Route‘ which is 10.3km with a 0.5km lead in with a total elevation of 54m, I completed this in 21:42.
I then did just over a lap of the Volcano Circuit which is 4.1km with a 1.3km lead in and 17m of elevation, I completed 5.86km and 28m of elevation in 12:50 before being called for dinner.
My next ride on 20 November was for 10 laps of the Volcano Circuit for a total of 42.27km and 211m of elevation in a time of 1:47:15, with a best time of 9:09 for a circuit.
Dark Horse Rowing was doing a daily challenge called ‘Rowvember’ that I decided to sign up for, although I started a couple of days late, they had a few issues with sending out some of the daily details, so it worked out well for me, I was just doing them all a couple of days behind.
Set a new 2K PB on 4th November as part of one of the ‘Rowvember’ challenges at 7:45.8, but it was an interval, so does not count as a ranked workout.
On the 16th November I passed my first million metres on the RowERG, which entitled me to a free t-shirt, a pin and also a certificate.
Towards the end of the month, Dark Horse Rowing had a Black Friday special for membership of ‘The Crew’ that I decided to take up for a year’s membership
Concept 2 also started their Holiday Challenge on the 24th, which is another team challenge for total metres rowed.
During the month of November I managed a total of 99 hours of exercise, walked 398km climbed 293 flights of stairs, cycled 74km and rowed 288km.
By the end of the month my weight was 14 Stone 11lb (207lb/94kg), a loss of 7lb (3.1kg).