The Pink Tron

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.

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!     

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.

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...

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"

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

Brent, Sean, John, Steve, Stef & Craig talk HSRL, a new HBR course Climber's Gambit Challenge and stuff we'd like to put in the game.

Brent, Craig, Sean, Stef, Steve and John discuss HSRL, new roads in France, and inter-dimensional squirrels.

Marjolein gives the rest of us all the low-down on what's happening in Majorca with all the virtual riders there. Sean, Stef, Craig, & Marjolein discuss Herd Racing, imminent return of HSRL, What's new this season on Zwift dominates the News, and we run out of time before throwing it around the horn.

Brent, John, Steve and Stef discuss the week in Herd Racing, new data on upgrades, updates to ZRacing and the upcoming HSRL schedule.

Sean, John, Stef and Craig talk about HWR, HBR, Spring Chickens & Dirt Racing Series before getting down to brass tacks about all the bike changes in-game.

This week we talk about the week in Herd Racing, the upcoming changes to bike and wheel aerodynamics, and which of the Big Spin prizes we want to win.

There are so many things going on right now! Series galore! We discuss the week in Herd Racing, along with the newly announced fourth challenge and how we decide which of the many current series to prioritize in a given week.

We chat about the week in Herd Racing, including the Return of No Spring Chickens and a new monthly Stampede Challenge, as well as Pedal Games, The Big Spin (and the most important bike in the game), and our dream bikes to add to the game.

This week we chat about the week in Herd Racing, the Zwift Games (along with other upcoming series including Iceni, ECRO, and DRS), the potential for Zwift to bring results in house to Zwift.com, the Tron Power Stance, and ways that bikes bring us together.

This week we gather to talk the week in Herd Racing, before being sidetracked by TrainerRoad and the silliness(?) of riding with both a workout app and Zwift open concurrently, discussing this week's ZRL race and the rash of upgrades, and finishing with our Valentine's.

We discuss the week in Herd Racing, as well as the new Herd kits, one of the hosts hitting level 100, the Dirt Racing Series, and some training tips to prevent stagnation (and whether that should even be the goal).

We discuss the newly trimmed down week in Herd Racing, including the new monthly Stampede Challenge, as well as bouncing around some ideas of things we'd like to be shown in game, on the Zwift website, or even in the companion app. Bike computer replacement in the companion app anyone?

Taking a breath after the Omnium, we get back to our old routine of talking through 1) the week in Herd Racing, which this week focuses on Herd Winter Racing and Herd Beginner Racing, 2) some Zwift news, including some chat about the silly (to be kind) looking Elite Square, and 3) a discussion of which silly little things would be on our Zwift wishlists.

Steve, Craig, Stef and Brent do a quick recap of the Herd Omnium 2025. Some whining, some laughing, some cake. And all of us very, very tired. Let us all know how your omnium experience went in the comments!

We do a deep dive on the weekend's Omnium, including race by race analysis and overall planning, pacing, and recovery advice. Who else is ready to rumble?

The Herd Omnium 2025 is coming the weekend of Jan 18-19, and the Pink Tron crew is excited. We talk through the silliness that awaits. Go sign up. Do it. Now! :) We also discuss changes to pack dynamics, route time estimation, and the week in Herd Racing.

We review the outgoing year, highlighting our favorite Zwift developments from 2024 before going through our annual zResolutions.

This one kind of got away from us. This was probably the first time that we were googling movie releases during the episode, and definitely the first one where Brent gave his thoughts on the Rings of Power show. This was our popcorn peloton show. We also talked about how the Festive 500 is going, and whether anybody got any good cycling gifts for the holidays.

We get together to chat about the week in Herd Racing, updates to the ZRS bands, and our annual Zwiftmas Zwishlists.

The crew gets together to chat about the week in Herd Racing, including a Herd rider's race course in the WTRL course competition, the impending cull of zombie races which will affect many of the Herd Racing time slots, and a cheeky discussion of weight doping for fun (verdict: don't do it, please!)

Craig, Steve, John and Brent chat about this week in Herd racing as well as more ZRS changes and what types of crazy challenges that Marjolein might be "encouraged" to put on during the Christmas Winter-val (we're making it a thing!) in HWR. Drop your thoughts about what types of events you'd like to see in the comments!

This week we talk about our most surprising Zwift celebrity sightings, our plans for a big December, and additional upcoming changes to Zwift Racing Score, in addition to the week in Herd Racing.

We get together to chat about how confusing the Flamme Rouge Racing team event was, Strava's big, bad decision, and the week in Herd Racing.

This week we get together to chat about how to get through racing a stage race (hint, recovery and nutrition are important), what we think of the Jarvis island update, Zwift's bike testing and the future upshot for racing, as well as our TTT bug-a-boos...in addition to the weekly roundup of Herd races!

This week on a very special episode of the Pink Tron (they're all special, though, this one's just as special as all the others), we discuss whether we'd like to ride with Eric Min in Mallorca or whether we'd be too worried about Zwifters' bike handling on mountain roads, whether we think the updates to the Zwift Racing Score algorithm are a step in the right direction, whether the new Zwift Camp sounds like what Zwift Academy should be, and what the silliest thing we've skipped in order to Zwift is...along with the week in Herd Racing.

This week Steve, Stef, John and Brent chat about the new Zwift updates letting us sort our bikes, trainer troubles (including the Wahoo updates) and all the weeks Herd races. And of course, what we are drinking! Thanks for listening.

This week we discuss what setup we'd suggest for a total beginner - more suggestions welcome! Also, the new community course selected for series 2 of ZRL, the Herd takeover of Zwift Community Races, how we're doing on the Zwift Club Challenge, and a check in on the week in Herd Racing.

This week Brent, Sean, Chris, Stef, John and special guest Nathan Trachta talk about the start of everyone's favourite no categories Zwift scratch racing series - Herd Winter Racing! Nate gives us the low down on some new Herd Beginner Racing categories. We talk a bit about the mysterious thing growing up from the depths in Watopia and our favourites out of proposed new routes for ZRL Season 2. Plus the usual Herd racing round up. Moo!

It's a big crew in ahead of a big final weekend in the Herd Summer Racing Series. We discuss all the Herd racing events this week, delve far too deep into the news about Zwift Racing Score, hear about a controversial new form of sandbagging from John before wrapping up by sharing mechanical woes from our cycling journeys...  

This week we chat about the upcoming Community Racing Festival, the ongoing Herd Club Challenge, and the introduction of Zwift Racing Score as the primary categorization tool (along with the potential drawbacks). We once again try to convince Brent to Everest, this time in response to a rant about XP. Also, apparently it's possible to hack into Shimano Di2 shifting, and now we wait for a mass mechanical in a pro race. All this in addition to the weekly discussion of the Herd Racing schedule.

This week we discuss the introduction of Zwift Racing Score more broadly across the platform, VR glasses as the future of Zwift, a Metallica whiskey pairing, and Brent's inevitable Everesting failure, along with the week in Herd Racing (including strategy talk for the week's Climber's Gambit inspired HSRL race).

This week we've got a full house, and we chat like it. Among the topics: How cool is it that there's a Zwift Play Konami Code? How did we like the ZRL scoring system? What's the low hanging fruit for making Zwift a better racing game? How much time did Sean spend on his cocktail? We also chat about the week in Herd Racing, in particular this week's HSRL on Champs Elysees.

This week on The Pink Tron, Sean forgets the sweaty transition, so Brent fills in with an amazing feat of precognition, psychically divining how the episode ends...Also, we chat about the new ZRL points race points distribution and how it will affect riders' motivations as well as discussing the week in Herd Racing.

We audition a new format this week, leaning more into the having a chat side with less emphasis on going in depth into each of the week's Herd races. This week, Brent rants about free trade, Steve is interested in where dogs use the bathroom, and John tries a new mushroom beverage with limited success. 

Steve has to run off to see a movie (Logan, I think it was), so we quickly get to a discussion of riding with Herd friends, and the low bar of entry to community on Zwift and particularly why the Herd is quite welcoming. We do, as always, discuss the week in Herd Racing, including a return to standard HSRL scoring on Casse Pattes.

This week on the Pink Tron we look forward to a new series of HSRL, and back at each of our entries into the Herd Racing family and at some HSRL series' past. We also discuss the rest of the week in Herd Racing.

In honor of SD Worx unbelievable team tactics in the Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift, we discuss how team tactics can go right or very very wrong in Zwift racing, and what tactical approaches annoy the hell out of us! We also discuss the week in Herd Racing, including a Tiny Race style HSRL this week.

This week the PT crew tries their hand at course design with the ZRL community designed race course in mind. We develop courses we'd like to see for Watopia, Makuri, Scotland, and France. Let us know what you'd like to race! Also, we discuss the week in Herd Racing, with a long HSRL race on Itza Party.

Sean, Stef, John and Brent (along with a racing Chris!) go through the week  of Herd Racing. We follow up with a brief chat about the newly announced next season of Zwift Racing League and the courses that have been announced. (Note that none of us had seen the recent news about the community course selection!)

This week we consider new event ideas that may some day make their way into the Herd Racing rotation, including a non-pen/non-event idea that we were all pretty excited about. Additionally, we chat about the week in Herd Racing, including this week's scratch race on the relatively new Glyph Heights route.

Coming back after a layoff can be daunting, especially if you feel like you've lost considerable fitness due to illness, vacation, or simply inactivity. We discuss some of the right ways and wrong ways to get back to it, although Brent's wrong ay seems to have been especially effective. We also, as always, discuss the week in Herd Racing.

This week Nate, Steve and Brent chat about the week in Herd Racing including week 1 in both the new series of Stampede and HSRL. If you don't know what week 1 in HSRL is, there's a big clue in the title! Then we chat a bit about experience with Herd Racing Score, Chasing Yellow and a bit about new tech announcements of interest to indoor cyclists.  DC Rainmaker on new Jet Black Victory trainer: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/07/jetblack-victory-trainer.html DC Rainmaker on Elite Square Smart Bike: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/07/elites-square-avanti-justo2-smart-trainers-hands-on.html Steve's picture of Bologna: https://viciouscycle.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/screenshot-2022-12-21-192553.jpg

On this episode, Steve, Chris, Sean and Brent talk about the week of Herd Racing, how to manage sweaty situations as the weather warms up, some experiences with Zwift Racing Score and their experiences in the Chasing Yellow series. Also, what we've been drinking. 

Chris tries a Zwift workout plan, Brent considers riding the Chasing Yellow series, and we discuss the reemergence of the Zwift Racing Score, including its inclusion in Herd Beginner Racing. Additionally, we discuss the week in Herd Racing.

John and the group ponder the Zwift Ride, Sean tries out IndieVelo, and Chris waxes, along with the week in Herd racing including Three Little Sisters as the Little Sister of Itza Party.