dude, that’s all very good and thanks for the motivation

Your front camera is awesome. It must have a gyroscope; antivibration device. Why? Based on your ride I don't see bumpiness!

Nice Video! Curious. Any recommendations for tent camping, or hotel stay during cycling trip. Thank you !

Good luck on your goals! I will hopefully see you on Zwift again!

Totally missed this one even though I had it marked to notify me. I was suffering on Lutscher in Innsbruck and would have loved the banter with you.

Great update! Sounds like a great plan, good to be adding in the other activity other than just cycling! The strength training is so important. I enjoy having your videos back, lol though I keep just missing the livestreams by just minutes 🤣😬

Nice video! You really don’t need to thank people all the time unless you’re Canadian

Hey Eric, I'm currently doing this plan and while my FTP is way lower than yours, its giving me good discipline and workouts. I'm doing one workout every day, so maximising the sessions. Best of luck on your journey, see you on Zwift!

Good luck this year, so many recreational cyclists miss the gym bit.

Congrats on the three week streak. Just remember, two cyclists + same route + same direction = RACE!

Thanks for the update Eric. I like the background. that's what it looks like when you train. and so we're right in the middle of your training. I wish you continued success and look forward to seeing your progress.

Lets go Eric! Keep focus!

Everything is photogenic 😁

Good luck Eric 🍀👍i have only one Fitness goal in 2025 10.000 KM on the bike ( in and outdoor together) . 80 % of my rides are Slow ( Zone 2 ) , the rest is all out 😊ps my last year Performance was 8000 KM starting First of may After a very Heavy pneumonia in february…Health is everything 🤚

Eric we're on a similar journey. I find exercise and eating well go hand in hand. If I'm not exercising, I'm not eating right. 10 years ago, I stopped eating dairy not just because of cheese, hmmm cheese, all dairy, let's say I might have been a chocoholic 🤫

Hi Eric. Tim here, I did my first bit of zwifting today. It's like learning a new language.

Was it February or March when you did your ride. How many miles were on public roads in total. I know SH 50 remains a mess.

Good to see you back Buddy. Thou in reality you prob not been anywhere

Awesome to see you back!

It’s great to see you back on YT and on Strava. I admire your determination and know you’ll get the fitness back. You’ve already made inroads by getting back in the saddle and getting those miles in. Keep it going and I look forward to watching your progress.

Great vid. I wanna do it.

awesome effort well done

hey, welcome back. I will be off the bike soon for a while but it is always there when you come back. And just be what you are when you are.

Hi there, I'm in the middle of week 5 and yesterday did my first Threshold development workout. I was ok for the first 2 or 3 intervals at my estimated FTP but the last interval at 100rpm for the entire 4 minutes I was repeating the mantra "I can do it" to keep me going. I did an FTP ramp test to start with which gave me 2.1 watts per kg but in week 1 I decided to reduce it to 2 watts per kg. I am now trying to decide whether to repeat the FTP Builder twice more or switch to the 12 week Build Me Up plan. After 4 years off the bike I have more room for improvement than a fit athlete and so guess the FTP Builder twice more will improve my FTP more than if I did the 12 week plan which I assume is for fitter cyclists who are chasing smaller gains than I can make as an unfit person. I then hope in the spring and summer I can then aspire to multi day or multi week bike-packing trips. As a generally unfit middle aged man I have never felt fitter than in 2019 after I had completed a 10 week bike-packing trip ... and I lost a stone of excess weight which I now in 2025 after a few years of too much comfort eating need to loose again unless I visit the shops to buy bigger clothing. I can't recommend too much getting into bike packing if time is available to do it and prepping and doing it is great for fitness. But like you I finally bit the bullet and purchased a smart trainer because I believe I can improve more quickly than if I continued doing 2 or 3 hour rides 2 or 3 times a week during the winter. Yes, peddling at 85-105 rpm has been an eye opener for me. I hope it will translate into outdoors cycling in the spring and summer where my average rpm was typically 70rpm last autumn. I am indeed 'enjoying' the plan. My few issues with it as a flat-bar cyclists is it seems to ignore flat-bar and assumes drop bars in a few intervals. I also found doing 30sec intervals standing far more difficult than when on the road when I have no problem standing when going up hill at lower cadence. The reason is that on the road I stand when the hills are very steep and so the resistance to peddling very high and the cadence is low. But in the FTP Builder Plan it asks to switch to standing for just 30seconds at a very low power which translates to very low resistance to peddling which means drastically reducing the gearing which means switching out of erg mode and shifting the (virtual) gears which I found required 10-15 seconds of the 30 second interval. Therefore I sometimes ignored the prompt to stand and I always ignored the prompt to go into a aero position as I had flat bars. I also had a massive issue with hand pain than I have never experienced on the road. It took quite a bit of tinkering with saddle height and saddle position and orientation away from how I have it on the road. I found pain was somewhat reduced by slightly lowering the saddle and very slightly titling the saddle upwards from horizontal. Did you have any hand pain issues specific to indoor cycling? Have you done The Grade on Zwift? Apparently is a great quick test of FTP as the climb gives an FTP estimate after the climb. So I plan to do the plan twice more in the winter/summer unless I switch to the 12 week Build Me Up plan.

Looking forward to this ride soon! Awesome and helpful video!

the panic is here , aaah 110 rpm , aaah 390 w , (remember when i told you , that Lavender Unicorn and Emilys Short Mix would be the hardest for you , i did both of them, back in the days ,) , kaboom you did it

Zwift insider has a good checklist that is current with the newest routes.

Hi Eric, Tim here, I've enjoyed catching up on your videos. I'm hoping to start zwifting in the next few days. I've been off the bike for 3 months now. Crashed the bike and broke the arm. I'm at the age and just want some fitness. I'm looking forward to seeing you get back to a level of fitness you're happy with. It's always been a battle for me in finding the balance, I'm either doing up to 15 hours a week or nothing. I've got a funny feeling once I get my fitness back, I might become a zwift addict.

That's a crazy ride.

Great review, thank you. I see the 'cat' bombed your video! 🤣

Thank you

Awesome ride. I'm gonna ride C2C next month in February using 28mm tires. I have ridden C2C a couple of times using a touring bike but at this time it's gonna be just a pure ride, just as you did. You got a flat that's bummer but that can happen any time. I hope I can avoid that. You saw a bear, wow. You did a great job with editing, thanks for the video 👍

Have you tried cycling on TrainingPeaks Virtual yet?

This is awesome I want to do this finally got a bike that is able to take this adventure on I will have to look up a route unless you are willing to share thank you for sharing your journey would be cool if there is camping along the way to spend more time in nature

Very cool and honest review 😊 keep it on

43 year old dude from Canada overweight by a similar amount! Keep riding and working! Love the channel

Well, my workout didn't... Well, work out as about just after the first Zone 4 segment my back wheel decided it liked freewheeling so much it wanted to do it in both directions :/

Glad to see you back Eric!

Sup bro I'm doing the same work out

Welcome Back! Totally understand where you're coming from with the pride thing, sometimes the pressure of having a channel gets a bit much. Good luck in getting all the fitness back, it'll definitely come back quickly! Can't believe it's been 2 years since you started the channel, time really flies eh

Welcome back Eric! 2025 Bib video update soon?

Another step towards the come back complete! 💪 Keep it going, Eric! 👊

Great to see someone giving training into fitness a go 😉 Hopefully, this will set a good example to others, Erik 💪 🚴 (but of course, racing is the fun bit 😜)

ticked off another one , good job , sometimes the pep talk , not the advises , in the workouts are quite comical

These are super short workouts. I rarely look at the workout series because I'm racing most days. There always seems to be another race series to join. Getting ready for FRR, then ZRL, then back to FRR and ZRL. Oh and ladder racing too. LOL

Good workout! I haven’t done any of the training plans because they are too rigid in the structure and don’t accommodate multi sports for running, cycling, and strength training. I wish one could change the schedule of the plans.

Glad to see you back! I enjoy your videos and your journey! One of the ultra runners I follow has a saying that goes “Something is better than nothing, done is better than perfect” and I think of that every day!

Welcome back Eric. 👊

Welcome back!! 🙌 you inspired me one year ago, and still does!

Missed you live today. Zwift has evolved a bit this last year. Keep up the good work