Alpe Du Zwift sub 1hr Breakdown | Every corner time and full ride

[@samhaacke]

Well done Mark! I did my first sub 60 this morning....56:57 😅👍...very happy!

[@calendar9497]

Today I finally made it - and it was again you who made me try it again and again and again - AdZ 59:39. Last August I was just shy of 100kg (at 180cm) and started, now down to 77kg. While Zwift was great at first, soon I was disoriented. Your Videos gave me exactly what I needed. See, I'm 33, second child on the way, got my masters while changing job from financial advisor to process manager and got out of shape (bad excuse, but there might be worse). I'm in the best shape of my life, going for the Vienna City Marathon this year and all of this wouldn't have been possible without the sort of motivation your content gives. Sure, I might have found something similar, or maybe not, but that doesn't really matter, as doesn't matter that there might have been another Dwayne Johnson or Eliud Kipchoge. The thing that moves me most in all of life, emotionally, is when someone pinches their eyebrows and just goes all out, overcoming all those doubts, fears and uneasy impression one gets, when stepping outside the comfort zone. I don't know how successful YT is for you, financially speaking, but given that there are other dimensions of success in life, which I am highly certain there are, what you did and do is just damn amazing. Maybe this could help you out on a rainy day. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart!

[@MarkLewisfitness]

ONLY of interest if you want to climb Alpe Du Zwift! All the corners are here - 3:59 The full ride starts here - 7:39

[@phillmuz5184]

I did it yesterday in my best time of 1 hour 16mins so definitely going to try and chase you on it, cant see me gaining that much time, more training needed, but hopefully get closer to the hour. Thanks for sharing.

[@jeffcreed2539]

Thats cause your an honest rider probably...I have caught a bunch of people on here cheating. One guy that looked 180 pounds put he was 140 so it causes the watts aka bike speed to increase ....You can calculate this with the AVG Watts and and final KG per watt and figure their weight...Caught one Cat A race where all the top 10 in the race somehow were ALL under 140 pounds....I seen one guy with a belly listed at 130 pounds, he killed The Alpe De Swift at under 1 hour.

[@futureofinsurance]

Mark, this video was both inspiring and instructional. I just did the Alpe for the first time, and came in at 57:02.2 weighing 86.1kg. I know I would have been over an hour if not for the mental prep and management I was able to do with your guidance.

[@jgreen116]

I just finished my first climb up Alp Du Zwift. No where near an hour, but if Nixon can climb it, I can climb it. Thanks for the motivation!

[@mikeandmutley9604]

Nice video. I did 56.11 last night on stage 2 of tdz. I start off steady and build up as I progress, building from 3 to 3.2 wkg upto 5wkg intervals. I use other riders as pace markers I’m 55 and 85kg. Zwift level 41

[@Hutepilo]

Congrats to 30k, your videos are always great motivation thanks. Keep it up

[@SarahHorner]

As a slow newbie on Zwift this was so helpful. Gives me a great perspective on Katie Kookaburra times and the Alpe du Zwift route. I’ll be looking out for you whizzing past me!

[@anthonyoliver2639]

After several recce rides around 70 - 75 mins I did a full gas effort this week, managed 59.25. I found pushing a lower harder cadence worked best. I appear to slack off a bit much on the easier bends and corners. I'm grafting towards Tron bike by smashing road to sky every week. Having spent a years riding without the Everest challenge selected, my hard earned climbing has not counted towards getting the concept bike. Your posts are helpful & funny, keep it up Influencing does work, I now have an Oura ring & a Wahoo headwind; v happy with both Good luck with Hyrox, I think you're suited to it. Entry fees are a bit steep mind

[@MarkLewisfitness]

59:25 is awesome. That last couple of minutes of pushing to get under 60 must’ve been brilliant. It’s way cooler to just scrape under your target then get it easily 😁

[@ryanmorin6430]

Interesting - higher cadences are superior as far as mechanical efficiency goes, but lower cadence seems to keep heart rate down. whatever works!

[@BoomsRiddico4868]

My current pb is 65mins so this is a great help to best this and go sub 60 before end of spring. Thanks again

[@BarryJHoffman]

Your videos are getting better and better. Your pace of talking and humor are so original. Thanks for posting this ride the way you did to help others. I'm not real sure of any of the technical stuff you said but maybe it will make sense to me one day when I ride ADZ. Cheers from Long Island.

[@NaturalElites]

Was riding up ADZ the other day (118kg), was absolutely flying... rocketing past people 300w, 500w, 800w. Then it dawned upon me that my trainer had stopped changing the resistance! Fuming! I stopped after turn 20 so as not to demoralise anymore poor folks only 10mins in and feeling the burn! Well done... Great time! Keep doing it for the big (ger) guys! 👍 💪

[@lankyanky48]

Congrats Mark, great time 👍😀

[@leoncameron895]

damn, I don't ride or have a zwift but this video has really motivated me to avoid the sweaty, hard & painful road riding & go buy a mountain bike instead. Cheers mark.

[@Cathy_MidwestHome_Hens]

My current AdZ PR is 1:05:39 - not too far from your previous PR before this video!! Yay!! I’m also only 59kg so that’s my advantage

[@BestSpamUnitedFC]

congrats on 30k Mark

[@tiagoafonso7793]

Great effort Mark! Did it today, but I got the corner times from a zwift forum and only realised the times could not be correct at around corner 6 and by then I was complitly gasped. Still managed a 59:36.

[@chrisvanbuggenum871]

I always have no idea what time i need to do on each corner, I'm always riding completely blind. This should be a useful video to help me pace it a bit better next time. Thanks.

[@ianmacnz9045]

You beast...love the sprint at the end.

[@MarkLewisfitness]

Gotta sprint when you see the banner 😂👍🏼

[@leedixon2113]

I knew you'd come back with Ferris at the end! LOL

[@MarkLewisfitness]

Gotta reward those that go and look to see 😂👍🏼

[@Cathy_MidwestHome_Hens]

I WISH 😞😥 You’re amazing Mark

[@MegaMarkoni]

My first time 76 minutes, FTP Booster program and a couple of races and today I did it in 60:15 🙃 @ 93kg.

[@rickainley1168]

Thanks Mark, very useful as always. Cheat sheet at the ready !!

[@Chris-dw3xl]

Congrats 💪👍it never gets easier

[@noggintube]

My current PB is 74, so still a fair bit to go. Trouble I have is 3.2 w/kg is above my FTP so I'm screwed trying to do that for an hour. My goal this year is to drop a good wallop of weight (no bad thing) and improve FTP. Hopefully the two will meet at a point I can do it.

[@syrus3k]

I dropped a load of weight recently and it enabled me to do this under an hour without too much trouble. See my other comment on weight loss

[@CarrieJamrogowicz]

I am in the same boat, peak of the bell curve for women my age is 2.9 w/kg and my goal is just to get over that but progress has been very very slow….

[@flame_n]

I've watched your Alpe videos at least twice (the ones with Nixon too!) and wanted to say an extremely big "Thank you!" - yesterday got my 1st sub 60 Alpe du Zwift - 59:07 :D I actually averaged an hour at my FTP to achieve that 😅

[@stewartfeatherstone346]

Even though i didnt watch your climb the first 5 mins of this video was still better than some of the dross i have watched on other channels. A sneaky movie clip too to laugh at.

[@funkyt2436]

Nicely Done Mark! I think I sorta "cheated" the strategy for mine. I just set my ERG to the wattage to sustain 3.2 w/kg the whole way and came in under the wire. Takes a little of the fun out of it though :).

[@mariaklein9533]

I just have to comment about your heart rate though.. you stayed at 165(ish) most of the way and up until the ending where you still pushed even harder! To me that is extremely impressive. Live long friend!

[@mwilko79]

Nice work Mark 👍 need to give this a go sometime 😊

[@DuckRideDuck]

Great Performance, this will help me improve my current time of just under the hour. Thanks Mark, keep up the great work on the Channel. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@PAULPICKLES]

Adverts? Just go KZbin premium. It's so worth it, just to watch Marks well toned physique on Zwify without interruptions.😉 I've chosen to go with a coffee on my lunch break and watch some the pain.😄 Great idea Mark.👏

[@MarkLewisfitness]

Until your comment, I had no idea what KZbin premium was 😂

[@PAULPICKLES]

@@MarkLewisfitness we are the educators!😄

[@leovanduyn2699]

you may not know this because you were most likely focused on your splits, watts, not dying, looping the correct R4 song at the right time....but what were the primary cassette gears (25,28,32) you used on this effort? Just curious because I am skill working on cadence drills (trying to keep between 80-88 rpm) on climbs so I produce a little more power in easier gears and what you used may give me a target gear to focus on. Quite possibly I am overthinking and should just RTDB. Congrats.

[@lizaho246]

Doing alp tomorrow morning...last time I did it I did 1 hour 4 😬😬

[@christiangrosspietsch6278]

Damn, saw you flying by on the last sunday, just managed to give a ride on. Great effort! You sacrificed a better time for beeing such a polite person and replying to the messages during the ride.

[@MarkLewisfitness]

Fans first, results second 😂

[@bazzahead7282]

Great vid, probably. I didn’t finish it cos I’m not a zwifter. See you at hyrox if my calf heals, and my Achilles. If you see a crying man limping, that’s me 👋🏼

[@finnbrown7675]

Would be very interested to see a video of you doing a 2KM row on the C2 machine for time! (2 kilometers is gold standard rowing distance)

[@MarkLewisfitness]

I’ll do one tuesday and stick it on Instagram 👍🏼. I’d guess about 7?????

[@davet003.5]

Hey Mark - Any plans for Mt Ventoux? No corners to time, though. Keep up the great content.

[@HereThereBackAgain]

Thanks buddy! Great work, you killed it!

[@paulwilliams4990]

God damn that’s a great performance right there. My best is 1hr 5min so have a lot of time to shave off yet.

[@cliffclermont]

Still here! noticed you hit the Aero Power Up when you were going 16kph......With my limited understanding of Fluid Dynamics you should have timed it to end on the finished line where you [un-powered uo at the time] were doing 38kph. Sayin'. you may have saved a WHOLE 2 seconds. Being a douche I am. Comes naturally. Nice effort!!

[@fiynnfiynn68]

your video was very help full just finished in 48:53 im 120 pounds or 54 kg and 13 years old

[@MarkLewisfitness]

That’s flying!

[@MichaelMa]

You know you're addicted to AdZ when you watch a video of someone else riding up AdZ... Or someone asks you if you have the LightWeight wheelset and you're like "What's that? Oh I have it. Is it good?"

[@dewidavies7995]

Thanks well done 👏 great video thanks 😊

[@edwarddeane9853]

You should do a video of a PB run of the Ven-Top route (Mont Ventoux/Ventoux KOM), it's even bigger than the Alpe!

[@allongroth7971]

Congrats and thanks for your entertaining and inspiring videos. Question though - do you know what activates the comparison chart on the left screen? Sometimes it shows up, usually I just see the my current workout. Not sure if it’s because I’m slow, not very bright, or both.

[@MarkLewisfitness]

Great question-I had to ask this awhile ago. Basically, only if you have done the climb in the last 30 days, does it show your previous time for that corner. Although interestingly, while you will see it showing my previous corner times for the first 10 corners of this climb-it then disappears after halfway?? No idea why! Also, I should point out that those previous corner times are no guide to anything because they relate to me doing the climb with my dog on my back and using an additional 12 kg of weight into the app!

[@allongroth7971]

@@MarkLewisfitness Haha even with no dog I am far behind you up the Alpe. Explanation makes sense, means I’ll have to do the climb at least every 30 days - good goal!

[@calendar9497]

Improved to 61:04 today, gonna push on harder

[@theyouuser]

Mark on your Zwift ride it shows you start up the mountain and then head back up again. What route is that? The shortest ride I’ve seen is ‘Road to the sky’ but your run looks more time efficient. Any help is appreciated.

[@MarkLewisfitness]

Well spotted 😂 that’s me being lazy….. here’s what I do - log into Zwift, select watopia as the place to ride then look at the list of people it shows already riding there ….. and pick to ride with them! Zwift will drop you right beside then, wherever they are in Watopia. If it turns out they are in the desert, just exit the ride and repeat. It normally takes me 6 or 7 goes to get lucky and get dropped to someone riding the mountain. Once that happens, turn around and roll to the bottom of the hill (if you join somebody near the top, it will take a few minutes to get to the bottom so I often do this long before I am going to do the ride. I will set my rider rolling down the hill and then leave him. When I come back to do the ride later he will have rolled right to the bottom and be ready to go) I should add this is very lazy and means no proper warmup so it is NOT sensible or good advice 😂)

[@theyouuser]

😆 quality mate! I have seen behind the curtain now, no going back.

[@MarkLewisfitness]

@@theyouuser warm ups for babies 😂

[@antsmands]

I see G. Buhler, the Swiss rider was a bit of a rabbit for you.

[@Grumpy_Muppet]

Why Dont I see my PR's on the ADZ?! Done it multiple times, never seen it.

[@Cathy_MidwestHome_Hens]

Are you on strava? It tracks your route & segment history

[@Grumpy_Muppet]

@@Cathy_MidwestHome_Hens But not in-game/zwift

[@syrus3k]

I was literally doing this last night, then I got interrupted with a 'family emergency' - I was well on the way to sub 1hr.. arrg. I almost killed everyone.

[@syrus3k]

vooodoo economics.

[@syrus3k]

Update. 54:57. Although I'm quite sure you can bench about 3x what I can mark 😂

[@syrus3k]

Note that in order to do this I paced myself quite carefully trying to stick over about 260w @ 76kg. I have fairly recently lost almost 10kg which has helped a lot in doing this, and in order to do that I started calorie counting which was a real eye opener and then moved onto a seriously reduced carbohydrate lifestyle. I no longer in general eat bread and I've pretty much stopped eating cereal.. the weight pretty much fell off, it was amazing. Recommended, but then if you watch marks channel you probably already know all this stuff

[@raunefare]

Just did a 58min 87kh but you could always just set your weight at 45 kg as some do but what's the fun in that xD

[@Jimbob-eu4gd]

I need to get Zwift @4.0 W/kg would be interesting to see my time

[@Wi11yumm]

Alpe du Zwift Corner Times (used a period to avoid time stamps) 21) 3.56 3.56 20) 3.38 7.34 19) 0.49 8.23 18) 1.25 9.48 17) 1.47 11.35 16) 1.05 12.40 15) 3.00 15.40 14) 1.22 17.02 13) 3.31 20.33 12) 2.24 22.57 11) 2.12 25.09 10) 2.39 27.48 09) 2.45 30.33 08) 3.01 33.34 07) 2.20 35.54 06) 5.22 41.16 05) 1.58 43.14 04) 2.07 45.21 03) 4.05 49.26 02) 2.08 51.34 01) 2.34 54.08 00) 3.16 57.24

[@Pshady]

Any plans for a trip to ride up the real thing?

[@DC-lu5qs]

With Nixon!!!

[@GHExploration]

I did this two nights ago let's just say you could of done it twice in the time it took me (god loves a trier) 😬

[@LeePaulSmith]

Have you ever tried the 'Toast Challenge'? You simply need produce the same power on your bike as your toaster uses to toast bread: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWWyZqmlhKikd7M

[@DCassidy42]

Now let's see you go to the real thing and match the same time...???

[@mikeprice8500]

Don’t call me Shirley 😅

[@davidbrown5743]

#aboveavaragehillclimber

[@DeanPattrick]

You've still here.? It's over 😉

[@DC-lu5qs]

go home!

[@lankyanky48]

Congrats Mark, great time 👍😃