What happens when you mix a live Sweet Spot group ride, real-time coaching, fueling advice, tech questions, and unfiltered athlete Q&A?

You get a live, no-BS training session led by Coach Frank that covers how cyclists train. Pardon the audio as we recorded from our discord channel that was live during the ride.

In this ride & podcast, we dove into a dozen or more topics, including:

1. How to ride Sweet Spot by feel (no rigid intervals required)

2. Why Sweet Spot is "not too hard, not too easy — just right"

3. Fueling correctly indoors (70–90g carbs/hr and why it matters)

4. ERG mode: when to use it and when it hurts your training

5. Using time-in-zone instead of chasing perfect watts

6. Heart rate vs power for Sweet Spot Time in Zone Accuracy

7. Training consistency, durability, and long-ride fatigue resistance

8. How to adapt training when life, travel, injuries, or holidays happen

9. Festive 500 strategy for road, gravel, crit, and masters athletes

10. Strength training + endurance: how to blend them without burnout

11. Why most plateaus are caused by doing the same thing too long

12. How CoachCat helps revise plans, answer questions, and guide decisions in real time 🎯

Who this ride and podcast is for:

Masters cyclists

Time-crunched athletes

Gravel, road, crit, and fondo riders

Athletes training indoors on Zwift

Anyone tired of over-complicating training

🧠 Key takeaway: Fitness comes from doing slightly more work than yesterday and recovering well enough to do it again tomorrow.

Sweet Spot training done right builds durability, raises FTP, and teaches you how to pace long efforts — without burying yourself.

🚴 Join us live again on January 3rd, 2026 Sweet Spot Saturday is part of a 7-ride progression series: Each ride gets 30 minutes longer Builds durability and confidence Ride #7 culminates in the legendary Uber Pretzel

📅 Next ride: January 3 👉 Join the FasCat Coaching Club in the Zwift Companion app

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