Watopian Weekly

Watopian Weekly Season 4 Episode 1 Happy New Year! Welcome to Watopian Weekly Season 4 Episode 1! This week the Watopian Weekly Staff cover many topics that include but are not limited to: Tour of Boudicca, FRR, ZRL, Rhino Racing 2UPTT, and New Year’s Resolutions! Thank you all for listening and sending us podcast ideas and things to talk about each week! Please join the Discord server and the Wat...

Happy New Year, everyone! We wanted to take a quick moment to send a Happy New Year Message! See you all in 2025 in Watopia! Watopian Weekly YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@WatopianWeekly?s... Come join Watopian Weekly Podcast on Zwift Club   https://www.zwift.com/clubs/22b75fac-... Please join us on the Watopian Weekly Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/pxM3Wq2nv9 Please email any f...

This week the Watopian Weekly Staff embarks on a brave endeavor: Recording the Podcast LIVE while playing BINGO! You can play along too - even in Podcast Form! Go to our discord server (link below) and download a bingo form. Whenever you hear the phrases on the card mark off that square. You can get a Bingo up, down, left, right, diagonal, four corners, or a blackout. When you do get a bingo pleas...

Watopian Weekly Season 3 Episode 12 In this episode the Watopian Weekly Staff, Paul, Josh, and Dustin, cover many topics. Everything from ZRL Triumphs (and disappointments), Ladder Racing with the Zwift Advent Calendar, checking in with our goals for the year, AND the most important thing, our LIVE Holiday Episode! You are all invited to join in the fun! Bingo Cards will be available on our Discor...

Watopian Weekly Season 3 Episode 11 This week Josh, Paul and Dustin get back together to discuss Zwift, what’s been going on and what goals they have for the year. Topics include (but are not limited to): Catching up since we haven’t all had a chance to get together for a long time, Riding through Jarvis Island for the first time, new workouts, how to explain Zwift to Non-Zwifters and how Paul’s w...

Watopian Weekly Season 3 Episode 10 with Justin from Sauce For Zwift!! This week Josh and Dustin interview the most requested person to talk to on Watopian Weekly, the Legend Justin Mayfield, creator of Sauce for Zwift. Sauce For Zwift is an overlay system that gives you extra data on your screen. Links to Sauce for Zwift, their Discord Server as well as a great example of how to use it on Josh’s...

This week the Watopian Weekly Staff discuss Halloween, Tour of Watopia, candy, and Flamme Rouge Racing! Competing and completing all of the stages of Tour Britannia in Flamme Rouge Racing could be scary! Perfect for the Halloween Special! Approximate Times: 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:03:42 Getting Excuses Ready 00:00:05:41 Trick Or Treat 00:00:17:00 Flamme Rouge Racing (FRR) 00:00:30:47 Candy on the Bik...

This week the Watopian Weekly Staff are super excited to talk to Tim Hanson from ZwiftRacing. App. Tim is here to talk all about the Zwift Racing app and Zwift Racing Score. Tim has been a part of the development of the Zwift Racing Score and the continued development of the ZwiftRacing. App. By the way, have you ever noticed that “ZwiftRacing.app” is marked as BETA at the top? There is something...

Welcome to Watopian Weekly Season 3 Episode 7! This week, the Watopian Weekly Staff, Gina, Josh, and Dustin discuss a wide variety of topics and subtopics that include the feats of strength that come along with FRR, how hard last week’s ZRL Race 5 was, the upcoming ZRL Race 6 on one of the only breakfast themed courses on Zwift, and so much more! Please see below for links discussed in the episode...

This week Gina, Josh and Dustin talk about the Top 10 favorite things about Zwift as suggested by listeners on our Discord Server (see link below) in honor of Zwift’s 10 year anniversary. We also discuss the upcoming TTT for ZRL (everyone LOVES Box Hill!), and Pain Cave / Wattage Cottage Upgrades/enhancements. As we transition from more outdoor riding to indoor riding we will be publishing the pod...

This week Hollie and Dustin talk with Damon from ZMS eSports Studio! ZMS Esports Studio: https://www.youtube.com/@zmsesportsstudio Damon has been streaming the Tiny Races as well as TONS of other races. Chances are you have seen his work. Damon is also on board to be streaming all of the Iceni race series which starts off on September 7. Damon talks us through his set up, how he got into all of th...

This week Hollie and Dustin are joined by Bren, a TTT specialist. Bren is here to talk tactics on the upcoming ZRL Season as well as how he has been helping Hollie prep for the UCI Worlds! That’s right, both Hollie and Gina have qualified and are racing for their countries for the eSports World Championships!  ZRL is discussed and there are genuinely GREAT tips on how to smash the ZRL TTTs which t...

This week Hollie, Gina, and Dustin get together to record. Topics covered include the Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift, how all of our hearts are broken that DRS isn’t continuing (thanks to Kevin, Justin, Martin, and Doug for the FANTASTIC Series!), ladder stuff, pacing categories vs. racing score, and so much more! Special shout out to friends of the podcast ZMS ESports Studio as well as In the D...

Welcome to Watopian Weekly! This is a summer Catch-Up episode for the whole admin team. Paul discusses his massive extension, Gina delivers tales from under the Tuscan Sun, Hollie tells us what it’s like mountain biking for the first time, and Dustin loses a race. Such a great crew and great to hear from all of them. We’d like to hear from all of you! Please feel free to join the discord and send...

Watopian Weekly Season 3 Episode 1 With the Zwift Insider Eric Schlange! This week Hollie and Dustin talk to Eric Schlange, the Zwift insider. We cover so many topics. Everything from Dustin was right about June 12th - it was an expensive tablet holder to how to contribute to the Zwift Insider website to what is coming to Zwift this summer to hardware, to how Mark King is one of the greatest bass...

This week Gina, Hollie and Dustin reflect over the past season of episodes as well as look towards the future. 30 Episodes during this season! Incredible! Thank you all for listening and supporting this podcast! Recorded Live! Gina van Rossum's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7fc... Watopian Weekly on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/watopianwee... Watopian Weekly Youtub...

Welcome to Watopian Weekly! This week Hollie and Dustin talk about loads of stuff going on in Watopia and on Zwift! Different racing series, getting dropped in ladder races, making your own on-the-bike food and trying to figure out what the heck is coming on June 12?!?! Approximate times: 00:00:00 Intro and Weekly Catch Up 00:25:00 ZRL Summer Showdown / DRS Summer League 00:40:00 Zwift racing Seri...

This week Dustin and Hollie talk about loads of topics. Everything from swimming, recovering in Zone 2, percussive massagers, and so much more! Ladder races for the week are recapped as well as Dustin’s plans to put summer air in his tires to go faster on the local group rides. New routes and the Zwift Labs are discussed. Did Dustin and his rag-tag group of humans beat the bots this week? Tune in...

This week Hollie and Dustin talk about why they are so tired! Flamme Rouge Racing of course! Hollie and Dustin talk about how they got up the mountain, the charities involved, how you can truly find a FRRiend on the mountain (they are just there, on the long draggy bit by the corner), and how and when both Hollie and Dustin decided to stop riding. The charities are still open on the Flamme Rouge R...

Watopian Weekly Episode 26: Flamme Rouge Racing Special! This week Hollie and Dustin talk with Rich Vale and Allan “Parky” about the Flamme Rouge Racing 24 Hours Atop VenTop on Saturday, May 18, 2024 from 7AM YST (Yorkshire Standard Time) to 7AM the next day YST!!  This is a great charity event that will raise money for Cyclists Fighting Cancer (CFC) and Bodie Hodges Foundation (BHF). This the Fla...

This week Hollie and Dustin talk with Tim from the Zwift Racing app! Hollie and Dustin learn about the different phenotypes, how the terrain handicaps work and ask almost all of the questions that have been submitted via the Watopian Weekly Discord Server (see the link below).  Topics covered in this episode:  Hollie and Dustin also do their weekly catch up DRS is a wrap but the After Party is yet...

This week Hollie and Dustin wrap up the now famous X-Wing vs Cycos race: VIDEO: When Hollie found out the results of the Ladder Race between Cycos and X-Wings https://www.youtube.com/live/wbjANkQ0rn0?si=N4W59i8ZhtyamoUX&t=3222 Topics discussed during this episode include: 24 Hours Atop VenTop for charity on May 18th starting at 0700 YST (Yorkshire Standard Time), Zwift Racing League play-offs...

This week Hollie and Dustin talk with the most feared Captain in all of the Ladder League, Josh W. Captain of the Coalition X-Wings. Notice, no Captain of DiRT Cycos was brave/available to record despite being invited.  Topics discussed in this episode: Hollie gets second in FRR and tries MyWoosh, Josh grabs another victory in the Ladder League and continues his training, and Dustin has a great ti...

Disclaimer: We had a few connection issues at the beginning (Dustin shut his computer off by accident which caused a few sound issues in the intro). This week Hollie and Dustin discuss DRS, ZRL Finals, WTRL TTT Worlds, and the race of the year: X-Wings vs. DiRTY Cycos. Dustin took a ride outside, Hollie went to a comedy show, and Dustin learns why you’d race a friendly in Ladder League Please join...

This week Hollie and Dustin talk with Martin from WTRL! Martin had to join us late so his interview starts around 20 minutes into the episode. Topics covered in this episode, DRS, Ladder Racing, all things WTRL and ZRL, favorite Easter Candy - how do you eat a chocolate bunny and more!  Hollie and Dustin had a lot of questions for Martin from WTRL. Did you know 36,000+ people participate in ZRL al...