Starting a session

Group workouts are being advertised to riders via the Zwift Companion phone application. 

1. Install the application on your phone if needed.
2. Confirm that follow Tom (Tom GPC ) and Dan (Alboiu). This will allow us to invite you to the meetups, otherwise you will not be able to join the party. At this point in time you can also send a message to the #Zwift-Rides in the GOP Slack, so that we can add you to the Garage Of Pain Cycling Zwift club (used to schedule events, other than regular workouts).
3. Invites will be sent at least 24hours before the event. When you get an alert in the Companion App, make sure you click the "+" sign in order to sign up for the session.
4. During the workout the companion app will provide you with additional data and control of the workout.

Workouts are being run whithin the Zwift application.

1. At least 15 minutes before the scheduled start time, open Zwift on the device you are planning to run your workout (Primary or Secondary Device). The session GOP#XX should already show up on your dashboard. If it's not there, please refer back to step #2 above.
2. Click and join the sheduled GOP Workout session.
3. At this point in time, your avatar will be placed onto the proposed circuit. Although it seems, that you can wait for the start countdown to get to zero, then go, there is one more important step that needs to be done.
4. Click on the Menu button on the main Zwift screen. Go to Workouts (right-hand side menu), and expand the Custom Workouts section (should be at the top of the list). Load the workout file matching the GOP session number you are about to run (e.g. 03GOP This will actually load the workout you need to run. You can see the workout profile in the right-hand-side window (Check your FTP value is right).
5. Click on the Workout button. You will be sent back to the Menu screen. Click on the Back button. This will send you back to onto the proposed circuit. You will notice that the top-left-hand-side menu, has now changed to the planned workout outline.
6. If you don't get that workout graph, you will have to re-do steps 1 though 5 above.

Use the screenshots below, in order to get some basic understanding on how all this works.

Ask question if needed, in the #Zwift-Rides channel on our GOP Slack.