u/Odd_Agent6728

I would like to do more volume weekdays. I have two times in the day that I could do 1 hour workouts. If I could just do 2 hours all together I would so I was wondering if its possible to do two 1 hour workouts. If not I thought I would be able to just do a spin ride on the second hour in the day.

I bought an old road bike on marketplace in April so I'm a beginner. I started out around 5 hours a week not knowing anything about cycling. I would just go out ride pretty hard for all my rides. Added more training after a few weeks around 7-10 hours total. Did my first group ride found out I am really fast. A guy I met on that ride has become one of my best friends now and is the one that got me started with join. Before join I would ride 5-6 days a week each ride go harder than the last time. I then went to 6 days a week. I only started riding because of a injury from hypertrophy training and doctor told me to stop upperbody lifting till it healed. The lifting is all I knew and thought you have to push a little harder to gain which I am gaining speed. My question I guess is join has me rest more than I was before so I choose a workout on a rest day then the rest of the week changes from the workout. Well I have a group ride tomorrow and join wants me to rest after but I'm going to ride so I'm going to again choose a workout idk if it benefits me or not then join will just keep giving me a rest day when I dont want to rest and just keep going in that cycle. So if I'm choosing the workouts what is join actually doing for me? I ask my buddy he says idk how to help because he looks at my stats and doesnt understand how I can do this much work and not have hr rise or seem like im fatigued. I joined join to become faster and race within the next year. I understand this might just be word vomit but I would like some help or advice on how to have join understand where I am and adjust to me not me just picking out a workout that I can just choose on zwift.

Virgin here doing it solo but having family support for the first 4 days. I am a stay at home dad so I do most of all my training early morning before wife goes to work. I was wondering if there will be other riders that leave super early 5-530am? I am not much into the party scene so I will be on my normal schedule and want to take off as early as possible. Anyone else as crazy as me or will I be alone? Also when they announce official route can I download the route to upload to my computer?

I bought old used madone 4.5 that had less than 200 miles on it not sure how true but was in good condition. My question is on wheelset I found some Giant PA-2 with Gatorskin tires not sure how many miles on tires. Was wondering if this would be an upgrade from what came on stock with the Madone 4.5. I know this bike isn't great with 25mm being the widest I can go but can't fix that so I just want to know if $100 for wheelset and tires is decent price and if an upgrade for my bike? Thanks in advance for any feedback.