 Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of how to run on Zwift. Today it's a very quick episode just looking at how to join a group run Or how to join a group workout So it could be a group workout where you're in workout mode and you're following a set of instructions Or it could just be a standard group run where you all join together at the start line and run off and stay together Or even race each other There are essentially two Main ways to join a group run on Zwift. The first one is right here on the screen behind me Now I'm gonna have to work out which way to put my hands. I think it's this way. I think it's this way Okay, look if you look here Down there that is a list of upcoming events So it's very easy to join a group event from here. You've logged into Zwift You've gone through the pairing screen You've paired your devices or you've skipped that process and you'll do it later and you get to this screen Which is where you decide what course you're going to run on whether you're going to run with anybody else But up here on the right-hand side of the screen here on the right-hand side But up here on the right-hand side of the screen you have these Events listed here and you can join them by clicking on them with your mouse Let me just show you that now so all you do is you mouse over and you can see it says join question mark join question mark So do I want to join the Wednesday workout run that's happening in seven hours time? There are three people already doing that run and I can join different pace groups a group B group C or D So I know fine. Well, I'm going to be doing the Wednesday workout tonight. That's in nine hours time 7 30 UK time So I'm going to join that group and I'm going to join group a because I want a hard workout I want to really test myself so click on that and look it says going and Then you've got the option to leave all you do is click leave and you leave And that's it That's all you have to do to join a group event on Zwift from the Zwift app But there is another way to join group events and workouts on Zwift and that's by using the Zwift companion app All you have to do is open up the app Click on events and it will take you to this page here where you can scroll through the next few days So tomorrow how far does it go? Friday the 19th of October? So three days in advance I can select what events I want to join and again It's as simple as clicking so I know I'm doing this event tonight and look you can see it already tells me I'm going there so I can click on that and there's a big tick I could leave that event if I want I can just press the tick and I'm now no longer going to the Wednesday workout this evening, but I do want to go so I'll click the plus sign and I am now going again. It can give me a reminder look so I can set a reminder for 15 minutes 30 minutes or 60 minutes before the event. I don't need a reminder I'll know already so click save and you're done after you've registered for an event by clicking up the top right hand corner There or clicking in the Zwift companion app Whether it was a few hours before or literally just prior to the event when you log in You will get the option to join that event So what you need to do is you need to click that little blue button. That's just there On the screen you can see it says here. It's starting in 26 minutes and 50 seconds So I've got a bit of time yet But about half an hour before it will give you that message to join the event again in the Zwift companion app Look, you can just see here if I swap over screens in the Zwift companion app It'll give you the same option click to join the event. So what you do Literally just take your phone and press join event and there you are You're now in the event and you'll be placed on the start line And when you're on the start line You will be joined by all the other people taking part in the event and they are the only people that you will see So you won't see the names of anyone else who is on the course You will only see the names of the people who are taking part in your event because I've joined quite early I'm on my own on the start line because there's still 26 minutes to go Normally people tend to log in five minutes even maybe one minute before the event starts So you'll see with about 30 seconds to go lots of people join the event Especially if it's one of the flagship events like Monday Run Club or Wednesday Workout And you can see using the Zwift companion app here. I've got a readout of my stats So I can see what's coming up in the workout or the group run We've got a warm up of 10.5 kilometers an hour for a mile 1.6 kilometers And then we've got two times 200 meters at 17.4 kilometers And then six times 600 meters at 17.4 kilometers And then a cool down of a mile as well. So that's going to be a pretty hard workout There you go. So there's the Zwift start line With a countdown of how long to go and the name of the event that you've joined the Wednesday Workout And you can see a small robot hovering over our heads. That's the pace bot And then the instructions on the left-hand side there look If you're joining an actual group workout, then you will have those instructions on the left-hand side of your screen There will also pop up some instructions in the middle of the screen occasionally And you also have it on your phone as well if you're on the Zwift companion app If you just join a group run, which is not in workout mode, then you won't have those instructions Hopefully you'll have a group leader who will give you some instructions or just give you encouragement as the run goes on So there we are two ways to enter group events group runs group workouts on Zwift either using the game itself Or using the Zwift companion app. That's it. Take care guys. See you next time for another how to run on Zwift episode