 Welcome everyone to a brand new installment of how to run on Zwift now We've covered the Zwift companion app before but I make no apologies for covering it once again today as of December 2018 there is a brand new update to the Zwift companion app, and it's a pretty big one. It's worth exploring So let's go and have a look So as you can see I've got Zwift up and running on the PC in the top right hand corner there And that means that the Zwift companion app is in live mode And so you can see the map of the course that we're on which is currently New York I've got my heart rate on my watch and that's broadcasting to Zwift So my heart rate is currently 64 bpm the important things to note about the update twofold Number one you can now create your own event. Oh, yes So if we click on more bottom right And it will change to this screen and then we need to look at events Click on events and you can see the running events that are available to join today These are the standard events that you would see every time you log into the Zwift companion app And you can join them just by clicking on them However, look just to the right of the running man and you see a group of people click on that Create meetup. So this is how you can create your own event essentially on Zwift create meetup So you press create meetup and it asks what do you want to do? So you can do a cycling event or you can do a running event. We're involved with running So we want to run what time when do you want to meet? What time do you want to meet? So today 11 30 or you can choose any time any day Where do you want to go next now? This is dependent on the day that you've chosen to do your event So for example today, we're on the New York course So the options that you get are all the courses around the New York course all the routes that you can do around the New York course however, if I was to choose let's say Let's choose the 14th of December And that then changes to Innsbruck because the 14th of December is Innsbruck day So you would get the routes around Innsbruck And you can choose how far you want to run five kilometers eight kilometers 98 kilometers 898 kilometers Let's choose 898 kilometers in 30 minutes Five kilometers or a duration you can choose a You can choose a duration or a distance for your group run So let's we're going to choose 30 minutes And then who do you want to invite now? This is the important bit You can only invite people who follow you so you can't go inviting everyone on Zwift You can't go inviting all the elite athletes You can only invite your friends or people who follow you so you might follow somebody else for example But if they don't follow you, you can't invite them to the meet-up So i'm going to click the plus button here And um there we are we can we can choose any of these people So let's choose Eric and uh and jen bug And let's choose the stride team Let's add Karen let's find Tim where's Tim Do you know what Tim doesn't even follow me cheeky blighter does Tim gross not follow me? Yes, he does. Okay. There we are. So we'll add Tim as well So we've added a load of people to the meet-up and now we can message the group We can say what the meet-up's about why we're doing it and then we just press create meet-up and that creates the event So i'm going to click the back button And it says discard so we'll discard that event So you can now create your own events on Zwift through the Zwift companion app This is going to be awesome for people who've got a group of friends together You all want to run together But you don't want to run in an event that's being officially created in the Zwift events module You just want to get together Previously you'd all have to arrange this separately and it all arranged to meet somewhere on the course And it could all get a little bit confusing now It's so much easier to do with the create meet-up option on the Zwift companion app Now there's more to the new Zwift companion app If we go to activities you can now see that we have a lot more data to look at Previously when you did your run on Zwift, your run finished You got a few stats in front of you on the screen as you finished and when you logged out But that was essentially it and there wasn't really much to look at afterwards like you would get say in Strava or Garmin connect or whatever But now if you click on a run that you've done So the last run I did was Monday run club in group A So I click on that and look it gives me a little map of where I ran with all the ride-ons that I got and when I got them during the run And so I can click through on my map and I can see my pace and my cadence and my heart rate So the red line is my heart rate the white line is my pace And the blue line is my cadence obviously you can see the intervals that I did there And there's a little bit more information as well You can still you can see your max heart rate your average heart rate your max cadence and average cadence So there's so much information there. It's so much better than it was and there's my heart rate in zones So I spent most of the run in zone four. So it was a pretty tough workout even crept into zone five there I've got a little photograph. I've got the distance time pace and calories burned What the event was called and then look I've got all my splits there I can write a note about the run I can click on the workout and see that I earned 21 out of 21 stars And that's it. So I mean pretty much all the information you could ask for really is listed there. It's fantastic Absolutely brilliant new update to the Zwift companion app It is something that I use an awful lot and I'm going to be using it even more now that I've got this data which Previously I would have gone to Strava to look at. I mean, I will still go to Strava But this is really handy to have all that information there And I'm really looking forward to seeing how the new meetup option is utilised by you guys in the community I'm certainly going to be using it and I'm looking forward to getting my first invite to a run from one of you guys very soon Take care. That's it for another how to run on Zwift. See you very soon. Bye. Bye