MyWhoosh

Um, uh, right, there was, uh, an interesting story last week from the world of elite e-racing.

Uh, so the platform MyWhoosh, uh, which has been hosting the UCI World Championships for the last couple of seasons, I think-

Mm

... uh, and has developed their Sunday Race Club.

Yeah, basically, it boils down to if everyone's using the same power meter, you can be sure that the racing is fair, as long as the power meter is good, of course, which they are.

Yeah.

Uh, now, uh, so if you want to compete for prize money on MyWhoosh, you will need to be using these Favero pedals so that you're competing on a level playing field.

Uh, plus, this is also interesting, right? So following an initial trial period, they've said they're actually getting power meter analysis metrics from the Faveros in addition to just the raw power data that can be monitored by-

Yeah

... first and how you got into cycling and, uh, racing on MyWhoosh, and then let's talk about that club and your, and your team management role.

So, so how did you get into cycling a- and when did cycling e-sports specifically, when did you, when did you find it?

I started cycling around 18, which was about 20 y- 20... over 20 years ago.

But A was on a different level.

It just, people were just so, like, hyper-fixated on other people cheating that that probably was the real key of my transition.

I, I went on to, um, IndieVelo for a while, and... 'cause it's got the velodrome, so I love IndieVelo, and then became Tr- um, Training Peaks, and then onto MyWhoosh really as, as...

It was kind of transitioned across 'cause Zwift was kind of not really working at that point, and I, I moved across and then SRC kind of caught me and- I loved your-- watching your sh-- your, your-- I was entertained by your commentary and watching it all-

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Matt Smithson, Director of Esports and Game Operations at MyWhoosh.

Matt, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me.

to keep it or give it back.

I've got the same issue with the MyWhoosh thing, the cycling app I've got.

I can't connect it to my watch.

I'm doing these threshold efforts, but Coros doesn't know about that.