Ballarat professional cycling brothers Liam and Nick White know how fortunate they are right now.
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While under COVID-19 movement restrictions athletes around the world are struggling to maintain training regimes anything like what they are accustomed to, for the Whites their sporting life is as close to normal as they could hope for.
Living on the family property at Millbrook, they are still able to get out and about on the road for the training rides.
While it is a far cry from racing, each is grateful they can still clock up substantial kilometres to maintain a solid fitness base in readiness for whenever racing does resume.
"We're lucky we can still get out together and train on the road," said Nick, who rides for Team Bridgelane and at the start of March won the Tour of Taiwan.
While each appreciates that with no competition in the foreseeable future the next best thing is being able stay on the bike and keep fitness levels up, the Whites are not sitting back content with just that.
To keep the competitive juices flowing, they have turned their focus to the virtual reality cycling world of Zwift - a global E-sport phenomenon.
Nick said he found it hard to motivate himself when he did not have a specific objective to ride for.
He said Zwift was helping meet this need as a training and racing tool.
Nick said the program allowed cyclists to train or race on a variety of actual courses around the world.
Liam said it was easy to become complacent when not racing on a regular basis.
He said Zwift enabled riders to compete and maintain a competitive edge against cyclists from around the world.
Liam, who mixes tertiary studies with riding for Oliver's Real Food, said it was easy to ease off the intensity when on a training ride no matter how hard you tried.
He said Zwift racing did not allow this.
"You have to race. Keep on the pedals."
Liam said the racing program was certainly helpful in building up endurance as the pressure was on constantly just as it was in reality.
He said Australian Mat Hayman's win in the 2016 Paris-Roubaix was proof of the benefits of Zwift.
Much of Hayman's preparation for the classic was undertaken on Zwift after he broken his arm six weeks before the event.
Hayman only discovered the multiplayer online fitness platform after the injury, with it giving him the ability to train indoors while his arm was healing.
The Whites will take on their next major Zwift challenge on Thursday night.