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Thread: Zwift, TR, Sufferfest etc
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03-09-2021, 08:03 AM #1626
Earn your FULL PRL Badge. Zwift Insider Badge Hunters Event March 13th.
https://zwiftinsider.com/badge-hunters-prl-full/
They are doing a group ride again this Saturday, double draft and powers ups. The estimated finish time should be the same as The Uber Pretzel ride a few weeks ago.
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03-09-2021, 08:44 AM #1627
Hard no. Thank the Gods that the weather is breaking and I have the option of going outside over this.
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03-09-2021, 08:49 AM #1628
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03-09-2021, 09:18 AM #1629
Newb question: I don't understand how racing in Zwift works. So I'm a "high c" according to my FTP. I entered the C class on a race last week. I raced pretty hard and ended up averages 3.4 watts/kg, which put me out of the C category, therefore disqualified. The guy that won rode exactly 3.0watts/kg average and beat me by over two minutes.
How does one do better without "classing out"?
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03-09-2021, 09:35 AM #1630
Did you actually get a “WKG” result in ZwiftPower, which means “Exceeded Category Power Limits”, or are you just saying that 3.4 is higher that you think Cat C is?
You can actually produce higher numbers than the category limits and not be disqualified. It’s a complicated calculation of your 20min best, FTP and best 3 race results in the last 90 days.
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03-09-2021, 09:43 AM #1631
Tough to answer in just one post.
W/Kg are obviously dependent on kg. So your 3.4 and the winner's 3.0 cannot be compared strictly as it relates to winning and losing a race. Dude is probably lighter than you.
You can only really stay a "C" on ZP by backing off your performance which would be silly and you probably won't win. ZP calculates your FTP based on prior races and rides. As soon as you put in a performance that is more than your FTP then you could get disqualified using their complex methodology. See this link for a whole bunch of disqualification codes (https://www.zwiftpower.com/viewtopic.php?t=5337). Enough of those result in an adjustment to your FTP upward and a kick up to a higher race category. So you can't "do better without classing out." Just go race the B's and get your ass handed to you like the rest of us.
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03-09-2021, 10:01 AM #1632
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03-09-2021, 10:11 AM #1633
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03-09-2021, 10:43 AM #1634
Okay, this just seems... not right. Considering that the 3.4 and 3.0 number are W/kg... yes one rider is lighter or heavier than the other, but pushing the same W/kg should equate to going the same speed as the weight differential is already accounted for, no? The total watts being pushed will be different, with the heavier rider needing to push more wattage to get the same W/kg... but once they have the same W/kg wouldn't the speed be the same? Or does Zwift also factor in some "wind" resistance for the heavier (i.e. larger) rider as well, and the heavier/larger rider has to overcome that in addition to just pushing more raw watts?
For instance, I'm 90kg... so my (simplified) understanding is that if I make 180 total watts while riding alongside someone who is 75kg and making 150 total watts, that we'll go the same speed as we're both making 2W/kg.
Though as for winning a race with lower average W/kg (averaged out over the entire race) than someone else, I can see that happening through the magic of the draft and rider strategy... winning rider gets in the lead group and they draft/work together, and then winner attacks at the end. No?
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03-09-2021, 10:55 AM #1635
At the same w/kg the person doing more actual watts will go slightly faster. Especially on flat ground, and especially with bigger differences in weight. Like a 50kg person doing 100w and a 100kg person doing 200w. You notice it in event results where the smaller people tend to have a higher w/kg average. Or how the world TT champ is 180lbs, which is huge for a pro roadie.
e- and zwiftinsider has tested this
https://zwiftinsider.com/wkg-tests/Last edited by jamal; 03-09-2021 at 11:55 AM.
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03-09-2021, 11:03 AM #1636
^^Yes, kinda, and maybe.
Zwift has a calculation for your CdA (Cd= drag coefficient, A= frontal area) based on your height and weight. In Pro Zwift races (like the World Championships) riders need to weight in and measure height live on a zoom call with an official, to ensure accuracy.
Different bikes and different wheels in Zwift have varying levels of coefficient of rolling resistance, drag coefficient of frontal area, and acceleration due to gravity, but these are minor, like the best to 10th best is a difference of 10-15 seconds over the course of 60 minutes.
But like you said the group dynamics of drafting and averaging numbers don't really tell the whole picture. I dont watch much Zwift racing, but I had a friend in the E-World Champs, so I watched that one. In the last 10 minutes they were showing the lead group of 25 and had data showing the riders in the group and listed who was the most efficient (who had expend the least average watts) and I was blown away by the gap between the most efficient and 15th most efficient (still all in the lead group) and that number was over 30 watts, or 0.5w/kg considering most of these girls are about 60kg.
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03-09-2021, 01:28 PM #1637
I’m signed up for the PRL. Should be monotonous.
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03-09-2021, 02:16 PM #1638
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03-09-2021, 04:10 PM #1639
I wish we got to choose what activities we are naturally gifted in - because I would not choose mine: sleeping and being able to do long monotonous exercise. I once hiked for 4 days with 3 hours sleep with no training because I was bored with a research project I had to do. I’m not fast though. I just have good inertia. When in motion I tend to stay in motion. And when at rest I tend to sleep for 12 hours.
I’d rather be able to sprint putting out huge watts or climb with speed - instead I get to be good at doing the PRL slowly and without suffering...
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03-09-2021, 08:23 PM #1640
Zwift, TR, Sufferfest etc
Good solid group tonight.
8 riders! A few new guys (sorry if I assumed your gender)
Everyone in the start pen talked about tired legs, sore legs, taking it easy, but the 3rd lap got spicy, and a big group came together again at the finish line.
Tonight’s riders were:
Dan_PDX (DPdx) (some tech issues on lap 3)
Suit (F.S.) NEW JOINER
Wendigo (Wendigo)
Dee Hubbs (D.H.)
Grmountainman (G.R.)
Merlyn (S.S.)
E.W.G. (F.Thur)
G. Gordon Liddy (M. Barely Ride) NEW JOINER
See ya Thurs 6:00 EST.
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03-09-2021, 08:45 PM #1641
F.Thur has a vagina
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03-09-2021, 08:51 PM #1642
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03-09-2021, 08:53 PM #1643
I mean, I don’t think you should say those things right after National Women’s Day...
I’d say that was a random attack except I think we all know huck is kinda a dick when he’s not on his meds. And by meds I mean Utica Club and turpentine fumes.
Missed ya tonight huck.
Dee bitched about the 637,000 vert he’s ridden in the last few days and still held me off at the line. It’s gotta be the shoes Mookie.
I know it wasn’t the socks.
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03-09-2021, 08:57 PM #1644
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03-09-2021, 09:21 PM #1645
I guess trying to stay away from the top of the hill wasn't a winning strategy ...
Is it possible to see the chat in retrospect? I think someone mocked my socks when I first joined.
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03-09-2021, 09:24 PM #1646
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03-09-2021, 09:25 PM #1647
Oh, it can work.
I had a weird thing happen tonight. We're doing a local race series, which starts at 6:15. I hit "join meetup" at about 6:08 and it put me in innsbruck with you guys, but just stopped at the start. Except that I didn't rsvp that I was going, and did say I was going to our race, and zwift companion gave me a notification that my other meetup was starting in 15min. Thankfully the join thing for the event I wanted to do popped up right away at 6:10.
Also yes it is fine to pick a route. There's always one selected anyway when you hit ride. I like doing really short ones while i warm up for stuff to get those badges without having to quit zwift to keep riding.
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03-09-2021, 09:29 PM #1648
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03-09-2021, 09:31 PM #1649
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03-09-2021, 09:34 PM #1650
Zwift did not auto join me tonight either, at 4 minutes to the hour I quit my warm up ride and rejoined a route and it asked me right away to "join meetup".
There have been some gremlins since the last update.
Ya I saw you show up for 10 seconds, and disappear.
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