As a Club organizer, I want to create a Group Workout using a Free Ride workout of selectable duration (e.g., 60, 90, 120 minutes) so riders of widely differing abilities can stay together with rubber banding while each chooses their own effort.
How about creating a 120 minute banded group ride for your club? Anyone can leave at 60 or 90 minutes if that’s what they want. What else beyond that are you hoping to get? If you think it needs to be a workout then you could ask the events team (events@zwift.com) to apply a custom workout to the event that you create and send to them.
Thanks - I wasn’t aware of the Events Team linkage! We have some number of folks on medical restrictions & the free ride option felt like a good choice for them.
Any ride that’s banded (ie, keep-together mode in a club ride) will stay with the group if they keep pedaling, and if the people recovering from medical issues put the Trainer Difficulty setting at zero they will feel no resistance changes based on the terrain. That might be adequate for your needs.
Thank you - we will have to try and experiment with the trainer difficulty setting - haven’t used it this way before.
Trainer Difficulty controls the incline of a gradient as sent to the trainer, so it affects the feel of a climb or descent. If you put it at zero, all roads feel flat. If you put it higher, climbs feel harder and descents feel easier. On flat roads it does not do anything since there is no gradient. I often recommend putting it at zero for riders who are recovering from injury so they are completely in control of the effort and don’t feel anything when the terrain goes up or down. Speed is still determined by power regardless of the Trainer Difficulty setting, but in a banded ride power doesn’t matter.