Hi all,
Another update and another Alpe Du Zwift bug. The power-ups on Alpe Du Zwift follower a user and are not stationary on a particular segment.
See screen dump below.
The power-ups are useless since they very rarely work. This has been a bug for years and never been fixed.
I could be wrong, but what your screenshot shows seems to be normal behaviour for this extra feature for regular ascenders of the Alpe.
What youāre seeing is the countdown timer (2:12) to one of three (of four?) ephemeral power-up arches along the Alpe ascent that are based on your previous times in the recent past. Only when you reach the arches in under the calculated time do you win the power-up that is shown next to the countdown timer. If you donāt go fast enough (according to Zwiftās calculation), the arch disappears and you donāt win the power-up.
Edit: As noted later in this thread, I am probably imagining the arches. The thresholds could well be invisible on the main map, but occur at the same points each time.
Ohā¦ arch you sayā¦um. Iāve climbed the Alpe 242 times and never seen an arch - so how do I know where this ephemeral power-up arch is? I was under the impression that in 2:12 I reach a point in the climb that issues a power-up. Regardless of whether I ābeatā a previous time or not.
I donāt have a screenshot of any of the arches (which look like the ones that occur during workouts, when passing from one section to another), but I can confirm that the last time I was regularly riding up the Alpe, I had the countdown timers and got to some of the arches but not all. From memory, it pushes you to meet or exceed a previous best, so not easily attainable.
Perhaps other regular Alpers can weigh in with their experiences?
Wow! I have never seen an arch in 242 ascentsā¦ If I did, I might rider even harder. This āarchā concept is news to me! Please somebody post a screen shot!
Iāve never seen an arch either on Apple TV, on the Alpe. But itās as Roule said - you need to get to that powerup before the timer runs out otherwise it disappears.
But how do you know WHERE the power-up point is?
Itās not an arch. Itās a chalk thumbs up on the tarmac, I think?
Big respect to you Stephen. I dont think Iāll ever hit that many ascents!
I have rarely hit whatever target is there and as Iām usually killing myself focusing on the Companion App power numbers, I cant say that I can recall what time(s) I have seen either but I had always assumed it adjusted as my times improved but only recall once of twice getting that PU.
Now Iām wondering if Iāve hallucinated the arches. 
Perhaps not enough coffee this morning? Iāve done some image and YouTube searches and can find nothing, anywhere.
In any case, I do recall that the threshold points for winning (or not) the power-ups are at the same points each time.
Now I think about it more, the arches Iām āseeingā are probably in my mindās eye, from looking at the countdown timers on the mini-map and pushing myself into deep pain to reach the cut-off in time, like the final moments of a workout section where youāre holding on for survival.
Apologies for any confusion. Iām putting on a new pot of coffeeā¦
Like I said, my head is down killing myself so I cant help you Roule 
Something stronger than a coffee can also do wonders 
Thanks Deanā¦
It gets harder each time I climb since Iām approaching 62 years old soon. I try to climb in under 50 minutes - usually around 47-48 minutes depending how I feel. At one stage I could push out 2 consecutive ascents in under 50 minutes - but Iām finding that a bit more difficult now.
I looks at my watts and if I can stay at 250 Watts for each segment I normally get around 47-48 minutes. Iām 62 kg - so I do have a climbers build.
My goal is 1000 ascents - hopefully before my 65 birthday.
Ahā¦ I have seen a chalk thumbā¦ OK Iāll try this tomorrow and see if I get a power up.
Thanks David.
I found this January 2022 video for you. Power up positions x3 as you have listed.
To save viewing whole video key times in video are:
14:44
26:50
55:29
Also found this from April 2018
āThese times are based off some of your previous efforts, plus or minus a random amount of time.ā If this is still the case it probably makes getting a Powerup hard to achieve as you get older and possibly slower, and especially when you have done 200+ ascents.
Brilliant stuff, Ian. 
Thanks for all the responses. I never realized this feature after 242 ascents.
One would think Zwift would put a more noticeable marker - a banner for example, so that one new when to attain a power up. (rather than a thumb on the road).
Iāll give it another goā¦
How many ascents have you done, donāt think you mentioned it ? 
243 nowā¦ Mate you gotta blow your own trumpet at my age!
Did you get a powerup ?
Have you got the wheels yet?
