Category Enforcement Test Events - 21-28 Feb 2022

I suspect the elite cruisers will do their intervals on other platforms from now on.

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Looking forward to an end to

this crap

Also great to know it will include everyone. I was 14th on the game, 10th on ZP and 4th after disqualifications - despite being nowhere near the winner. Ridiculous.

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Even though I ignore Zwift results and only focus on my ZP results, I have never felt comfortable as I know that at least a few genuine racers likely arent on ZP - now we get the full picture in one place.

If I saw that many sandbaggers in the entry list though, not sure I could have done that race tbh, I’d just be on the keyboard winding up the sandbaggers with a barrage of disparaging comments.

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HAHAHAHA!

We were complaining over Xmas that nothing happened, as usual. Bear in mind it was indoor season for most. And all the while they were secretly recording. All of us. Everything. I love it!

Lucky me, I have been in poop shape for some time…

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Any near-term plans to have women-only events?

Will the race results change?
Will there still be many (most) racers not showing up in Zwift Power?
I know the participants will be in the correct pens but will they show up on ZP?

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You still need to accept the setting to turn on single sign-on for ZP be shown in ZwiftPower correct? If so I guess folks who didn’t turn on that setting still won’t show up until they streamline it more.

The response may still be relevant to that person or others who were not helped by the formula change.

I had a quick count of a couple of the events I’m registered in and mostly everyone registered in the event are also ZP members, but its not an exact match so some (but very few) wont have results on ZP (which could change between now and race time). Which stands to reason in that most people that are interested in these events will be people that actively race and therefore active users of ZP (might be a bold assumption of course!)

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If you achieved that in Cat A, nice, if you ‘achieved’ that sitting easy in a group below your ability, then lol, your win means literally zero because the people who are the same/better than you weren’t there.

Thankyou for this comment

A quick look at the B entrants listed at ZwiftPower - Login for the 1800 test event on Monday 21st Feb (5 laps, 36.2Km, 411m climbing)…

20mins W/Kg: 3.6W/Kg puts me at ~25% of field, with 11 of ~125 entrants having 4.2W/Kg+ (one with impressive 328W/Kg :laughing: )

20min raw Watts: 296W puts me just above 50% of field, with 17 of ~125 entrants having 326W+ (more than I’ve done recently for 5mins)

15sec W/Kg: 7.5W/Kg puts me at ~15% of field, with 23 of ~125 entrants having 12W/Kg+

15sec raw Watts: 626W puts me at ~40% of field, with 16 listed as 1000W+

Going by my only race this year over 28mins being 241W for ~59mins on Temples And Towers, I have a hunch I won’t be challenging the podium! :rofl:

The top 2/3rds of that field are very strong. Even though thats way too early for me, thats a huge field so I’m tempted to enter just because of the number of riders so maybe I might get a half decent race at the back. But if I do, I can guarantee that you wont be last either :wink:

i’ve got solemn news for you… winning in A doesn’t really mean anything either

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It’s exceptionally weak for B cat. Of course with only 4 pens there’s always going to be quite a spread from top to bottom, that can’t be avoided by any splitting method.

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Yikes, cant wait till I slip back to C’s again!

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I dropped in to look at that event, but the Cat D entrants. What again was the ZP criteria for Cat D – wasn’t it sub 2.5. and 150 watts? I see the below as a partial snapshot of the D race entrants. I know everyone has spoken about how the new system bumped people up but not down?

No it’s OR to be under, AND to be over. And those thresholds apply to the average of the top three 95% of 20 min power, so many top D will have a best 20 min power around 2.7 and usually well over 150

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I get confused by ZP defs. I thought 2.5+ wkg AND >150 watts meant you should be in C?

Sure but 95% of 2.6 is under 2.5, even 2.7 is marginal depending on rounding. And if you look at their profiles I bet the vast majority don’t have an average over 2.5 in the last 90 days. Those bests are best ever, not limited to 90 days.