I didn’t have much left by the end, there was a small group of about 4 riders in a little pack. I could only manage about 600w (seated) for the last sprint. If it wasn’t such a large effort to keep with the pack I would have had a lot more left for the final sprint.
I can’t find you on zwiftpower, did you use a different name?
EDIT, never mind, found you
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KISS races are notorious for people riding down categories. There are much better races out there.
there are a number of race series that have moved to private events to get rid of the sandbagges. I’d highly recommend those as well the likes of TFC mad monday, Electric spirit Tuesday, SZR Wednesday, RWB saturday morning
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Hi Gordon, how does someone go about getting into the private events?
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usually they are team based then the invite links are sent team manager. Have you joined a team?
I don’t know if they were really sandbagging or not. It’s just they were able to ride at that pace with less w/kg and win. It’s as if I wasn’t drafting for the entire race. That’s what it felt like.
No offence at all Myles. I’m very glad you post about your experience.
Racing is not just a 20m w/kg competition. In fact in real life it has nothing to do with most race results.
There’s really only really 3 ways of winning a Zwift race legitimately. Sprint, solo, late attack.
If you can’t sprint, you’ll probably never win a flat race.
If you can’t do high w/kg for extended periods, you’ll never win solo.
If you’re racing any kind of high quality competition, the late attack rarely works.
Which leaves you back with a sprint…
Then add in the horrible Zwift drafting blob algorithm and you’ll see that more often than not, no attacks work, no solos work, so it’s nearly always a sprint. Full blob or reduced blob. Sprint, sprint sprint…
So, forget your 20m w/kg, what’s your 15sec w/kg? That’s the metric that wins most Zwift races.
I’m not sure I can agree with you 100% there @TheBandit , sprint really wouldn’t matter in this case as I would already be DQ, that’s the point. I was already disqualified for simply trying to keep up.
But in this race it was only 7.7w/kg for 15s but I was already pretty drained by that point which was a seated effort and there wasn’t much to gain by going harder at the finish.
Hello everyone. I am really new to cycling and trying to learn the ropes. I bought a used bike this summer (I have hardly ridden because I also run competitively and wanted to get through a marathon cycle before taking this on - I didn’t even have cycling shoes until last month haha). I also just got a new trainer for my birthday and am really enjoying Zwift. Being super competitive, I jumped in a few races over the last few weeks and was humbled at how good so many people are (especially some of my fellow female counterparts which is awesome). I was excited to look at my results this morning and went to the page and saw WKG and didn’t know what that meant. I read this thread as it pertains to my situation but I’m still a bit confused. The times in the B category are 2+ minutes faster than me. How on earth am I almost a B? I thought C was ambitious. Thank you for your replies!
- Amy
Welcome Amy,
You can’t really compare the times between categories as everyone in the ride goes at a faster pace the higher cats will always finish faster.
Question is could you hang on and finish with that higher cat that finished 2 minutes quicker. Given you got a wkg for going over power zwift thinks you are too strong for your current category and could cope in cat B. That does not mean you will end the race with the front group but hopefully you can hang on enough to make a race of it.
Good luck
Thank you, Gordon. Eager to see what the new category brings. Cheers to being faster by association!
I just did a ride tonight solo for the first time in a while and holy cow did I feel really slow. I have to find a way to balance this with marathon training because my legs are starting to conk out. I did run 9 this morning so maybe that is a contributing factor? Sometimes I just operate as if I was a machine instead of a human.
Have a nice night.
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