ERG Mode Workouts & Segment PB's

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This has probably been a topic but …

How does ERG mode impact your avatars in game speed?

I’m fairly new to Zwift, just a few weeks in, and just noticed that during my ERG mode workout today I broke my PB on the Hilly KOM Forward but think this is a bit of a bug.

According to Strava my previous PB was 3:21 at 252W yet during my workout today I’ve done it in 3:07 at just 185W. Surely this is incorrect and is a bug with how your avatars in game speed is calculated during ERG mode workouts? Or maybe the fact that it was a group workout & therefore drafting in a pack of 100 or so riders?

Either way could be a bit annoying if someone was wanting to track and attempt to beat their PB’s on the KOM’s.

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you don’t get any of the gradients when doing erg workouts so that climb is treated as 0% not the 6% when riding normally

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this would be the cause, there is a strange rubberband effect in group workouts… usually resulting in slower speeds, but can also go the other way if you are being pulled by stronger riders.

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Makes sense.

Annoying how it posts to Strava as your PB though !

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This is not true. In a ERG workout you still go the same speed up the climb at the same power.

To the OP @Mike_Rowe1 is correct.

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