Hi,
Today I tried my first .gpx to Zwift Custom Workout.
Firstly, the idea was to translate my 48min ride to a 48min workout. As I have limited time to ride, I chose a short outdoor ride I do regularly on Strava for a short workout. However, I noticed the resultant workout was 59mins (I did not select warmup).
I could probably have lived with that, but then noticed roughly 30mins into my ride that it was telling me I still had 40mins to go! In the end I had to cut it short at 53min, with still around 20mins to go. By my calculations, that’s quite a bit more than 59mins…
What gives with the times???
Also, there was a ridiculous number of different power intervals, some as short as 6s, and I spent a lot of the time settling into a new power output only to have to change again immediately - or in some cases before I’d even settled - only to have it change again by just 20W. At 80% intensity factor, that’s just silly.
I should disclose here that I’m on a dumb trainer, and changing my power often requires changing gears.
Surely there’s some algorithm, even if driven by user parameters, that could average power intervals and produce a less varying workout? Maybe have the user specify a minimum power interval duration, and/or a delta power threshold that must be met in order to produce a different interval in the workout?
Yes I could manually create my workout but, well, didn’t we create computers in the first place to do all this tedious work for us?
Other than these niggly issues, I love the concept!