Group Rides: PRs, Stars, Points

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When doing a group ride with the speed modulated by “rubber-banding”, what is the effect on PR’s?  I guess I’m below average and I set some PRs during a “banded” workout that might reflect an artificial increase in speed.

On the other hand, on the same workout, another rider suggested a sprint at the end of an interval, and as a result I didn’t get my gold star!  It was fun to watch my avatar dig a hole by pedaling furiously without speeding up, but not getting that shiny star and ruining my otherwise flawless performance (PERFECT! PERFECT! PERFECT!) took a toll on my psychological well being.  Plus I think I might have lost out on some points?  Nobody seems to be able to quantify how points work beyond 30/mile + power-up-bonuses + nebulous other rewards.  And would it still be better for me to switch to metric, or is that fixed now?

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For those of us who would normally be slower than the group speed, your PR will be artificially fast. I rode up Box Hill recently and was trying to work out why I couldn’t get close to my PR, then I realised that the PR time was set on a group workout (with “rubber-banding”).

I’d be keen to know if there’s a way of excluding rubber-band rides from PRs etc, so that my PRs remain representative of my performance.

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