Race cat

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so frustrated and confused.

  • have not raced in six months
  • have not been on zwift in six months.
  • Wanted to enter a D race to check fitness and not get totally destroyed. I race D also because of heart issues.
  • Had no choice but to race C cat. Got destroyed.
  • Race was won by a B racer who looks to be bouncing back and forth

What gives?

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Sounds like it was probably a racing score event. Your score will not reset over time, but the floor (the lowest score you can reach) will drop when 90 day PRs expire. So each time you finish in roughly the bottom half of the field, your score will go down until it reaches the floor. If it goes down enough then you move to a lower starting pen. The score ranges for the starting pens also vary among different organizers, and Zwift’s ZRacing events have multiple ranges that alternate each hour so you may start in one pen or another based on the ranges in use.

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OK. I think I’m slowly getting it. Sorry for the slow uptake. Question, how do I search on events that will let my racing score go into Ds? Do I just have to go in and keep trying or is there some sort of an indication that can give me an idea?

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Looking at your profile in the Companion app, your current racing score is 277. It went down in your last race, but it’s not at the floor so it’s possible for it to go down further.

If you look at any event you are interested in, you can see the score ranges for the various starting pens. In the ZRacing events, there are two variants relevant to you (range 1 and range 2) which alternate each hour. In range 1, the D pen is for people with a score from 160-269, so with a score of 277 that puts you in the C pen. In range 2, the D pen is for people with a score from 210-329, so there you would be allowed in D. In range 2 you are somewhere in the middle of the D pen, whereas in range 1 you are at the bottom of the C pen in terms of score.

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Thank you. Makes sense. I just did a race where there were only seven people in it but my race car dropped 253. I was sitting in fifth and then just backed off and finish the race. When I got to the finish line I magically jump to third. Does that mean that there were two people who did the race, blew it up because they were a high D racing score and then bailed out before the end, so they didn’t get recorded and thus adjuster score. Forcing a potential upgrade.

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It does look like there are only 3 finishers in your last race, out of 7. I don’t know about the motivations of the non-finishers. If they wanted to drop their score they could have done something more like what you did, but maybe that seemed too boring. Hard to say.