Hey Colin, appreciate you reporting this! You’ve fallen into an interesting edge case in our backend.
We have some old mechanisms in place to flag activities as “suspicious” if they are unusual compared to recent power output history. These mechanisms were actually put in place for the old power-based category enforcement system so that if a trainer was mis-calibrated or there was a one-off unusual power reading, it wouldn’t throw the profile into an unrealistic category. It looks like you did enough activities at a lower power output this fall before hopping into racing and the system is incorrectly marking all of your recent activities as suspicious and ignoring them in the downstream racing score calculations.
We’re discussing how to handle this edge case moving forward. This would’ve resolved itself after you consistently did activities w/ higher power stats, but to speed things up I’ve updated your data so that next time you do an activity it’ll process the ZRS calculations as expected. Thanks again for raising and apologies for the confusing experience.
Ahh okay, so I was initially was using a running foot pod and a very basic spin bike at the gym when I first joined Zwift. The foot pod picked up my cadence but I had no way of connecting the power data from this old gym bike so I was just pedaling around exploring and taking whatever wattage Zwift thought I was producing. Usually Zwift would put me at 80-100 watts even though I was, in reality, pushing out some where in the 200-240 range.
Fast forward to early September; I bought a Zwift ride/kickr combo. This is where you’ll see my real power numbers start to be picked up. I completely understand how this could be flagged as suspicious since I went from virtually zero power to pushing real numbers overnight.
I appreciate you taking the time to review my issue. Let me know if there is anything I can do on my to help.
Appreciate the extra context w/ the equipment switch - that timing lines up with what I saw in the database. Let us know if you see any issues with where your score ends up after a couple activities.
Does this have anything to do with the sticky ‘11’ scores in ZRS? Pulling a couple random recent examples though, it looks like an 11 is code for not producing (yet) a realistically true 30s power metric?