In a race on Tuesday someone put out put out 420 watts for 40 minutes. Not impossible, but this was a female who seems to otherwise potter round on an MTB at 12mph.
Given here rapid rise to A+ cat she seems to have developed a taste for racing. I did post a slightly sarcastic comment on Strava, but she took it as a compliment - obviously oblivious…
In a race today another female rider but out 4.3w/kg for an hour. OK, doable, but would be fairly elite, again not really backed up by reality. Again, I don’t think she is purposely cheating, just obviously thinks that is how good she is.
It’s not that I am picking on female riders - it’s just it stands out a little more when you see high watts.
That aside, is there anywhere to flag this so someone can just send them a friendly message saying your numbers don’t look quite right?
To be honest I’m surprised the first case wasn’t picked up in ZwiftPower - didn’t they use to flag super high wattage?
Will give this a go as it is only post race I look at the numbers.
There really should be a way of flagging this without having to contact support. Let this kind of thing go and it really damages the credibility of Zwift racing.
I.e. if every female rider who beats me has slightly suspicious power what does this mean for the 99% of Zwifters who are male?
I don’t expect to be winning anything, but having some confidence in other people’s numbers would be nice…
This is something which is active since the beginning. You can’t control which Powermeter/Smarttrainer people are using and therefore discrepancies like this will be case over and over again till the point zwift is coming up with a method that works. Till then i recommend using: zwiftpower.com
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