I have been using Zwift for running for a long time, and there were several bugs that have been around for a long time, I wanted to make sure they are being tracked as I’m sure there aren’t as many runners as there are cyclists.
I’m using the Zwift workouts, and all issues related to those:
- “Fartlek Interval” workout is great, but when you have 4 minutes of cooldown, it always mentions “5 minutes of cooldown”. So this is just a text change. This mistake has been there for years.
- When you do a workout, it usually shows you a visual arch in the game. Telling you where you have to run. This is supposed to be highly motivating, such as you sprint and you have to get to the arch. Unfortunately, arches are never placed correctly. Whatever my speed is, it always places them too close and then moves them. Most of the time it places it 1m in front of my avatar, and then keeps moving constantly. It’s very annoying because it’s hard to see the rest of the game (I use Zwift mostly for the visuals), it kills motivation because it’s just randomly placed. A very simple average of current speed to get the estimated distance would get much better results then what is currently implemented. I suspect the issue is because its estimating average bike time?
- I’m able to physically do every workout, even 5/5 effort ones. But there is a workout “Endurance Run”, that is insane, absolutely impossible for me. The workout increases incline constantly and gets up to 10% incline, and it starts at pretty high speed (7mph for me). Even if I was running more than 1mph under the required speed, and I only increased inclines by 1% instead of the 2% each time it requested, my watch still logged this as the most difficult effort I did all year. My guess is this workout was made by someone that constantly trains for elevation (I only do a couple of times per month). I would not remove the workout, but I think adding some warning in the description could be helpful (Warning: This workout requires prior intense elevation training). Or add more levels for efforts, out of 10 instead of out of 5.
#2 is definitely the most important fix if someone would be able to look into it please!