Hello. It would be great if the timer would stop while we are off our treadmills to use the bathroom or get more drinks, etc. It destroys the average pace and what the workout looks like graphically to have one ir several multi-minute stops in the middle of a run, etc. if the treadmill is set to zero, we’re not making any progress, so what would be nice to have the time stop also.
One alternative might be to have a total time and a running time like we have on our watches.
Thank you for your consideration.
If you stop running IRL the click doesn’t stop ticking and your average pace will drop as a result. Do you want to pretend you’re capable of a 4 minute mile by compiling lots of short sprints with rests in between?
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The thing is, most of the runners I see on the road will pause the watch waiting for a redlight, or if they stop to fill up a bottle. As a trail runner, I just shake my head, don’t even pause my watch if I’m dead!
@Jon_Odwazny , if you export your runs to Strava, you should see both elapsed and moving time there
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Its 50:50, a good number of people will want it to keep running at all times, which leads you to needing a user setting for the choice, and then maintaining that setting between releases, and then decisions around how to treat timed things like Alpe du Zwift so you now probably have to track both time and moving time, so maybe a manual pause button but then you probably need an auto-restart option for folks who start pedalling again but forget to restart the timer, and …
Simple things are never actually simple. They often need a lot of analysis of use cases, trying to capture all scenarios, then assessment of development time, and somewhere along the line some cost and ‘how important is this’ choices.
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I know that, Colin, but you did not understand my reason for asking for the adjustment. Your talking about running a mile makes me think you are a sprinter, so I will explain. Long distance runners appreciate knowing their pace while moving as well as the pace that has been diluted with off-treadmill/non-running time. After just a few hours, it gets hard to remember how many minutes were lost for bathroom breaks, refilling water bottles, getting more food, changing shoes, etc. It would be nice to just be able to look at the screen and get an accurate picture of time and pace while running and also how much time was lost off the treadmill.
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I wonder if what you are after (realtime display of actual running pace) can be done using QZ on a tablet next to the treadmill. Myself, I’ve never cared about pace or stopped time while running, as long as I’m making cutoffs I’m happy.
I’m certainly not a sprinter. I’m more an ultra person. I only used that as a simple example.
What matters to me is my average pace and that includes taking into account any stopped time. If I’m doing a 24 hour event there’s no point knowing what my moving pace is without taking into account fuelling stops and so on.
However, I think we can all agree that Zwift should be doing a better job of making more data fields available/customisable on scree, whether that’s for running or for cycling.
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Hi Colin.
Ultras? Nice.
Like Bryan and Mark said, there are probably other ways to do this, but it would be nice just to have that second clock on there.
Right, then you know this well: knowing your average running speed is useless without knowing that you also had 2 hours 15 minutes of sitting down time, and knowing that you started 4 hours 30 minutes ago means nothing if you don’t know how much of that time you weren’t actually moving.
I don’t know how hard it is to put a second clock at the top of the screen, but I know it would help every Runner or cyclist who has to stop even one time during their exercise session. That’s why cyclocomputers stop automatically at red lights.
Hope your winter base building is going well!
I will disagree, it would be of no help for me at all, unless Zwift had it on a toggle so I could disable it. I disable auto-pause on my Suunto, and when I was riding ultra-distance it was disabled on my Garmin. For me, it’s always been “Train like you race”, and when you’re out there the clock never stops.
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