I will be the first to admit that I haven’t always followed this advice. But here goes:
Venting about a problem doesn’t help you. It doesn’t make you feel better, or release tension. It just makes you feel worse.
Yeah: It’s disappointing that Zwift’s App has developed this bug. And I’m not trying to excuse or blow off a failure.
But I do think we all (me included!!) need to keep things in perspective.
Zwift still works. I can still ride all the routes in Watopia, in London and New York. I can climb Alpe du Zwift or the Volcano. I can meet up with friends. Ride in races or Fondos. I can still actually do the workouts in the various training plans. And when the rides are over I can export the results to Strava or Garmin or wherever.
It’s just that whatever array or database or whatever that Zwift own internal structured training system has gotten messed up somehow.
Out of the total Zwift experience, what percentage is that? Five? Three?
As I said: This is an annoyance. It needs to be fixed. But let’s not any of us blow it out of proportion.
Why do I say this: Because I know how hard that can be to do sometimes. Some of the workouts, especially on the Build Me Up plan, are very challenging. You’ve been sweating, and hurting, and pushing yourself for sixty or ninety minutes or more. You are breathing hard. You are drenched with sweat. You’ve pushed yourself through the pain. And you’ve gotten the job done.
Your adrenaline or testosterone or whatever is pumping through your veins. And then the App suggests that you didn’t really do what you know you just did. It’s insulting. It’s infuriating.
But it’s also pretty meaningless. The App isn’t a person. It’s just a piece of software. And - truth be told - no one ever is going to care whether Zwift’s App recognises your completion of a structured training plan workout. No one.
If, for some reason, I was hiring somebody to be a professional Zwift bike racer - I wouldn’t care about what badges they had. Your wife, or girlfriend, or boyfriend, or room-mate, or boss doesn’t care. It simply just doesn’t matter.
So I’m telling myself, and I’m telling all the other Zwifters out there. The same very competitive, and proud, and strong, and hardworking people - just push yourself a little bit harder on this issue.
Let it go. Laugh about it. If Zwift hasn’t gotten it fixed in a month or two, revisit the issue.
But don’t let it make you mad. If you do, then you are letting the Bug win. And I think we’re all too strong to let a silly, meaningless bug in a computer program beat us.
Right?
