Thanks for reading and replying, lads but maybe I wasn’t clear in my pitch.
Let’s say that I search through the coming weeks events and I see a TT that takes place in five days time.
I would like to enter this TT but if I enter it today, I will be the first off the start line on Friday.
I can’t do that as I need to get home and ready for it.
If I could enter late, my start time is later and this gives me vital minutes to get ready.
But as the event is five days away, i forget about it.
If I could highlight an upcoming event and get a reminder beforehand without actually entering, job done.
I can then see how many riders are in front of me, have a good idea of what my start time will be and decide whether I can make it back home and get ready in time.
This isn’t exactly the solution you are looking for, but might provide a sort of workaround: I, too, do not like to be the first off the line. I don’t generally catch many people (if any), but it’s nice to at least have someone to chase. So, I have sometimes signed up for the event (even if this means getting assigned that ‘top of the hour’ starting slot) so that the event shows up in my list. Then, when the event gets close, I will cancel my sign up, and then sign up again. Most of the time I will get a different time, but not always. Might be worth a shot for you, though. Alternatively, perhaps just put a reminder in your phone to sign up at a certain date and time.
Or just sign up for the event and tick the box to add it to your calendar, then edit the calendar entry. That way you can add a reminder much earlier than the 60mins maximum offered by the app, or edit the name etc.
Yeah, I’ve tried that method in the past but I always returned to the original, usually first off start position.
The other solutions don’t work but I really appreciate the input, thanks everyone.
How I envisage a solution is this.
In the current CA, you can find a future event and enter it.
Once you have done that, when you are back on your home page, that event is listed first and has a green tick saying that you are going.
If we could search for an event, find it and then have an option to tick an ‘interested’ icon. Instead of the + symbol, entering you into the event, maybe a question mark indicating your interest.
Then back on the home screen, that event also appears towards the top of the events list and instead of a green tick, it has a blue question mark, for example meaning I haven’t entered the TT yet but I am considering it and hopefully have some influence on my start time.
Because, in the past when I’ve entered a TT, removed myself and then entered the same event again, I always get my early start time and original position.
A reminder in the app.
A “Phill, you forgetful muppet, you are interested in this event, have a look at the start sheet!” option is what’s needed.
@James_Zwift: regarding EVENT start times (as opposed to individual start times for a specific event), is there any chance to ‘mix up’ the start times for ‘Zwift Time Trial Tuesday’? Presently the times available to me (MDT) for these events are:
Midnight: Sleeping
4am: Sleeping
8am: Work
Noon: Work
4pm: Work
8pm: Too late, winding down for bed
When we move to MST for the winter it’s really not much better, though 7pm can sometimes be an option. It would be nice (at least for me) if the times could advance by an hour each week, or something along those lines, so that every so often there would be an event a 6am or 6pm, for example. Or, alternatively, perhaps just make events every 2 hours. Thoughts?
On this, I’ve always thought they should have a day long TT event but you would need to be able to select your start time…
You race against the entire days efforts, you pick when you want to start and go off the grid or just having a rolling grid and you enter when your ready.
So have an option to have local time displayed or not.
Personally, I would like it or the alternative approach as Zwift seems to be completely against making their subscription platform user friendly is for me to pop down to the shops and buy a clock I hang on to the wall.
With regards to the ‘interested’ or ‘reminder’ option, I’ll just enter anything that catches my eye and if when the time comes, I miss the event by 10 minutes, so be it.
I’ll just explore the great outdoors instead and go looking for my dummy.
I fully support HUD customisation but that has been asked for for as long as I can remember and all they did was give you the option to remove everything!
I know you would like option to include a local time clock and that you have now bought a clock. However if you don’t mind riding in windowed mode there are plenty of downloadable clocks you can add or just watch the taskbar clock.
