Ive gone through a period of time where I took abreak from exercise. I didnt race or use zwift for more than 90 days. When I stopped my zwift racing score was around 545. I have recently returned at a significantly lower fitness level and completed a couple races. Zwift has still got me assigned to the 450-570 category where I have literally no chance of keeping up with the bunch. The first two races I finished near the end and my zwift racing score dropped to 529. Today I did another race but decided to just sit in zone 2 and use it as a training ride with the idea that it would probably lower my zwift racing score further. After finishing the race dead last by about 18 minutes my zwift racing score is at 529 still.
In past I have found racing very motivating for increasing fitness, however, starting out again in a category where Ive got no chance of keeping up is having the opposite effect.
Can anyone tell me what do I need to do to reduce my score so that I can race in lower categories more in line with my current fitness level?
Well, the obvious observation is not that your ZRS is wrong rather your form is down from a period of inactivity or possibly a health issue.
Perhaps racing is not in your cards and you need to focus on safe training and exercise.
Doing a zone 2 in a race is somewhat inappropriate because your non racing presence does affect the scores of others.
Your ZRS will decay from inactivity.
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Z2ing a race will not change your ZRS because your level of effort was lower than a race effort. Finishing 18 minutes off the pace doesn’t matter, finishing last with a real effort will reduce your ZRS though. So do some races, ride hard, finish last or at least in the bottom quarter and your ZRS will decrease. A 529 ZRS is a solid B CE category and if you’re not capable of putting down that kind of race effort but race to your capability, you’ll eventually get into the <450 pen where you probably belong. Just don’t sandbag races.
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Decay should have dropped it a lot if you really stopped racing for 90 days, we’ll under 450. Something smells fishy here. Private account, can’t find you on zwiftpower.
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Yeah Ive read various posts on here which indicate ZRS resets after 90 days of inactivity but in my case it has not.
I am on zwiftpower, not sure why youre unable to locate me. You prompted me to log into just now, the last time I did was middle of last year. I might have a setting that prevents me being found in there, will need to look through ans see what settings I have selected.
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The rider search on zwiftpower always fails me. I found you on zwiftracing.app right away. Decay should’ve dropped your score by a lot, something is stopping it?
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Yeah it doesn’t seem right so I think I’ll ask support to have a look at it.