It’s likely you hit a PB over the last 90 days for those sections, if that’s the case you can go to your feed on zwift.com after logging in, in the “Fitness” section you can see all your PBs for various power intervals, where hopefully you will see your 30s and 2 min powers from that ride. The 30s is an actual category, but the 2min category is not there, so you’ll need to switch to the ‘data’ tab and use the power curve to check it out.
Alternatively you can upload your data to intervals.icu via strava, and there’s easy ways to check your power there.
Tbf both of those are different issues - I don’t think it’s a 1.51 release. There was a fix applied a few releases back to the specific issue of free ride in a workout on the atom - it’s been around for ages as an issue.
It’s fixed on windows, doesn’t look like it on ATV.
You have worded your question very carefully - “ having done … I didn’t do group workout”
Having done an individual group workout I can’t help you gain the after the event information you are requesting.
Can I take it that in future knowing what information you want you know that some of this information is available through screenshots, Ride Report Critical Power and if you are in Group Workouts through ZwiftPower.
As a lover of statistical/numerical analysis I certainly recommend signing up to intervals.icu at a very small monthly voluntary subscription, they give you all this information in plenty of detail.
Earned the ZA kit after completing workout 1 this morning and now it has vanished from my garage. Maybe my subpar performance wasn’t worthy after further review.
@manda_F the dates in the ZA tile in-game say the races start November 6, can this be corrected to display the actual dates the events will be available? The same issue existed with Tour of Watopia Stage 5.
don’t y’all remember all the issues we had last year with the baseline ride… the phenotype emails being blank with no info… the lack of any meaningful information… etc…
I would say they learned from these mistakes and cut all that out as it was not a good experience. I think the program was 4 weeks last year… hardly enough time to increase fitness with just a few short, less than 60 minute workouts.
I have an issue with the Zwift Academy workout…yesterday I decided to do one with a friend, from the workout drop down menu. I created a meet up with my friend, set the mode to rubber band to keep us together, then once in the meet up, we both selected the Workout 1 …now post ride, it is not showing that we have completed the first workout. The group workout times are not ideal for me, and I prefer riding with my friends anyway…what is the work around to get credit for the workout please?
I’m excited to share that this year, I’ll be participating in the ZWIFT ACADEMY for the first time. I’ve heard so many great things about it and can’t wait to dive into the experience. However, I have a question that has been on my mind, and I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Considering that the goal of the ZWIFT ACADEMY is to discover talent, does it make sense for someone like me with a power-to-weight ratio of around 3-3.5w/kg to participate? Why should someone with less than 5w/kg consider taking part? Is it primarily for the sake of enjoyment and fun, or could there be other benefits that I might not be aware of?
I’m looking forward to hearing from those who have been a part of the ZWIFT ACADEMY before or have insights into this. Your perspectives would be highly appreciated.
They are not really workouts this year rather tests or benchmarking, so no point repeating them without doing proper workouts first too see if you improve, this is definitely
not a training programme.
ZA has always been about discovering (young) talent AND giving the rest (not so young, and/or not so talented, like me) an opportunity to test our fitness on the bike and do some structured training at the same time. ZA is not a training plan on its own, if you really want to improve your fitness in these 6 weeks, you need to do some other training (and resting) as well. As a training plan, ZA is not the best solution on its own. Zwift has training plans that are better and other platforms than Zwift arguably have better focused training plans. The nice and special thing about ZA is that it attracts a lot of people and there is a feeling of being on a training journey together. This years set-up however, is less social than it has been in other years, with no (easier) group rides (led by pro’s) and no baseline / finish line rides to train together. The reason I still want to participate is that I’ve done all ZA’s from 2017 and I think it is good to test yourself on different interval lengths, to have my own (training) benchmarks for the upcoming season.
Did the first workout today. I liked the longer format, but was very disappointed to discover that the rubberbanding was turned off. Why oh why!? The whole reason to do a group workout rather than a solitary one is for the company.
I never liked the baseline rides, and just happen to be in the mood for a bit of testing, so the overall format looks good to me.
Well, last year they had a baseline, a set of structured workouts, and a final test to see improvement from the structured workout plan compared to the baseline. It does imply the purpose was to make gains. Now, you can argue that it’s almost impossible to make significant gains outside of noob gains in only 4 weeks, but they at least structured it to not only be the onramp to the pro program, but also at least one training block for the general Zwift community.
With this year, they do talk about it as “6 weeks of structured training” on the main webpage, and in this thread they say “ZA is a pro-level program that delivers serious fitness gains” but really the workouts are way more geared to testing your limits in a few scenarios, and really it’s not a 6 week training plan, therefore more focused on narrowing down the field for the ZA pro contracts. Not to say you can’t make gains from it, but it does seem less tailored to making gains this year than last.
So yes, this year it shifted to be more about testing various limits, but they still talk about it being a structured training plan and something that “delivers serious fitness gains” as per the first post in this thread.
I do like that the long workouts are actually longer this time, so each of them will take a good amount of effort to get through, but I decided personally to not do the ZA workouts this year since it feels more like a set of tests to run alongside a program, and not really an actual end to end 6 week (or even 3 week) structured plan.
I feel really let down by the lack of women’s only races. It’s hard finding Zwift races with a decent sized women’s field but they would have likely achieved this with the ZA races because ZA is so popular.
I’ve only just started to dabble in Zwift racing, but I find mixed racing quite demoralising. Although my W/Kg are good, it’s hard to keep up on the flat because my absolute power is less than a lot of men’s, and it’s just depressing getting dropped on the descents despite going into the red because I’m 20+kg lighter.
It’s a real missed opportunity for Zwift to improve women’s engagement with and experience of the sport, a massive inclusivity fail. I hope they rectify it.
I would go to the warm-up pens early and find out who is racing all out and who wants to race as a women’s only group. This has happened in the past. We rode as a pack for the first lap, then we raced in earnest. It’s not much of a solution, but it is better than merely seeing who can draft the men’s pack the longest.
