So, a great event, BUT ….. why are there riders racing out of category still? though the new racing score was meant to fix this? I entered Stage 1 in the 0-100 band / category. I averaged 2W/kg for the stage. I came 77th!!! The person who won from our group averaged 3.4W/kg and had efforts well e…

[image] Chris_D9: Everyone is different I believe Carl’s point was using each person’s individual HR over time to determine if they are putting in a minimal effort or not. Not comparing my HR to yours and the other people in the race. But yeah, off topic and not important

Correct and I cannot be bothered to even go into the amount of time you are individually able to stay in each of your five HR zones both individual segments and cumulative totals over the whole ridewith age playing a significant role. The level the AI would need to go to would probably be challenged…

Long live ZwiftPower, zwift GC is no good.

It gets to be more useful as you enter higher level races where the vast majority are registered for ZwiftPower and zwiftracing.app. I imagine its all over the place for the lower zrs pens.

I just raced at the 0-160 and it’s disgraceful how much power zwift thinks it’s acceptable to be competitive at the very very bottom. It thinks 2.4 is the very minimum a rider has. I will NEVER get close to this. I can only imagine the failure gets worse the higher up the rankings you get. They …

Head over to the HERD Beginner Races for a lower E pen and flat routes. [image] A Case For F and G Racing Categories Racing There is one weekly series where the lowest category is 0-125 and the highest allowed racing score in any category is 425. It’s put on b…

I guess it depends on the race but the ZRC looks to be working pretty well for the last race I did. The 160-270 race needed me to average 251W for the win or 2.6Wkg so pretty much on the button for a D Cat race at 2.5W/kg upper limit. People are using the ZRS score decay over time to enter the pen…

[image] Carl: The 160-270 race needed me to average 251W for the win or 2.6Wkg so pretty much on the button for a D Cat race at 2.5W/kg upper limit. This is a coincidence. In racing score events there is no 2.5W/kg upper limit to average power. There are no categories, just starting pens with…

All comes down to luck as to the race participants you get. Clearly my race had less people that had been sandbagging to get there ZRS down to below 270 or they wouldn’t be able to get into the start pen. My ZRS is now 283, I could no longer enter the same race so as far as I’m concerned the ZRS is …

[image] Carl_Watts: The main problem is now the next race I have entered is like 210 - 330 so its probably going to be a total waste of time to try and race it, no way I will be holding the main bunch at the front. because basically they are C Cat riders anyway. But in real life bike races if…

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