Zwift - inclination data from the treadmill

Have an interesting topic. Today I had a first run on Zwift. I know from the other topics here, that Zwift does not support inclination data at all from any device - it just reads speed from the treadmill and eventually cadence from foot pod. Now, during the today’s run I changed incline for a moment and later after export to Strava and Garmin I saw something on elevation chart. So i made a test - started a run on Zwift, increased incline after 200 m, then reduced to 0, then increased, decreased, and so on, increasing and decreasing speed each time. After import do Garmin Connect, that is what I saw…

It seems, Zwift fully supports inclination readout and it is 100% accurate :clap:. Maybe it would be some sort of idea to include this information in the Zwift running workout interface - if there is some incline on the route and there is a setting on the treadmill of 0%, maybe it should suggest to set it higher, in the same manner as “spin faster” and “more power” in bike mode. :))

I agree.

The inclination motor on my treadmill broke so I jammed it at 2 degrees as that’s what I always set it to anyway (don’t know why, but I just did!). I have the RUNN device which measures speed, cadence and incline and my runs when exported to Strava and “map my run” all show an even incline! Not linked to the incline shown in Zwift etc.

I have brought up a similar topic on the running with power tab. I think adding the incline data would be great.

RunCline app is great for recording incline to zwift from treadmill spirit xt685. However RunCline recorde incline at 10x. Notice this was problem with spirit xt385 which RunCline fixed so hopefully will do same with xt685.