In spite of 4 or 5 races that I am completing each week my racing points have remained unchanged in the past 2 weeks, why is it so? I am thus constantly falling down in the general ranking. For each completed race I understand that I should get some points, even if not many.
In addition, I was last year a C rider but suddenly was classified in December as a B rider by Zwift. Why? B races are much too hard for me: I cannot ride more than 5 kmwith the other riders and has to continue riding alone or with 2 or 3 lonely riders. I am 66 years old and donāt see the logic and reason why I should race as a B rider!
Thanks for any explanations which are very welcome.
Your race ranking is based on the average of your 5 best results in past 90 days. Your Ranking is 371 and the worst of your 5 best results is 403. If you have a race result of worse/higher than 403 the result goes on your record but it doesnāt help your Ranking score.
On 30/11/2023 you put in efforts of 20 min @ 3.6w/kg and 5 min @ 4.3w/kg. The 3.6 effort is likely to take your zFTP above 3.36 but Iām sure your 4.3 effort will also be your zMAP effort and that is certainly cat B standard.
Yep, zMAP promotion almost certainly, just like me. It really sucks if you enjoy racing and it wasnāt as if I was winning every event I entered as a lot are flat and my sprint is quite poor, while on hilly races there were plenty of Dās who could challenge and beat me.
You could try joining events like the VTTA TT starting in a few minutes that combines all abilities together.
Thanks for the explanations. I think I will stop riding like mad. I need 3 hours to recover and just achieve the opposite of my goals. On top of that, the fun of racing is goneā¦.
Peter, you may want to look at masters racing. Iām aware of FZR on a Thursday and SA on a Wednesday (there may be others). These are based on standard cycling age groups, and are mass starts. Up the front they are very strong with plenty of riders in A+ & A category, however there are riders from all categories so you should find that you get a competitive workout.
Iām not too sure where you are based, so the time might not suit you, the Masters SA race is today at 16:15 GMT. Of the present entrants 20 minute power ranges from 5.4 to 2.6 w/kg.
As Iām based in the UK Iāve only paid attention to races that suit me, Iām not too sure about events for riders in other parts of the world, I used to enjoy the ZHR Masters series that had races scheduled throughout the day, but they sadly stopped a couple of years ago. It does seem strange when you see how many of us oldies are using Zwift that there arenāt more events based on age groups. Presently Iām competitive(ish) in cat B, but can imagine that over the coming years my performance will decline, and Iāll be dropping further back through the field.
If you look at the results page on zwiftpower for that masters race, click the ācolumnsā option and then āreset view,ā use right cursor key to scroll to the far rightā¦
You will now see a āresultā column (one in from āgainā column), you scored 415.9, which is a little higher than your worst best five result in the last 90 days (403.12). If you had finished one place higher, your result would have been 399.8, consequently your ranking score would have dropped a tiny bit.