Zwift Power - Race lasting less than 20 minutes

Racing ZwiftPower Community
1

Hi there

Are races that last less than 20 minutes factored into the 90 day 20min (95%) power average?
I had read that in this instance your 10min power would be adjusted/estimated to reflect a 20min (95%) power average accordingly?

Thanks

2

You can find all the information on how it is calculated here

(Short answer is yes it does )

3

unfortunately recent races (less than 20min) haven’t been included in my 20min average…

4

What do you mean by that … The 20min column will still be blank , but the 95% for that race will be used to make up one of the 4 averages if it qualifies .

Note the 4 race average calculation from my experience is not done in Real Time , it appears to be batched workload process and can take some time to update .

5

No.

Zwiftpower uses a standard power curve to estimate your 20 mins power in these short races but it’s only used for Category Enforcement for the race.

2 Likes
6

Has that changed from previous methods?
ie… Grahams zwiftpower link above?

7

It’s always been that way but it’s not reflected in the first post in the link Graham provided. It’s referred to in some of the replies.