Zwift Chat

[JonBuoy]

As I understand it (because I had the same query and someone on the Zwift Forums tried to answer it for me) the results page only shows any increase in Racing Score based on results and NOT the increase you might get from having a higher power "seed". This means people who haven't raced in over 90 days can have artificially depressed racing scores enabling them to enter lower pens, which then jump back up to their normal values again after their first race.

Take your race winner - my guess is that they entered the race with a score of about 260, but because they set new 90-day power records, their score leapt up by 200 or so (not shown) plus another 8 from the race (shown). Not much you can do about it unfortunately.

Thanks - that explains it.
I had assumed that when the results show that the winner's ZRS has increased by 8 to 468 he had started the race on 460. Digging into ZwiftPower it looks like he started the race on 214 after a long layoff*. A massive 5 minute PB more than doubled his Racing Score.
The other people in the top couple of positions have similar, but not quite so dramatic, stories.

* I don't think that we can blame the layoff on his loss to Alex as this guy has a different name and nationality

 

[CXRAndy]

Bollocks

Just had a calendar reminder pop up for Friday. Got to be somewhere else!

Arrrgh

 

[alex_cycles]

Bollocks

Just had a calendar reminder pop up for Friday. Got to be somewhere else!

Arrrgh

Dammit. There's always next week.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Had a go at TDZ stage 2 Hell Of The North official race a while ago, tried to push pace through the rolling ramps, then couldn't respond when rest of lead group pushed paced a good ~5mins before Petit KOM started because I was cooked! Then did lower 5-8mins numbers up KOM to crawl in ~28th of ~115 finishers.

Still not sure if I've caught better half's most recent lurgy, I'm not feeling 100%, but also not as bad as she is.

Hopefully I can find the energy to crawl around the medium and long week 2 options this week.

 

[alex_cycles]

* I don't think that we can blame the layoff on his loss to Alex as this guy has a different name and nationality

LMAO. I assumed he'd changed his name and got a new passport after the shame of losing to an old git

 

[alex_cycles]

That went quite well ZRL today. Think I got a top 10 in all the segments...

View: https://www.youtube.com/live/73zTzUIxh1I?si=s51ryJlafw2Xw_kJ&t=197

 

[mjd1988]

That went quite well ZRL today. Think I got a top 10 in all the segments...

View: https://www.youtube.com/live/73zTzUIxh1I?si=s51ryJlafw2Xw_kJ&t=197

Always really helpful to see this ahead of our own race. Only watched snippets but very impressed how you didn't panic when a mini breakaway took off on the climb before the kom you just let the draft do the work and others to panic, then did your own climb

 

[alex_cycles]

Always really helpful to see this ahead of our own race. Only watched snippets but very impressed how you didn't panic when a mini breakaway took off on the climb before the kom you just let the draft do the work and others to panic, then did your own climb

I had enough to contest 3rd on the KoM, but if I had done that, I would have been useless on lap 2, so I decided to take 4th. Then Mike Rowe crept up on me and I had to burn some more to just steal back 4th at the top. Enjoyed it though.
Those three climby women in 1,2,3 are really good at this. They killed it in NY last round as well. I learnt there that although I could keep up with them on one really hard climb, I would pay for it later on. It really helped having raced this exact course on Sunday too.

 

[13 rider]

Good effort Alex , obviously zwift reinstated the team

 

[alex_cycles]

Good effort Alex , obviously zwift reinstated the team

I was co-opted into riding for our other team today. But My team SprockNSnooze had two riders, so enough to continue but not contest.
I enjoyed the race more than I expected. Probably the guys I was racing on Sunday were a bit stronger - either that or the points format suited me better.

 

[steverob]

Well that was an interesting ZRL race. I know I’m back racing in D category again so with my numbers I should be up with the leaders but I figured with all the climbs that I would end up getting dropped at some point. How wrong could I be?

5th place at the finish, with 8th, 6th, 2nd (by 0.004 seconds!) and 6th at the primes! Thoroughly knackered now though.

 

[13 rider]

Well that was an interesting ZRL race. I know I’m back racing in D category again so with my numbers I should be up with the leaders but I figured with all the climbs that I would end up getting dropped at some point. How wrong could I be?

5th place at the finish, with 8th, 6th, 2nd (by 0.004 seconds!) and 6th at the primes! Thoroughly knackered now though.

Well done steve .Just finished mine I was 35th but the team I've been put in got 1 and 2 in the race I may have to up my game 😁. Found myself in a group with 3 other riders from RWB and they tried to gang up on me but I beat them across each segment but 1 of them got me on the line as I went way to early and died a thousand deaths

 

[CXRAndy]

Well done fellas.

 

[alex_cycles]

WTRL are recalculating all the results because they screwed up. All the morning results included the segment which is the whole lap as well as the two intended segments. When pointed out to them, they vigorously denied it, then suddenly all the segment results disappeared and are being recalculated.
Piss-up in a brewery.

 

[13 rider]

WTRL are recalculating all the results because they screwed up. All the morning results included the segment which is the whole lap as well as the two intended segments. When pointed out to them, they vigorously denied it, then suddenly all the segment results disappeared and are being recalculated.
Piss-up in a brewery.

There was a lot of chatter on our discord as we warmed up wether there's was or wasn't a lap segment