Zwift Chat

[alex_cycles]

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Latest ride on zwift after trainer firmware update date , I was trying to keep the power fairly even ,the power line looks a bit wobbly and uneven thoughts ?

The important thing from the point of view of "sticky watts" is that you don't have flat-top peaks for several seconds if you stop pedalling.
The basic premise of "not cheating in Zwift" is that you are not getting Watts for free.

In the real world, power meter charts are incredibly spiky unless there is some serious time averaging going on. In Training and Racing with a Power meter they recommend using 3s average (for your live display) or your numbers jump up and down all over the place and are pretty-much unreadable.

I think Garmin FIT files record data every 1s, but that data is obviously averaged to make it meaningfully useful

 

[Peter Salt]

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Latest ride on zwift after trainer firmware update date , I was trying to keep the power fairly even ,the power line looks a bit wobbly and uneven thoughts ?

It doesn't look quite right to me, especially this last punch:

 

[mjd1988]

Any upcoming race series? Low on motivation

 

[Whorty]

Any upcoming race series? Low on motivation

I have 2 more rids to upgrade the Zwift mountain fully, then I'm starting on the Tron upgrades ... I'll pick randoms flatter races to try to max the speed to time ratio to get max miles per ride. I'll do some workouts too to try ang get some lost fitness back
Next series I think is Sept for ZRL? (Or is it DRS?). I just turn up when the captain tells me too haha

 

[Whorty]

Time to start the long upgrade on the Tron
I recon at least 18 months to do this. I'll do the odd Atheos ride too to get that fully upgraded for hillier races. Once the Tron is within seconds of the SL8 in a race then I'll stay on the Tron as my main race bike (drafting easily makes up for the odd lost second on a flatter course).

Only 8000Km left to get to level 5

 

[mjd1988]

Time to start the long upgrade on the Tron
I recon at least 18 months to do this. I'll do the odd Atheos ride too to get that fully upgraded for hillier races. Once the Tron is within seconds of the SL8 in a race then I'll stay on the Tron as my main race bike (drafting easily makes up for the odd lost second on a flatter course).

Only 8000Km left to get to level 5
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Fair play. I still have a way to go to get the zwift steel bike upgraded and then 2 more! Was focusing on the cadex tri but the last upgrade takes forever (although most of the benefits are weighted for the 5th upgrade so I'll still plug away).

I think it's a good idea to focus on the Tron because other frames may depreciate/be replaced as fastest but the Tron should always be competitive