Zwift Games: Stage 2: Jurassic Coast: C

[@marcdoucette3380]

Good race Roland! You put in a lot of work on that one!

[@crankgreenwatts]

Well done and a solid effort 👏

[@Cockapooandbooks]

Looked tough...Well done

[@aperson7382]

Tough course surprisingly hard at the start. You will be in B cat soon. Ride On!!

[@doomguyzwifting]

Good stuff

[@andrewdechamp8678]

Looks like a tough race, how did you get the Canada jersey?

[@FigBug]

I got it by participating in the national championships. But I think you can also get it doing the weekly Cycling Canada rides.

[@KoiFan]

You are strong but you should’ve saved energy for the final sprint

[@FigBug]

Yeah, I didn't want the group behind to catch so I was trying to push the pace. Would have rather sprinted out of a smaller group.

[@johnpyle2]

These races are fun but, people racing out of their category kinda ruins racing.

[@doomguyzwifting]

How can someone race out of category?

[@johnpyle2]

@@doomguyzwifting they sign up for a race below their average watts per kilogram. Zwift needs to hold people accountable. Kinda sucks when people cheat at a virtual race.

[@timolonden]

There’s a thing called category enforcement, which restricts signing into wrong categories. So if you race as hard as you can, you will automatically be upgraded to the next cat after a while. Ofc there will be a time that for a while you’re at the very top of those power limits. Then there will always be people who just sit in the pack for the races, and push only for key climbs or final sprint and never exceed the cat power limits. But I’d say weight doping is even worse.

[@johnpyle2]

@@timolonden top 10 in my last race averaged 2.7-3.1 in a Zwift category D. And not all races are cat enforced

[@timolonden]

They changed the calculations beyond avg watts (don’t know why), but they now use zFTP, zMAP, Vo2Max and pure power calculated over the last 90 days. Maybe they should make the cat avg numbers reflect the change?