The COVID-19 lockdown period, now in its third month around the world, has seen an unprecedented boom in virtual cycling. Racing on the Zwift virtual platform has only increased, with the professionals getting in on the act, too, via the Zwift Tour for All, the Virtual Tour of the Gila, an💎d e-races organised by Team Ineos.
If you're on Zwift and planning to 𝓰get racing, 𝓰then signing up to the third-party app is an essential step. But what exactly is ZwiftPower and how does it work? Read on for our guide on how the app works, how to get set up, and how to analyse your racing.
What is ZwiftPower?
Put simply, 🔯ZwiftPower is a community-driven website that complements the Zwift app. It lets Zwift racers and race organisers track results and check out all the details of the races they've participated in, as w▨ell as monitoring and analysing their data.
It's possible to check just about any kind of Zwift result using ZwiftPower, with the website sortable by leagues, race series and segments. It's also p🍒ossible to fil🌠ter results and data by categories, such as different age or power ranges.
There's a forum, too, so that users can discuss o♕ngoing race series, find out about upcoming events and have any queries answered and problems solved. It's a real community hub.
Think of ZwiftPower, then, as something similar to Strava, only entirely Zwift-focused, and free! Aಞnd as well as your race results, 𝕴you can check your distance ridden, total metres climbed, power peaks from one second up to 75 minutes, and more besides.
and hover your mouse cursor over the 'Download' button under one of your activities.
Doing this will bring up a box at the bottom of the browser showing a web address – something similar to: //s3-fit-prd-uswest2-zwift.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/000000/a2e1b7f8-27610843. The six-digit number highlig꧒hted in bolꦏd will be your Zwift ID.
Now head back to ZwiftPower, click 'Connect' at the top of the page, then enter your Zwift ID in the box when promptꦛed. You'll receive a four-digit code, which you'll then have to add to your last name back in your Z💃wift settings (you can change it back after the process is completed).
Finally, just head back to ZwiftPower and click 'Connect to my Account'. That's it! It's 🌸a bit more complicated than most website sign-ups, but now you'll be all ready to get started.
How to make progress on ZwiftPower
We mentioned categories ꧑earlier as one of the ways in which you can search thro🔴ugh your results and statistics, but they're also a method by which you get sorted into races.
This is done by separating riders based on their 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:FTP (functional threshold power) – a wattage test you canౠ take part in on Zwift over a 20-minute, 45-minute or 1-hour period.
ಞRaces can use different schemes to categorise riders♏, but most of them use this scheme:
Categories
A+: 4.6w/kg FTP, 300w FTP or higher
A: 4.02w/kg FTP or higher
Cat B: 3.2w/kg to 4.0w/kg FTP
Cat C: 2.5w/kg to 3.2w/kg FTP
Cat D: Under 2.5w/kg FTP
You can, of course, progress ജthrough the ranks as you race. To move up to the next rank, ZwiftPower will take 95 per cent of your 20-minute average 🌱w/kg figure from your previous three races. If you're putting out enough power, then you can make your way up the ranks and keep on racing.
