The Heavy Rider’s Disadvantage “It could be debated if you can call it unfair, but heavy riders do suffer a disadvantage in
W/kg Cats Fail 1: The Sprint Race Catapult
The Zwift W/kg category system needs to go. We have talked about it before. A few times. But it is important to
Why You Should Cheat Too
Sick again. Can’t train, can’t cheat. And it makes no difference whatsoever. In my absence thousands of others are keeping up the
Borg Charting a Cheater
In the wake of my previous studies, proving that winners in cat B-D make a lesser effort than the rest of the
Race Report: 29 Aug 2020, 3R Volcano Climb Race
I should lay low, waiting for the cat downgrade by next month’s end, now that I already have a nice triplet of
Der Untergang
Can you hear the rumbling, people? It may have seemed distant before, but it is creeping closer and closer for every day.
While the Watopia PD Looked the Other Way
Summer vacation drew to a close and now I’m in the city again with days that grow shorter and over 30 min
Cruiser Sunday Studies – Part 3
We turn again to our investigations of ZwiftPower race data. In the second of the recent Cruiser Sunday posts I discussed briefly
Cruiser Sunday Studies – Part 2
In the last blog post I tried to show that the majority of races in Zwift and on ZwiftPower seem to be
Cruiser Sunday Studies – Part 1
As a follow-up to the last couple of posts about cruising and the weird effort limits the W/kg category system imposes on
A Clarification: Cruising Cat B
The other day I posted a reply to a thread on the Zwift forum. If you didn’t get the point of the
The Ethics of Zwift Racing
If you think about sports and games and their rule sets, you can always discern some sort of ethics and ideals in
Why ZwiftPower Must Go
Think about W/kg categories for a second. It’s the bane of fair Zwift racing. We have talked at length about that already.
Are the World Tour Pros Cheating in Other Ways in the Virtual Tour de France?
I concluded in the previous post, on cruising in the Virtual Tour de France, that Zwift races are necessarily brutal in their
Are the World Tour Pros Cruising Virtual Tour de France?
With the Tour For All previously as the debut and now with five of six stages completed in the Virtual Tour de
What You Didn’t Know about Weight Doping
You have probably already heard about weight doping. That by entering a deflated weight in your Zwift profile you will become faster