Today, Zwift launched an updated profile page at zwift.com/athlete/me/racing that includes a new Racing Profile and other upgrades. Here’s a quick animation showing what our profile pages currently contain:
New “Racing” Tab
The most interesting tab on the profile page (if you race, at least), the Racing tab shows, among other things:
- A list of all races you’ve completed (click the event name for results). Each race includes your finishing position, category, time gap, average watts and W/kg, more power data under the “Power” view, and event height/weight/HR under the “Vitals” view.
- Your current racing score and 30 day max
- Number of podiums you’ve achieved
- Number of races you’ve completed
Following and Followers
These pages haven’t changed much, except you can now click on a Zwifter to be taken to their profile page.
“Achievements” – Coming Soon
This tab has a message at the top: “Racing Achievements are on the way — we’re working on them and they’ll be here soon.” What does Zwift have planned? I’m not sure. But what I’d love here is a filterable, sortable list of my:
- Race podiums
- Course PRs
- Segment PRs
- Power PRs (even outside of races)
- Achievement badges earned
- Level ups
All of the above would be tagged with the date and a link to the Zwift activity in which they occurred.
Suggestions
There are a few bugs still being worked out, but I’ll leave that for the official thread in Zwift’s forum.
But what else could Zwift add to this page to make it even more useful to Zwifters, particularly racers? One simple upgrade would be to make rider names in event results on zwift.com clickable, so you can easily click to view a competitor’s profile after a race.
Here are a few more ideas:
- Show more results. 10 per page isn’t enough.
- Let us quick-filter results by typing an event title or route name into a search field.
- Display some of the fun data found in our ZwiftPower profiles, including:
- Power charts for 15s, 1-minute, 5-minute, 20-minute in watts and W/kg
- Our power curve, and a way to compare that curve to the curve from a specific race
- Go even bigger and include some of the amazing charts and data from the ZwiftPower ZRS browser extension, including:
- Power source used for each event
- More career stats, including XP, Drops, distance, elevation, etc
- Phenotype detection and snazzier power charts
- 1v1 Head-to-Head profile where you can compare yourself to another Zwifter
- Historic chart of your ZRS (a long-time request from Zwifters!)
- Race rankings which use your ZRS compared to others in your age bracket, weight bracket, country, etc
More Thoughts
Lots of projects could be undertaken to improve the racing experience on Zwift, and having a useful racing profile on zwift.com is one of them. So I’m glad Zwift chose to build this out, and that they’re looking to keep improving it.
We know Zwift isn’t looking to invest much into further development of ZwiftPower, and that’s understandable. But if that’s the case, they need to continue building out their web-based event info/racing results/rider profiles to replace it. This new Racing Profile is just one step in that direction.
But what do you think of the new Racing Profile page? Got ideas for improvements, or other feedback you’d like Zwift to see? Share it below… they’re watching! (You can also chime in on the official Zwift Forum thread.)
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