Zwift Camp: Baseline is now underway, with over 210,000 Zwifters taking part so far in this new style of assessment-oriented training program.
I’m one of those Zwifters, and have been sharing my experience in this three-part series (one for each section of the program):
As you may or may not know, each of these sections consists of two activities: first a workout, then a test. I cover the endurance workout and test below.
Endurance Elevator Workout
The Endurance Elevator workout has you tackle multiple longer intervals at or near your FTP. The full workout is 59 minutes long with 3 hard intervals, while the lite version is 33 minutes long with 2 intervals. Here’s what the workouts look like with my FTP set at 310W:
I went with the full 59-minute workout and did it as an on-demand workout because that was the only way to get it done early. I chose to ride the workout on Watopia’s Road to Sky route because I prefer the visuals of a steady climb when doing longer, steady work at sweet spot or threshold.
Watch me ride this workout:
I went into this workout figuring it would involve some steady suffering. But it turned out to be significantly harder than anticipated. The toughest workout so far in this program, in fact!
After a warmup with three 30-second efforts to get your blood pumping, riders are tasked with completing 3 intervals at or near FTP. Here are my intervals:
- 10 minutes at 310W (100% FTP) and 90rpm
- 9-minute ramp from 280-340W (90-110% of FTP) broken into 3 cadence-based blocks
- 3 minutes at 85rpm
- 3 minutes at 80rpm
- 3 minutes at 75rpm
- 10 minutes at 310W (100% FTP) broken into 5 cadence-based blocks
- 2 minutes at 90rpm
- 1 minute standing at 70rpm
- 2 minutes at 90rpm
- 1 minute standing at 70rpm
- 4 minutes at 100rpm
Each of these big blocks was significantly harder than the previous one, and I felt like the cadence targets made them significantly more difficult. Some people say “you can ignore the cadence targets” but that’s not always true… cadence affects a workout, and coaches set particular targets for good reason. So I tried to hit those targets, even though it put me further outside my comfort zone.
For the first 10-minute interval, I spun up to a comfortable cadence around 100rpm, then realized the workout was calling for 90rpm. So I dropped it, and finished the interval right on target. I was pedaling slower than I would naturally, but it didn’t feel like I was mashing the pedals.
The second interval, a 9-minute ramp, dropped the cadence even further. Gah! As the power ramped from 90% of FTP to 110%, it told me to drop my cadence from 85rpm to 80rpm to 75rpm. That hurt. Holding power over threshold at 75rpm feels like it really sapped the strength in my legs.
Then I had one more 10-minute section at FTP left. This one surprised me with its difficulty. The first two minutes at 90rpm weren’t terrible, but I could already feel that the previous 9-minute ramp at low cadence had noticeably drained my strength.
Then I stood up for the 1-minute interval as instructed, and tried to hold the 70rpm target… and I couldn’t! It was a weird feeling, like I didn’t have the body weight to stomp on the pedals at a high enough cadence. It would have taken me really engaging my core and arms so I could force my pedal strokes down in order to hit the cadence target – but I just didn’t have the strength.
So I mashed through that interval at 55-60rpm, then sat down and tried to get my cadence up to the 90rpm target. At this point, my heart rate was at its highest point thus far in the workout (175bpm).
Soon enough, it was time to stand for another minute. This block was even worse, with me only able to hold around 50rpm. I was on the edge of the ERG spiral of death, and it was all I could do to keep those pedals turning over.
When I finished slogging through that block, it was time for the final 4 minutes at FTP. And the workout called for 100rpm cadence! Grrr… I would have happily down 100rpm early in the workout, but now my legs were so dead I couldn’t get my legs over 75rpm. So I just gutted out the final 4 minutes, even though everything in me wanted to hit that left button to drop the FTP bias by a few percent. My heart rate was pegged at 180, a few beats over threshold, and there it sat until I finished my last FTP interval.
Takeaways from the Endurance Elevator Workout
This was the first Zwift Camp: Baseline stage I had completed where I didn’t get an email from Zwift immediately after finishing. It makes sense – I hadn’t unlocked any new virtual goodies, and there weren’t any test results to display. But I’m not ashamed to admit that after all that hard work, I wish Zwift had sent me some sort of attaboy.
My first takeaway from this workout was that low cadence work really saps my legs, but I probably need to do more of it if I want to climb well. On Zwift, a combination of lower trainer difficulty and lots of virtual gears lets me spin at a higher cadence no matter how steep the climbs may be. But that’s not how it works outdoors.
The other takeaway is a reminder that my body can go further than I might think. When we get pushed to the edge, whether or not we continue pushing becomes a question of mental strength. I’ll be honest: knowing I would be writing this post and sharing my video helped motivate me not to throw in the towel!
Endurance Test
The test for the endurance portion of Zwift Camp: Baseline isn’t like the Sprint or Attacking tests, which were structured workouts. Instead, Zwift has you ride the Elevation Evaluation route:
Using this route as an endurance test began as a good idea from Zwift, and it could have been a really cool experience for everyone if done right. Unfortunately, the way it actually unfolds in game for the everyday Zwifter leaves a lot to be desired. I’ll unpack this more below, but first I want to state two things clearly that aren’t spelled out by Zwift:
- The whole goal of this final workout is to put in your best 10-minute power effort at some point during the route. I recommend beginning this effort at the bottom of The Grade KOM, because that lets you make use of the timer in game as your 10-minute timer, plus you’ll see an average power readout as well.
- You have to complete the full Elevation Evaluation route for your effort to count as a stage 6 completion. There’s a fair amount of riding to be done even after you climb to the top of The Grade. Just use it to spin your legs out, and make sure you ride through the finish at the Sasquatch Sprint before ending your ride.
Watch me complete the Elevation Evaluation Route/Test:
I started my endurance test with a separate ride, actually. I knew that the Elevation Evaluation route only has a ~3km lead-in when ridden as a free ride, and I wanted a longer warmup. So I jumped in with some robopacers for 30 minutes to break a sweat, spin up the legs, and get the heart rate up.
Hot Tip #1: knowing this is a 10-minute test should help you set your power target quite precisely. There are various ways of doing this. I did two things: I looked at my 2024 power curve in Strava, which showed my best 10-minute power was 344W this year. I also looked at the new way Zwift computes FTP (see chart on this post) and did the math to see I would need to hold 359W (my FTP of 310/0.862) in order for Zwift’s computed FTP to match what I have on my profile.
359W seemed way too high for me to hold for 10 minutes, but 340W seemed doable. So I decided I would target 340W, then increase the power later in the test if I was able.
After my warmup, I saved my activity, then picked the Elevation Evaluation route from stage 6 of the Zwift Camp: Baseline section of my homepage. (I was doing this ride as an on-demand free ride of the route, not an event, because the events won’t be scheduled until next week.)
Recommendation to ZHQ: this page should include text explaining the goal of the ride. Right now it says nothing about what I’m supposed to do. Is this a maximal effort across the entire route? Should I do my best for the full The Grade FTP test? (The fact that it’s a 10-minute test isn’t just well-hidden, it’s not communicated anywhere.)
Hot Tip #2: As I neared the base of the KOM, I reduced my trainer difficulty to 0. This is because I knew there was that flat spot partly up the KOM, and I didn’t want to worry about shifting to keep the resistance (and my power) up during what would be a very suffery portion of the 10-minute effort. Setting trainer difficulty to 0 meant I wouldn’t feel any resistance changes due to gradient at all, so I could control the resistance completely by my shifting.
Hot Tip #3: Even though you can do your maximal 10-minute effort at any time during your Elevation Evaluation ride, plan to begin it right at the start line of The Grade KOM. This is the smart move because it gives you an on-screen timer so you know when you’ve hit 10 minutes, plus it shows your power average on screen, so you’ll know how you’re tracking against your target.
I was feeling good as I started out, and at the 2:30 mark (25% in) I was averaging 355W. But I knew it couldn’t stay that high, so I tried to drop my power closer to 340W so I could sustain the effort.
Just past the 5-minute mark, I hit the flat spot on The Grade. But with trainer difficulty at 0, I didn’t need to shift to keep my power up! #winning My power average was 352W at the halfway mark.
The span from 5-8 minutes was probably the hardest for me, because that was the time when my legs were burning and my mind was asking, “Can I sustain this effort for several more minutes?” At the 7:30 mark (75% done) my power average was 350W, and I was suffering.
Once I hit 2 minutes to go, I knew I could hold close to my 340W target through to the end. (You can do anything for 2 minutes, right?) As I neared 1 minute to go, I tried to up my power and empty the tank. When the clock hit 10 minutes, my on-screen power average was 349W, and as the timer ticked over, my avatar almost came to a stop as I finished my effort with hardly anything left. Whew!
Takeaways from the Endurance Test
My 350W average for 10 minutes was a personal best for 2024, so I was stoked with that result. Here’s my endurance performance report, showing my new PB plus my previous 90-day best:
I’m not sure if I could have paced it any better than I did, or pushed any harder, so I don’t have any personal takeaways from the test. I do, however, have some takeaways for Zwift based on my experience with this final Zwift Camp: Baseline stage.
Takeaways for Zwift
First, as already mentioned above, Zwift needs to communicate what they’re looking for in this final endurance test. I reached out and it sounds like they’ll be at least talking about the 10-minute power goal in the event description text, but that doesn’t even come close to solving the problem. Because we know lots of people don’t read that text, plus many folks will complete the tests as an on-demand workout outside of an event!
Zwift’s original intent was to use Elevation Evaluation as a “route-based workout”, where riders would ride the route together in an event, with popup text instructing them on how to execute the test. But for some reason, that ended up not happening, which means riders are sort of left to figure it out for themselves.
At this point in Zwift Camp: Baseline, I’m not sure there’s an easy fix for the 200,000+ people who have joined and will soon be completing the final workout.
Recommendation to ZHQ: maybe Zwift could send an email to everyone after they complete stage 5, detailing what to do for stage 6?
I didn’t receive a performance report email after my endurance test like I did with the Attack and Sprint tests, which seems odd. In talking to internal contacts within Zwift, it looks like there was some sort of bug where a trigger didn’t fire after I finished the route. Zwift needs to be really sure that this sort of triggering is working in a rock-solid fashion, because it’s really important for people to see the reports they’re expecting after giving it their all.
Recommendation to ZHQ: riders should get their endurance performance report emailed over as soon as they save their Zwift activity.
Perhaps even more oddly, I didn’t get my “Zwift Camp: Baseline Performance Report” until almost 24 hours after I completed this final test. That’s way too long to wait for the big final report that everyone wants at the conclusion of the Camp. Why not send it right away? Zwift has their tech-based reasons, but again, I think they need to look at user experience and try to maximize it.
Recommendation to ZHQ: riders should get their Zwift Camp: Baseline Performance Report emailed over as soon as they save their Zwift activity.
The performance report said my “Rider Strength” is versatility. That is, I’m not a sprinter, attacker, or endurance-focused rider… I’m sort of equally good at all three. Or equally bad? 😁 Regardless, here’s the full Zwift Camp: Baseline Performance Report email I received:
As you can see, the email contains the following:
- Rider Strength: this section will tell you whether your strength is sprinting, attacking, endurance, or if you’re rather balanced like me. Zwift figures this out by comparing your power numbers to the universe of Zwifters.
- Rider Limiter: basically, your lowest percentile ranking against the universe of active Zwifters.
- Looking to improve? Zwift points me to the upcoming Endurance Challenge (workouts to help me boost my endurance) which will be available December 23rd. The email also points me to the “Fondo” training plan.
- Zwift Baseline wheels blurb: the bottom of the email has a blurb about the wheels you unlock by finishing Zwift Camp: Baseline. It calls them “performance wheels,” but this a more hype than they deserve, since they’re nothing special.
Recommendations to ZHQ: this email could be improved in lots of ways, but at the same time, I get it: Zwift Camp: Baseline was sort of a “proof of concept”, a first go at something Zwift will undoubtedly do again, and in a bigger way. A few improvements I’d love to see:
- Under “Looking to Improve?”, I want to be able to click and see the details for the Endurance Challenge or the recommended Training Plan(s).
- More details: keep the email simple, but let me click and see my numbers again plus my percentile rank for each of the three tests (sprint, attack, endurance) somewhere under my Zwift.com profile.
- Don’t pitch the wheel unlock like it’s something special. Either give me some really unique-looking wheels that I’d want to roll in casual riding just because of their appearance, or give me some wheels that perform really well. The Baseline wheels are just… not super cool looking, and not fast.
Concluding Thoughts
As I’ve already said, I love where Zwift is going with Zwift Camp: Baseline. There’s so much potential for this idea of assessing rider abilities, then recommending next steps.
The Zwift Camp: Baseline program felt a little bit thrown together in places, particularly on stage 6. And you know what? I’m OK with that, as long as Zwift takes feedback on board and iterates to improve the product. Because that’s how development works! I’ve done my best to detail my feedback in my series of walkthrough posts, and I know for a fact Zwift has been reading these articles, and everyone’s comments, to make tweaks to the program on the fly and also improve future versions of it. So that’s all good.
Overall, in going through Zwift Camp: Baseline myself, as well as conversing with folks within ZHQ about it, I really think this is just the start of bigger and better things to come in this space from Zwift. So I’m looking forward to what comes next.
Watch this space for details on the Sprinting, Attacking, and Endurance Challenges releasing on December 23rd as a followup to Zwift Camp: Baseline.
Questions or Comments?
That’s a wrap on Zwift Camp: Baseline for me. How’s it going for you? Share your thoughts or questions below!
I’ve really appreciated these write ups! Your tips helped me quite a bit both in stage 6 and the sprint test where I feel I was able to get the most of the experience by being able to work around the minor jank that otherwise would have thrown me off.
Happy to hear it.
What Greg said, thanks! Even more so as I’ve managed to tear a calf and doubt I will get through it now. You are pretty much where I would’ve likely been relative between each discipline so pretty much given me the inside scoop on my own rider type! 🙏
Do you have to complete the route or if you do a 10 min effort are you free to quit?
You have to complete the route, Zwift tells me. I’ll add a note about that above.
Given that, shuld we really do a max 10′ effort at the start o fthe grade? Most riders will still be halfway through the grade… how to complete the grade KOM when you just reached failure after 10 minutes into the climb?
Should be quite doable, at a low effort level.
But if you’d rather do a 10 minute effort near the end of the ride, go for it!
Nice work.
I’m too busy to get at this, only done the Sprint w/o and test so far but am I right in thinking the Baseline is available indefinitely?
I would like to attack the whole program in a structured way when I know I have the time to complete it.
Also, I wonder how many ride types are in the results.
Here’s what Zwift tells me:
I’m not sure what you’re asking when you write “Also, I wonder how many ride types are in the results…”?
Thank you.
Rider types…Sprinter, Climber, All Rounder… do we have any other groups?
I’m not a ‘cyclist’ and don’t follow the sport, other than TdF.
Just trying to learn a little and wondering if someone could fall into a group that I can’t think of.
This is ridiculous. WHY?!
I did the endurance Elevator this morning, and like you, I could do everything instructed except hitting my cadence on that last one. there is no way I could hit 100 rpm for four minutes after all of what came before. I slogged through that at about 70-75 rpm and I felt like dying! Glad someone else had a similar experience!
Best performance measurement is the 4DP test from Wahoo, looking at NM (NeuroMuscular), AC (Aerobic Capacity), MAP (Maximal Aerobic Power) and the more well known FTP. Finishing this test provides you with a clear rider profile: either you’re a sprinter, attacker, rouleur, time trialist, climber or pursuiter. “Jack of all trades” is neither fish nor flesh… I’m hoping not to be labeled with this…
I haven’t done Stage 5 and 6 yet, but I am glad you wrote all this before I went through them this week. I can imagine I would have been rather cross realizing Stage 6 was about what turned out to be your best 10 minutes in the whole route, rather than your climb up the Grade (my PB is at 18 minutes so it would have made a significant difference). However, I am scared of Stage 5 now!
All that to say that this confirms to me that I am much better off using you as a source of info for all things Zwift rather than Zwift itself! Thanks! 🙂
So I just did Stage 5, and I can confirm Eric’s experience, it is a very tough workout! The different cadences is an interesting aspect I had not considered yet in my training, and it showed!
Interesting notes about the email issues.
I received my sprint test email promptly; same with the “glasses” email after the attacking workout. I never received an email after completing the attack test though. As of right now I haven’t done either the workout or the test for Endurance.
Even more interesting though, was that a few days after completing the attack test, I did Stage 2 of the MAAP tour; while I rode it pretty hard, I certainly wasn’t trying to set any records, yet a few hours later I noticed I had received ALL THREE emails (Endurance, Attack and Sprint) using my power data from the MAAP ride! Not surprisingly, the numbers were nowhere close to my actual tests on Sprint and Attack.
On the “Fresh Outta 24” race I did yesterday, I set a 2024 10-minute power PR (as reported in Training Peaks), but alas no celebratory email…
I had something similar happen: I finished the first couple of Zwift Camp: Baseline workouts when the series started but then I rode Elevation Evaluation normally and got an email saying that I had completed the last Zwift Camp: Baseline workout even though that workout was not yet available to ride (and the reported watts were wrong). I also unlocked the final reward even though I hadn’t gotten the second yet.
Same issue here except even worse because I received all 3 emails after a short, very lower power output warmup ride before a Fresh Outta 24 race on Dec 11. Sure hope I don’t receive my final report based on those numbers because they’ll be meaningless.
I received all my test completion emails fairly quickly but the power for the Endurance test was completely wrong, it looks like it may be reporting the best 10 minute power from my warm down (145W instead of 278W). Makes it all a bit of a waste of time.
As Elevation Evaluation is also currently part of “Route Chaser: The Grade” it came up for me as Part 6 completed of the Baseline evaluation.
Sharing routes across things is good as encourages through finishing what you started… but not if they are assessing different things!
After I complete my, now 4, remaining baseline parts will I get a second chance on the Elev Eval or is that recorded now as my effort under the different circumstances?
Yes, you can re ride any of the tests if you feel you could do better with giving it another go.
After the attacking workout, (which did not go well!) I was wary of this one, but actually found it OK, the higher cadence stuff was a lot easier for than the low cadence, anything below 70RPM and I feared the death spiral! I’ve yet to do the final test, but have really enjoyed this series, despite me blowing up at my first attempt at the attacking workout! It has been encouraging to see where my strengths and weaknesses lie, short sprints good, sustained high intensity efforts not so good.
So glad I read this before jumping into the Endurance workout cold turkey 😂
Even after finishing the program I have received none of the email. Quite disappointed.
I did little research concerning the goal of the 6th workout and assumed I had to complete The Grade KOM as fast as possible. I understand I was wrong.
Are you subscribed to Zwift emails? Do you get any from Zwift?
I accidentally completed the Endurance test the other day by doing one of the other baseline workouts on the Elevation Evaluation route while trying to work on the Grade route challenge. I was suddenly 67% complete on the Camp Baseline progress and later notice my email congratulating ne on completing the endurance test. Thanks for clarifying for me what happened.
Crap – I was wondering why that last segment had 10mins split up into five chunks like that. Cadence stuff (which I hate) explains it. Looks like I’m doing the short version, as that last block looks hideous. Might come back to the long version if I’m feeling it later – although I don’t think there’s any chance I could ever get back up to 100 rpm after the rest of it.
*Me reading this while dying on the last 10 min section….I had to look up if it was me or was this workout SO hard??
I appreciate the write-up! I’m doing the Endurance Test early too. I haven’t done The Grade yet, so was unsure how to pace it. Thank you for the tips and everything you do with ZI.
On my dashboard I see all 6 stages completed but I didn’t receive the final report.
Unfortunately, I did the test 4 days before this was published and completely missed the objective of the test. I was aiming for best average power over the complete course with trainer difficulty set to Max. I achieved course average was 276W and 10 min power was 311W (11w below my 90 day best). I would have certainly pushed more on the 10min power if I had understood that was all that was being assessed. As a standalone workout rather than the group ride there is no indication that it is only a 10 minute assessment.
I received the test reports promptly but has taken a week (and 2 emails to support) to receive my rider report. which to be fair, the content of which was a little underwhelming.
I think this highlights the futility of setting ZRS based on one or two metrics and where the metrics are taken without context.
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Just completed the final Endurance Test. Wish I’d read this first!! I was surprised when I set off that there was no onscreen instructions telling me what to do – some hints, tips and encouragement as we’ve had in the previous part of this series of workouts would have been good. I didn’t really know what I was doing. Then came two sprints – but no onscreen instructions as to whether I was supposed to go all out. I didn’t even know when they started – a banner would have been nice.
I received my “Endurance Test: Complete” email – but no final report as yet. Finishing was just a bit of an anticlimax.
Saying all that, I really enjoyed the whole Zwift Camp: Baseline. I’ve never really tried Workouts before and these really helped me focus, and push myself more than I would otherwise.
Ride on!
Does anyone know if you retake the last Elevation Evaluation test (or any of the tests after you’ve completed Baseline) does your rider report get regenerated or is it a one-shot report?
I was given credit for completing the Elevation Evaluation on a different ride where I wasn’t aiming for power and am wondering if it will be used for my rider report before I do the “real” test.
Zwift told me your overall performance report for the whole Zwift Camp: Baseline will only send out once.
But you can redo each of the tests and get an email each time you do them.
Haven’t tested this to confirm. 😆
I just got the overall performance report before I was able to do the “real” Elevation Evaluation, so the report is not very useful as I did not have the opportunity to perform my best 10-minute power effort and Zwift doesn’t have that data.
I think it would have been better if Zwift had just held the overall performance report until the end of the event so that people could go back a try some of the tests again if they felt they did not have their best performance (or because Zwift captured the wrong data at the wrong time).
It’s disappointing to go through all of the tests and not end up with a valid evaluation.
My report from this came back just plain wrong. I did the hard 10mins from the bottom of the grade at about 208-209 average, then backed off and tempoed up the rest of it. The email came back saying my 10 min best was 172 – a number it seems to have plucked from thin air …
It would be nice to see a graph of how your efforts compare to others.
What is the goal for a sprint? minute? ten minute? (good/great/leader)
Show us in watts and w/kg what the levels are.
Just done the final Baseline test and I wish I had read your really useful report before starting it. After completing the other 5 parts of BaseIine camp with good guidance I was totally at a loss when to make the 10 min interval as there was no instruction at all and i had never been up The Grade KOM before. So I took it easy on the first ramp as I wasn’t really psyched up for it, then gave it my all on the second ramp but ran out of climbing. Bah! Demoralising!
Let’s hope Zwift HQ are listening to the feedback on this one.
I’ll have to do it again tomorrow, but starting at the bottom of the Grade as you recommend.
Gah! Yeah, your experience was exactly what I knew would happen after I did stage 6 myself. Tried to help as many folks as possible by writing this post, but of course the majority of people participating aren’t even going to see this. Zwift needs to improve stage 6 dramatically.
Just an fyi I did the final test as a group ride event today and it does not show your average power on the screen while riding. I just got the average power ever 10% on the side and time for each section.
I like the format of the Zwift Camp, I think it is good to have the “go all in” test to a work out plan. I think the challenges were spot on in difficulty mentally and physically, my FTP must be accurate. I would rather have a badge than more kit or a wheel set that I will never ride (I already have the Meilensteins and the DT Swiss Dicut). I would rather earn a badge than kit or wheels because it shows my accomplishments for 2024 to look back on in 2025 and on. But, I agree that it is something to build on.
I did the test today but it gave my result as the average power for the whole ride and not my best 10 mins.
I’d report that to Zwift support!
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I just did the test and the Email from Zwist just had a "previous best" value but the new 10 best value was missing ?
Anyone else get his or maybe they were the same ? Either way its a little confusing..
Same here. It took my new 10min best value as my previous best, and came up with an incorrect 20W low 10min value.
I didn’t get a value it was completely blank.
Fantastic and very helpful insights Eric! Thank you very much! I also was thinking about doing a warm-up ride before this “Test” because The Grade comes so early on the Route. Cheers
First 5 stages were great. The last stage was a joke, no instructions on what to do and no report at the end as promised for the whole 6 weeks of work. What a mess!
If you set TD to 0% are you really “riding the route”?
This workout worked for me. Immediately after, warmed up to the max, I jumped on a Zwift race and scored my first ever win.
Thanks for info and guidance. Definitely helped. I did the test on 23rd. There have been a few tweaks since original post but agreed still not as clear as could be, lots of people asking questions on chat function during session. Improvement in that there is a warm up and also you are encouraged to go for it from bottom of climbing. Climb still divided into 10 equal distance sections and end of climb is now end of test. Then a decent run to complete the route and earn the new route badge. Took me just under an hour to complete the route which included the 10 min climb/test. I hope Zwift gives some decent feedback with some decent suggestions of workouts to help move you forward or else it is a bit of a missed opportunity and would show that Zwift is not quite there yet where structured coached workouts are concerned.
I just finished the last ride yesterday. I improved on all my numbers, which are way lower than yours, and I got the same performance report as you. Versatility. I’m very versatile in the middle of a D pack – haha.
Is there any way to resend the emails? Looks like I haven’t received them due to my notification settings not allowing it…
Thank you for the tip on Endurance Elevation, using the climb timer was really helpful!
I joined an event for stage 6 to get instructions and there were none, what a frustration 🙁 moreover in the event there is no average wattage on the grade, had to watch average watts per segment.
Great write up! I decided to do the test today , power went out and so did i( beautiful day so IRL was great) really pleased I read your description as I thought something was wrong as Zwift had no on screen prompts. Now I realize what I need to do tomorrow so Thanks! One thing, setting trainer to 0 power, I have never done that as I just shift. Wahoo Core , can I do that?
Sure. It’s in your Zwift settings.
I was disappointed in the sixth session, the endurance test. I wasn’t sure when the “test” would be starting. I assumed it was on Oh Hill No. I took it generally easy until that point. Then I gave it my all going up, seeing me average 274w just before crossing the top. But the readout sign in the game read 245, while my heads up display showed 250. I spun the legs out for a bit, then thought maybe I should power until the end. I recall my heads up display showing 222w for the entire ride. Unfortunately, my email from Zwift showed my 10 min best at 163?!?!?! 🤷♂️
Suspect you were better off doing it as a workout rather than a group ride as the latter gave no average power. Also 6km lead-in on group ride, which I completed after doing my usual structured warmup.
I’d done The Grade before so knew how it worked but no prompts was poor, especially after the rest of Baseline was really enjoyable. Thanks for the tip re trainer difficulty – really helped on the middle flat.
Thank you so much for your write up of the elevation test. One thing I would add is that I was expecting there to be a 10 minute timer at the start of the Grade So I didn’t note my start time up the hill, when I began my big effort. However, whilst there is a timer, it only measures your time and power output for each part of the Grade, like on Alpe de Zwift. This led to quite a lot of bad maths and confusion on my part as I tried to work out exactly when the 10 mins should end. Just thought folks should know. Cheers!
Thanks for the post, I wanted to start the stage 6 test now, but couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to do… Now that I understand the test, I can exit tempus fugit (where I’m warming up) and tackle the test! Really sad that Zwift couldn’t get any instructions anywhere for the culmination of the Baseline event…
I did the test today but email receive gave incorrect value, averaged approx 339 Watts for the first 10 minutes climbing the grade, but emailed report only shows 188 Watts.
Were we supposed to complete the entire “Grade” climb at full effort, or only 10 minutes, there was zero instruction from Zwift during the ride.
Contact Zwift support and see if they can issue a corrected email. All you needed was a 10-minute effort…
Has anyone else not received their rider strength report? I finished the final endurance test Saturday afternoon and received the Endurance Test email, but never received the final report email (48 hours later and counting now). Curious if there is a glitch within Zwift or if I am a one off.
You are not a one off. Like you, having completed the other tests, I finished the endurance test on Saturday. And just like you, I have not received the rider strength report. I only got the result emails from each individual test.
I almost spammed the chat during the Endurance test to make sure everyone understood the task. (btw your text editor is broken, I can’t type a point to end my sentence in Firefox. Somehow writing a : instead. Chrome works)
That was three days ago. No Endurance test results, no Baseline results. The two other mails where there within minutes
Is there a way to find your Baseline Report online? I completed all 6 activities, but never received a report.
Nope. I’d reach out to Zwift support.
Thanks Eric, I opened a ticket yesterday.
and today I got my report -woohoo!