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ZWIFT Rides No Longer Count Towards Challenges?

JKABLER
over 4 years ago

I was half way to completing the 2021 "January Ride to 200" challenge with ZWIFT rides and now my progress says zero.
My ZWIFT rides have always counted in the past challenges... is this something new??

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Garmin, count me in the people who are unhappy spending tons of money on your devices, to not have my Sufferfest activities count towards challenges. It's -20C outside, and most of us are still in lockdown. I'm using Garmin devices to send the information to Sufferfest, who then sends it to you and Strava. I'm not about to start modifying each FIT file to "participate" in challenges; I just want to have a bit more motivation to keep me going 'cause I'M going nuts inside all the time!!!

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to michelito

    You can report directly from the Garmin device to Garmin Connect and be awarded with badges. You don't need to go outside. The only thing you will miss are all the virtual values from Sufferfest. You will only get the real values from the sensors.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to e7andy

    The thing is that while on a trainer or rollers, all the values except power and cadence are made up (virtual).

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to JayDee_

    Speed is the speed of the wheel just as if you were outdoors with a speed sensor. So speed, power and cadence are real values.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to e7andy
    e7andy said:
    Speed is the speed

    Not really. In real world, you have also the drag and the aerodynamical drag (increasing with the square of velocity), so with the same power output, you'll ride much slower in reality than on an indoor bike, because a significant part of the energy will be wasted on fighting the drag (and the wind) at an outdoor bike (unlike indoors).

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

    Sometimes you have a tailwind Slight smile

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to e7andy
    e7andy said:
    Speed is the speed

    Also - that may be true for a wheel-on trainer, but for a direct drive I'm guessing speed is also virtual.  

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Gary T.

    It is using the revolutions and the circumference of the wheel that should've been there so it will be the same.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to e7andy
    e7andy said:
    It is using the revolutions and the circumference of the wheel that should've been there so it will be the same.

    Of course, the revolution may be the same, but it has nothing to do with the true speed. Outdoors, already at 10 km/h the drag takes almost 50% of your power output just to fight the drag. Now, with a higher speed, and with some opposing wind, you can easily get to an order of magnitude difference between an outdoor and an indoor ride. You will never reach the same speeds outdoors, as you can do indoors, on a static bike (unless it has already some compensation for the aerodynamical drag and wind built in)

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

    Stop fighting over speed. You are literally NOT MOVING forward when on a trainer, so the real speed is zero.