Originally Posted by
burnthesheep
Whatever. I think I know my answer now is to not pay attention to almost anything on Zwift and not nearly as much "indoors" stuff that comes across my Strava also. Just pay attention to my own progress and consistency.
Eh, racing is racing. Doing it with a team is fun. I know I'm not going to win, so I try to win my group or bridge to the next one, or not lose the sprint or whatever. I've sort of convinced myself not to care that not all the other people are racing fairly (hell, my powertap might not be fully accurate). Racing against some avatar on a screen that I can convince myself is a real person putting out a real effort is a helluva lot more fun than staring at a graph to see if I'm hitting my goals (though the latter is much better if I actually want to get better at this thing).