Originally Posted by
wgscott
Some of those are just morons like me with a dumb trainer.
The W/kg is an attempt to normalize for body size differences. If I weigh in at twice your weight, it takes me twice as much power to climb the same hill as you do (in the same amount of time).
But of course body weight, as it's added to a human, doesn't all end up in parts that actually help with cycling. Why wouldn't Zwift just auto-place participants in the appropriate categories (not defined by w/kg) based on their past Zwift performances.. there should be a way will all of the speed, watts, terrain specifics to do this. Eg. how do cyclists get put into Cat1, 2, 3, etc?