Originally Posted by
Sy Reene
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?
All Zwift knows is your power output. Everything that happens within the program is based on that and whatever information you provide about yourself. The only way to try and make it a realistic simulation of how you normally ride is to use information such as w/kg. Using something like speed or whatever you mean by terrain specifics doesn't work unless you try to use something like w/kg to normalize performance.