Originally Posted by
spelger
while riding zwift (and i know it is imaginary and rife with cheaters) i occasionally see someone blow past me with a much lower W/Kg that myself, it is puzzling at times.
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).