Originally Posted by
Skulking
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.
Right. So Zwift has your power output. But they also have, if you have any past history on the platform, how you performed using the power you had. I guess I'm wondering why Zwift just doesn't assign each person a category based on that?