stephencousins wrote:
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Zwift is there as a training tool and a social platform primarily. Races as such are more for fun because as yet it’s not possible to verify that everyone is actually ’running’ and if they are , that their equipment is correctly calibrated. So although running races exist and are great fun to do, they can’t be fully relied upon to be an accurate representation of what would happen outside.
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It’s the same with the bike race. You never know of the others are weight cheating (thus increasing their W/Kg). In real life, you don’t know if someone is using HGH, EPO... so it’s the same.
What you do get (in the bike races and in the running races I am sure) is to race against others, but really against yourself. Others in the race really push you to your limit. I have made great improvements since going on the platform. It’s not like real cycling of course (as I found out in the spring), but there is a very good correlation.