Comments on: How Zwift Calculates XP for Cycling Workouts

By: Marge

Marge — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:35:37 +0000

Not sure if this is universal or if it’s been pointed out elsewhere, but in the custom workout screen on Mac, I’ve found that all of the zone block/interval durations are automatically rounded down to 5 seconds. I guess they’d had enough of these sneaky 56/62 second interval XP farming workouts…?

By: Eric Schlange

Eric Schlange — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 20:11:45 +0000

In reply to Gabriela Guerra. Brilliant. Appreciate your testing. For science!

By: Gabriela Guerra

Gabriela Guerra — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 06:15:37 +0000

In reply to Eric Schlange. I tried after one minute in- a small block- to not risk much, and yes, zero XP, so I think same for bigger blocks.

By: Eric Schlange

Eric Schlange — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 01:14:20 +0000

In reply to Gabriela Guerra. Hmmm… haven’t tested that exactly, but I’d say I’m 95% sure you’ll get zero XP if you skip a block, no matter how far into it you are.

By: Gabriela Guerra

Gabriela Guerra — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 22:05:26 +0000

What happens if you are in the middle of a longer block and then have to skip it for some reason; will xp points be awarded for the ridden minutes or will everything be lost?

By: Luka

Luka — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:13:56 +0000

Hi Guys ,
I have been monitoring this short changing of xp just recently , mainly due to the 2x XP on TOW 2023 .
Noticied immediately on TOW free ride with a workout no 2x XP , they might have corrected this situation from what I can gather.
Cause I like to do workouts on climbs I get some elevation added to my ride data , portal has played a part .
Recently I rode 45km session , Col d’aspin Watopia , complete climb with an extra 2 arches at the top after a u turn on descent to finish workout .
Total xp 845 , 2 workouts completed during session , 40/40 stars completed.
Just on distance 45km/900xp , 20xp / 1km , was on a tt bike , no xp for the 10 arches and an extra 2 for the u turn , what about my workout xp .
If I wasn’t on a tt bike why can’t I participate in the Arch bonus spin on portal like every other rider .
This is so unfair and disadvantages the solo workout rider , if you ask me , a user performing a workout should be applied a bonus xp , as a reward .
Users riding groups or bots accumulate xp faster due to speed , shy should a user solo/workout on a climb be disadvantaged.
Thanks Luka

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 15:40:48 +0000

Hi, the Free Ride section says 5XP per minute, however I got 6XP in my case. Created a workout with 10-minute free-ride blocks (2 hours total). As I completed each 10-min block, I received 60XP (or sometimes 59XP, it seemed to alternate, so on average it was just a hair less than 6XP per minute). Cheers

By: ben goodfellow

ben goodfellow — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 09:49:59 +0000

In reply to Kyle. Odd, 11xp (62s) x 4 would be 44xp (248s) per star. Wonder why you are getting 49xp?

By: Limor R

Limor R — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 08:44:55 +0000

Had to lower the bias midway through the block because it wad too hard, really put it the work to finish it but still got no star and no XPs :(( Super disappointing and j motivating at all.

By: Bill J

Bill J — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:42:47 +0000

Totally agree with this article, workouts should get better points than they currently do, its terrible being essentially penalized because you are doing structured workouts regularly.