Zwift Winter-Spring League: Rnd 1 Results

Round 1: Return to Bologna

A windy January night in the midst of lockdown – the conditions couldn’t be better for Zwift racing and a trip off to the virtual streets of Bologna for almost 300 riders.

Triathlon Ireland’s Zwift league had visited Bologna a number of times before, but never had the course been set up to be so challenging with two ascents of the Via di San Luca, plus all that long straight flat in between, the false flats, the slight drags, the descents (should you pedal or not?) and the 180 degree turns.

Then there was the question of which bike to use, whether to go hard right throughout the race or hold something back for the hills. And with drafting turned off there was the decision of whether to stick with riders you wanted to beat or to ride your own race.

So many questions – answered by what’s known as the Race of Truth – an individual time trial over 24.6km.

Results

You can see all the race results and dig in to the in-depth data on the race’s ZwiftPower page.

In contrast to Triathlon Ireland’s autumn league, the 2021 Winter-Spring League does not have its own page on Zwift Power. Instead we are compiling the individual and club rankings ourselves – this is being done to ensure we can allocate points equally to men and women.

The same scoring criteria apply from our previous league: (with women and men assigned points separately).

1st : 61 points
2nd : 56 points
3rd : 51 points
4th-50th : 49-3 points
Every finisher from 51st onwards will receive 1 point. 

The team competition pulls points each week from a club’s best five riders – unlike the Autumn League however once each week’s club score is finalised it can’t change of a rider subsequently changes teams.

View the Triathlon Ireland only standings after Round 1.

Why Am I Not There?

If you don’t see your name on either the ZwiftPower race results sheet or the Triathlon Ireland league standings here are some leads to follow up:

FILTERED RIDERS

ZwiftPower will ‘filter’ (aka exclude) any results from riders for a number of reasons, the most common being the absence of a heart rate monitor, a verified power meter or those who entered a power category below their ability/exceeded the W/kg for the power category they entered.

These are automated decisions based on power and made by ZwiftPower not Triathlon Ireland.

While Zwift racing is primarily about having fun, we have a responsibility to ensure that any race that carried our name is also fair so unfortunately if you were excluded or ‘filtered’ it is for a legitimate reason. Filtering is an automatic, data based decision by ZwiftPower designed to ensure an above board race.

We know it can be heart braking when your HR monitor or Power Meter data fail you in a race but view it like having a mechanical that causes you to pull out of a real life race – it’s unfortunate but not grounds to have your result re-instated.

League Tables

If you are missing from the Triathlon Ireland League Table it is likely for one of two reasons
– You are not assigned to a Triathlon Ireland club on ZwiftPower
– You are not assigned to Triathlon Ireland on ZwiftPower

Only riders assigned to a Triathlon Ireland club or to Triathlon Ireland (as a club) will be included in the results sheets. If however you are a Triathlon Ireland 2021 member and have been left off for these reasons, drop us an email – we are happy to re-instate you.

Only riders assigned to a Triathlon Ireland club will be added to the Club Rankings tables.