Zwift Chat

[CXRAndy]

Q: Cheapest reliable chest strap HRM?

Garmin or Wahoo

 

[CXRAndy]

Aha! A revised score of 496, still shown as a 'B' but I'm guessing that's 'proper' C territory?

I've come back down to 359 at the moment

 

[Legs]

Garmin or Wahoo

Some people have success with Coospo straps.

 

[CXRAndy]

Some people have success with Coospo straps.

I'm not familiar, but if they are reliable - 👍

 

[Venod]

For me wrist watch HR feature is totally unusable. There is upto 70bpm error. Forearm or upper arm straps seem to work ok. Best obviously chest

I use a chest strap on the bike indoors and outdoors, but when running I use my Garmin watch, I have used both on the turbo for comparison purposes and find the watch can be slightly lower than the chest strap,10bpm at the most but that's at the extreme limit, are you wearing it tight enough in the right position ? A 70bpm difference seems excessive, with that discrepancy I can see why you are not happy.

 

[steverob]

Apparently the Racing Score adjustments have now finished processing,

Mine's up to 346 - the highest it's ever been.

And my score is now 206 - that's one hell of a drop! (I was at 320-something last week)

But at least it means that I can race the remainder of this Cyclopathy season in E.

EDIT - looks like they've also finished updating your score on your previous results, so if you're that way inclined you can go back through old races (since mid-September I think) and see what your score *should* have been back then. Mine seems to track like so: 195, 194, 199, 205, 208, 210, 206. Nowhere near the 310-330 range I was alleged to be in at the time!

 

[mjd1988]

432 for me! Did everyone move down?

 

[CXRAndy]

Yes mine has plummeted too
286

 

[CXRAndy]

What does it mean though, with boundaries and alike. As of today, I'm a solid D cat rider with 350 being the jump into C of old

 

[CXRAndy]

That's interesting, last event Alex's Innsbruck. I was similar in Race Score to the two others apart from Steven. Now looking at the results they are both a category above. Their scores don't look to have moved a great deal compared to Steven and me

Feel slightly chuffed having roughed up the highest ranking in the race. He climbed LS very quickly first lap dropping everyone. 😁

 

[Norry1]

Q: Cheapest reliable chest strap HRM?

My Coospo was cheap and works 100% - just remember to separate the strap from the recording bit each time.

 

[Venod]

432 for me! Did everyone move down?

Mine dropped from 275 to 258, I only seem to be going down, was in the 290s for a while.

 

[Legs]

Haha, mine's gone up to 711, higher than @Peter Salt who wins everything he enters!

Oh no, back down to 603. As you were..

 

[Whorty]

Apparently the Racing Score adjustments have now finished processing,

And my score is now 206 - that's one hell of a drop! (I was at 320-something last week)

But at least it means that I can race the remainder of this Cyclopathy season in E.

EDIT - looks like they've also finished updating your score on your previous results, so if you're that way inclined you can go back through old races (since mid-September I think) and see what your score *should* have been back then. Mine seems to track like so: 195, 194, 199, 205, 208, 210, 206. Nowhere near the 310-330 range I was alleged to be in at the time!

218 now for me, from an initial seed of 398. And there was me being told my 400 score was the k and the model was working fine 🤣🤣

So long as we’re not racing As and Bs any more then it should be better. I’ll still be at the back, but I may have some company at least 😁

 

[13 rider]

Mines down to 339 from 382, if everyone's score has gone does that mean nothing really changes you will still be racing the same people