There are two lines: a pink line indicating the best power outputs of the Zwift Academy Participants and a purple line hovering below showing where I land.
I’m pretty okay at bikes. Decent, you could say. But I’m not exceptional.
Every year, I sign up for Zwift Academy with naive hopes that I’ll be chosen as the next Canyon / SRAM professional racer.
Every year I’m not.
I see the semi-finalists and wonder what they had that I didn’t. What was the team looking for that year? I’m not a sprinter. I’m not a climber. Sometimes I can’t clip in immediately at the start of the race. Sometimes I earn a step on the podium.
I can hold my own but it isn’t noteworthy.
This year, just like previous years, I put my all into the workouts and races. And by “all,” I mean, I came off road racing season and jumped into The Zwift Academy. I may or may not have been on form and then I went on vacation. Then I got sick.
I spaced out the workouts and races so I recovered enough. I think I got my highest four-minute power but TrainingPeaks doesn’t track four minutes so maybe I didn’t.
I started the Academy with a melancholic attitude. It didn’t really matter how hard I worked. I knew I wasn’t stronger than the majority of the folks…
