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Speaking for myself, I’m right in the middle (39.22 at 343W/69kg)Yeah — I thought the “gap” was interesting… but as the best pros go up AdH in ~40 min, I think it’s due to people weight doping, and if they weight dope a little, well… why not weight dope a lot?“When an event finishes at the same point as a segment, (Alpe du Zwift) Zwift often fails to capture and send the data to ZwiftPower for said segment.” from the Zwiftpower forum. So just sat in two gears all the way up. Which is why so many cry when they get a tacx neo lolSo true. Nice-based American rider Joe Dombrowski also makes the top ten. However, I am under no illusions that I could do that in the real world, given that my trainer can only simulate grades up 6-7%, which means that, as I set the trainer at 100% “difficulty” the climb basically feels exactly the same all the way up, bar a few points where the grade dips through the hairpin. My best time is 54:12 ♀️♀️My best time is 43.11, I’ve just done my 300th Alpe Climb on Sunday .So my 43rd birthday is in a month and it will take about 4.6 w/kg for me to ride my age in minutes, all this says I need to do is ride my current best 20 minute power back-to-back-to-back. Using the power per sector figure on the left for pacing certainly helped.Zwift’s FTP detection is very rudimentary – it’s just based on your best 20-minute average power. The Orica-Scott rider launched her decisive attack with five kilometres to go to the summit of the hors-categorie, accelerating from 12kph to 23kph in the space of seven seconds to quickly ride away from She then held an average speed of 17.9kph for the rest of the climb (admittedly helped by the short descent with two kilometres remaining where she briefly hit 60kph), to cover the final third of the ascent in 15-34.You might expect this time to be beaten by the male riders in the That meant that Van Vleuten was faster than the likes of Damiano Caruso, who was fighting to try and move into the top 10 overall, as well as Tiesj Benoot and Alexey Lutsenko, both of whom finished in the top 30 of the stage.Only Warren Barguil and Romain Bardet went faster on Strava It’s not on the zwiftpower chart because I was freeriding and zwiftpower only counts event results. I’m happy with that.First time up today in Tour for all race. When team Ineos did their race they were doing 5w/kg. . Anybody can get up there if they’re willing to go slow enough.A little depressing when my PB for the Alpe is so slow that it doesn’t even appear on the chart, but oh well.Yup, I’m 70, 68 kg, and it took 1:45:00….pretty much jives with chart~1.6 got me 1:57 on my first try recently (and I was SO THRILLED because I realized I had a shot at sub-2 halfway up if I could basically hold the pace I was riding at at that point for another full hour and not let it drop off. Around 20% faster than Cadel Evans.There’s a decent chance some of them will be current pros (e.g. Doesn’t really inspire me to go from 4.5 to 5.5w/kg.I’m 41 yo, 5’10”, 95kgs, and an FTP of 247w. People doing 6-7w/kg are weight doping.I don’t understand either. Never tested this all the way up. If they are shouting for you, that’s worth a hell of a lot. I don’t think it will be anything close to the sub 60 min efforts folks are posting..I’ve found i go up faster when I ignore the dig deeper rule because you don’t have that many matches to burn. Only about 10 riders in in mind . I have calculated for a 75kg rider riding at 4w/kg (using your data) the difference between the fastest (Lightweights) and slowest (Shimano C60) is equal to 3 Watts (based on data above). Zwift Insider is independent of Zwift corporate ( (55m12s @ 280w / 3.3 w/kg av – totally tallies with that chart)Thanks for the data, this is very interesting. But most of the time it’s set to around 80%. I use a Powertap rear wheel so data good.Great article!