Individual Power Development Series

The Individual Power Development Series is a points-based competition that levels the playing field between athletes of all abilities.  The goal is to try to beat your own personal best power numbers.  Doing so could lead you to victory!
 

Over the next five weeks you will be tasked with beating your best 5, 12, and 20-minute power on a designated course in Zwift.  Each course will be matched in distance to the power requirement.  Meaning you will not have to ride a course that takes 30 minutes to complete when you only need a 5-minute power effort. 
 

How does the organizer know how you did against your personal bests?  You will be required to share your baseline numbers with the organizer.  More on that to come.
 

The course will be released closer to the start date as the Zwift Guest World schedule is released for November.
 

The basics you need to know:

Week 1 ~ Nov 6-12 ~ Baseline power numbers from to https://www.zwift.com/ca/feed shared to matthew.s.ferrier@gmail.com 
Week 2 ~ Nov 13-19 ~ 5 minute power effort - Makuri Islands – Mech Isle Loop
Week 3 ~ Nov 20-26 ~ 12 minute power effort - Richmond – Cobbled Climbs
Week 4 ~ Nov 27-Dec 3 ~ 20 minute Power effort - Watopia – Tick Tock
Week 5 ~ Dec 4-Dec 11 ~ Hill Climb –  Innsbruck – 2018 UCI Worlds Course Short Lap
Try to beat your 20 min power – No ties for points
- Extra 5 points each time you set a new FTP
- 1 extra point each week you wear your Heart Rate Monitor
- Use a TT bike only

SCORING: 
Your weekly effort will only be compared to your own personal bests, and points will only be awarded on that basis. From Weeks 2-4, matching or exceeding your personal best will earn you 100 points. If five people manage this, they would all receive 100 points, and the sixth individual that had an effort that was 95% of their best effort would receive 95 points.

Week 5 involves a Hill Climb where we expect many people to match or exceed their personal bests and as a result there will be no ties. The individual that manages to come closest to or beats their 20-minute personal best by the most, will be awarded the max points.

To help avoid a tie, there are two ways to earn extra points. If you achieve an FTP increase throughout the series, you will earn five additional points. Additionally, wearing a heart rate monitor will earn you one additional point per week

Standings for the points competition will be published weekly.

Scoring Example

Below is a screen shot of how the scoring sheet will look for each week.  Every participants baseline data will be kept private.  You can see how a calculation is done against your baseline data to provide a percentage of the baseline numbers.  Then your points are awarded based on that calculation.




 

RULES:
1.    By the end of week 1, submit your name and go to https://www.zwift.com/ca/feed and log into your Zwift account.  Scroll down and see your Peak Power for each interval, as pictured below.  









Screen shot or copy and paste this chart into an email it to matthew.s.ferrier@gmail.com.  These are your baseline metrics for the series.

2.    Complete each week’s route on a TT bike, to disable drafting from other riders.  It does not matter which TT frame or wheelset you choose to use in Zwift.  
3.    If you miss a week you receive Zero points for that week. There are no opportunities to make up a week.
4.    The effort you would like to use for your score should be named “HPL Power Development Series”, so that the event Director can find your effort.
5.    Allow the ‘HPL Cycling Events’ Strava profile to follow you on Strava so that we can see your results.
6.    You can ride the course and day of the week, or as many times per week as you like.  It will be up to you to appropriately name your best effort for the week so that the organizer can find it. See point #5
 

BONUS COMPETITION:

There will be a General Classification that keeps track of an overall GC time for the participants.  This way you can track how your weekly course finish times stack up against others.  However, no points or prizes will be awarded for the GC times.  Just a little incentive to finish each course as quickly as possible to keep your GC times as low as possible.  
 

Other Notes
Remember, the focus of this series is to push yourself to beat your own power numbers.  It is not to reward individuals who can manipulate their numbers the best.  To that end, an effort exceeding your personal best in Weeks 2-4 will achieve the same score as someone who matches their personal best. 
 

Week 5’s focus will change, and winners will be based on who can beat their best 20-minute effort by the most!

Points are only based on power, so do not worry that someone else is riding a better TT bike, or if you forget to switch to a TT frame.  As mentioned above, those not on a TT frame will only be removed from the GC rankings, but will still receive points based on their individual power results.  The GC rankings are simply additional information to share because it’s easy enough to gather.
 

If the week’s course isn’t part of the current guest world schedule, you can create a Meetup and invite someone you follow on Zwift. You do not have to ride with this person, you just need at least one other person invited to be able to create the Meetup.  In the Zwift Companion app, navigate to the “Events” tab on the bottom, and then click on the orange “Create Meetup” button. From there you can set the time of your meetup, which course you want to ride, and who you want to invite. Feel free to follow Matt on Zwift (Matt Ferrier [HPL Cycling]) and invite him if you want. He promises he won’t join your meetup.