This is a brief racer technical guide focused on verficiation and validation. As E-Sport Cycling and Vitual Racing grows so does the need to be transparent with athletic performance and equipment documentation. Here you will find a suggested guide about what resources are free and available.
| Verification |
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| LEGAL NAME. It is advised you should race under your legal name. If you own a national cycling federation license, you should use the name on your license. If you do not own a national federation racing license, ask yourself if you should race as "Racer McRacerson" or your legal name. Using your legal name serves you as a racer in establishing a history of transparency and authenticity. |
| HEIGHT. At the most detailed level, recording yourself saying your name, then proof of time and date, followed by documentation of you measuring height. You could place a piece of tape above your head, then meausure and show measurement in video. Measureing your height annually should satisfy most organizer needs. The point here is that by you are making an effort to verify your height in a transparent manner. |
| WEIGHT. At the most detailed level, recording yourself saying your name, then proof of time and date, proof of scale accuracy, followed by documentation of you measuring weight. For proof of scale calibration, placing a something like a 10kg dumbbell on the scale to show the reading, then you stepping on the scale should be satisfactory. This video demonstrates you are who you say you are, on the given date with proof of scale calibration and accuracy with the known weight on scale. Weigh-ins can be weekly or monthly or dependent on race organizer criteria. Example video of weeigh-n here |
| EQUIPMENT. Video or photo documentation of your manufacturer, make and model of your equipment can help your racing experience. When your competitors or organizers know what your equipment setup consist of, a sense of fair racing results. Document your serial numbers, firmware and conections and calibration status. Transparency upfront helps establish your history and matters as your level of racing increases. At the higher level, this documentation is required as a norm and it is fair to expect this documentation requirement will expand down to lower racing categories as E-Sport cycling and virutal racing evolves. |
| Resources |
| eBioPassport is the suggested starting point. This free service allows a racer to list Name, Verfication status, Equipment details, Power analyis, Power metrics, Video links. All of the eBioPassport categories support your verfication and validation status in total. To date there are no other known resources such as this. |
| intervals.icu is a free fitness and physiologic performance resource can be found accessed at intervals.icu. This service analyzes your activities (with and without power). It provides basic and advanced analytics and planning in an easy to use web interface with support for desktops, phones and tablets. |
| Zwift PowerZwiftPower is where you go for the final results of your Zwift race, because ZwiftPower’s ability to automatically remove out-of-category riders and other cheaters from post-race results meant its final race results were much more legit and fair compared to the results provided in game. If you race on Zwift you should register with Zwift Power. |
| Zwift Racing App This site is created for fans of racing on the Zwift indoor cycling platform and is developed and maintained by Tim Hanson, a dedicated "Zwifter" since beta. ZwiftRacing.app is not a part of or affiliated with Zwift in any way. |
| MyWhoosh Performance Verification Program is presented because it has detailed information about why performance verification is recommended. While the platforms have their own methods and approaches to documenting estimated ftp, critical power, watts per kilogram measures and race data it is the racer that must take on this responsibility. Here is an example video of MyWhoosh Power Performance Passport test. |
| SMART TRAINERS & SMART BIKES. The article illustrates the ever changing and developing nature of equipment standards for racers. There may be minimum equipment standards that change with your racing category. At the top level, smart trainers and smart bikes with tolerances of 1% or less are becoming standard requirements. Additionally, having a secondary power meter recording device is already a standard at the top level, this is known a dual recording setup. A video and/or photos that identify your equipment make, model, serial numbers and firmware versions are increasingly becomine a standard. This information can be stored at Ebiopassport describe above. Proof of calibration maybe required, however top level smart bikes and smart trainers may have self-calibration functions. |
| DUMB TRAINERS. Unfortunately for owners of trainers that are not controllable often referred to as Dumb Trainers, the future is fading for E-Sport cycling and virtual racing. Similarly, many trainers that lack the tolerances that racing ornanizers require have less acceptance and simply not meeting trainer requiements. Click here to see and example of accepted equipment required by the Echelon Racing Leauge to better understand equipment required by a racing organization. |
| Internet Performance & Evaluation. It makes sense that E-Sport Cycling and Virtual Racing internet connection performance is critically important. From the website "Zwiftalizer is a community-run project that is not affiliated with Zwift Inc. in any way. The site relies on your donations. Your support means the world to me. Thank you! — Mike Hanneyt" As a racer you will want to minimize traffic in your network to ensure steady connectivity. Internet dropouts during a race can ruin your experience. Take advantage of a tool like this and understand your connectivity as it relates to equipment performance. |
| Youtube is a free video sharing website that makes it easy to watch online videos. This is a service you can use to store documentation videos. Youtube allows you to post your video in three modes: private, unlisted or public. Unlisted or private modes are recommended with the embedding option "on" which allows you to share with an organizer by simply changing to unlisted then sharing the link. With privacy in mind, sharing your video publicly is not suggested. |