At the turn of the year, the American industry giant Zwift published a wealth of data on users who travelled on the virtual routes of Watopia, Richmond and London in 2017. Zwift users from all over the world travelled almost 200 million kilometres. The power output for the entire year totalled just over 11 million kilowatt hours - enough energy to watch 77 million hours of television. The calories consumed are equivalent to 14,368,536 slices of pizza.
German Zwift users in detail
The German Zwift user is 40 years old, has an FTP of 201 watts and rides 34.5 kilometres per training session - six and a half kilometres longer than the global average and than the German average performance in the previous year. The annual distance covered by all German Zwift users combined: a good 10 million kilometres - and therefore around five percent of the distance covered worldwide. Compared to the previous year, German Smarttrainer racing cyclists have more than tripled their kilometres!
122,140,586 miles (196,582,313 kilometres) were completed on Zwift in 2017. That's 135 per cent more than in 2016, and the altitude metres covered worldwide also increased many times over: from 631 million altitude metres (2016) to almost six billion (2017). Users from Ontario (California), Vienna and Hamburg rode the longest. Zwifters from Copenhagen have the highest average power output.
