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In athletic events, raw speed and explosive power often steal the headline. However, experienced event organizers and coaches know that true fitness isn't just about how fast an athlete starts—it's about how well they manage their effort under fatigue.
To give event organizers a powerful tool for testing pacing strategy, ErgZone has introduced a new scoring metric for event leaderboards: Lowest Max Watts.
The Lowest Max Watts metric ranks competitors based on the lowest peak wattage recorded across designated intervals in a workout.
In traditional interval events, an athlete might go all-out on the first few rounds and suffer a massive drop in performance on the remaining sets. With Lowest Max Watts scoring, the leaderboard penalizes late-stage fading. An athlete's rank is determined by their weakest peak effort, forcing competitors to approach interval events with precise power control and smart output distribution.
Instead of applying a blanket score to an entire competition, hosts set up Lowest Max Watts at the individual workout level. When building or editing an interval-based workout in the event portal, organizers simply select the metric and choose the exact intervals they want to compare.
This gives hosts full creative control over event programming:
ErgZone automatically tracks the maximum wattage an athlete hits during each designated interval of the workout. The lowest value among those peak wattage numbers becomes the athlete's final score for the leaderboard.
Yes. When connected to the ErgZone app, athletes receive real-time feedback during their workout, allowing them to track their peak wattage targets on each interval.
Organizers configure this option directly within individual workout settings, rather than at the event level. When creating an interval-based workout in the ErgZone portal, select Lowest Max Watts as the scoring metric and choose the specific intervals you want to include in the comparison. For step-by-step instructions, view the ErgZone Help Center guide.
No. Event hosts have full flexibility to select which specific intervals are tracked and compared for the final score, allowing for custom pacing setups and warm-up interval exclusions.
This metric is ideal for multi-set interval workouts—such as 5 x 500m rowing intervals or repeated bike erg sprints—where maintaining high peak output across every single set is the core challenge.
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