This just in, from our “Unexpected Accomplishments” department…
Like many games, Zwift – the most popular online multiuser cycling “world” for indoor trainer users – has always had user experience “levels” roughly corresponding to how far you’ve ridden. Since I joined up back in 2018, Zwift has recurrently increased the number of XP levels, from 25 to 50, then 60, and two years ago they added levels 61 thru 100.
There’s always been some cachet for being a rider at the maximum XP level, a status I first attained in April 2021, when I reached Level 50 after 2.4 years of Zwifting, which I wrote about here. But 18 months later, Zwift went and added 10 more levels, and then another 40 soon after that! So to regain my place on top of the heap, I spent the last five years “grinding” levels, »more
