Racing and dividing humans over PENs
When racing, the algorithm divides racers over multiple PENs (if there are multiple PENs). Although I understand that this is based on my FTP and weight in order to be competitive, but sometimes i just want to be in the same race as my friends. Yesterday I found myself in PEN3 of 4, with all bots. I was the only human in the race (my PEN) and not in the same race as my friend. This was everything I did not want, I then also decides after 20min to quite. Please adjust this heuristic or way of dividing humans over PENs, so more humans can race together. Racing is for some also a social event and being competitive is not always the highest goal.
Tom de Kort
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Many thanks for your suggestion and support for TrainingPeaks Virtual.
I'm delighted to say that this is already fully supported. An organiser can choose between multiple different ways of allocating pens - including having wide ability bands to maximise the number of humans of a similar(ish) ability, or no pens at all and just have everyone together to guarantee everyone can ride together regardless of their ability.