Originally Posted by
akdmx
I also just started a zwift routine this week and I'm finding it hard as I'm more suited to the peaky on/off nature of riding on the street particularly in groups. By contrast I'm struggling to keep the power on without the micro-rests you get on the road and so my average power is actually slightly down vs actual road rides. Will I benefit from this or should I try to make my indoor training more reflective of what I do on the road?
To add on to what Fudgy said, this might be very beneficial to you.
Aerobically you're probably pretty weak and this can be a good opportunity to work on that. I was the same way because I only worked on what I was already good at, short, 1-5 min stuff. I could just barely hang on to a break if it had enough people, but would just die a hundred deaths the whole time. Finally I started working a whole lot more on threshold and steady/tempo stuff and it made a tremendous difference on being able to ride fast for a long time.
Just something you have to do to get better at. It'll definitely come if you stick with it, though.