Today I was leading our GGCC team through the virtual streets of Watopia on the “Flat Route” course on the Zwift riding platform. In total it was a four lap training ride with an optional mini-race at the end of the ride. During the ride we had a good chat on our Discord server.
Thanks to Roger, Bruch and Ian for helping out, good job 👍🏻
Thanks to Sarah S. and Katie T. from Storey Racing for coming today and riding with us.

As always we started a little slower to warm up, but soon we went up on our course pace of around 2,8W/kg. Of course, on the downhills a little lower and on the uphills a little harder.
Quite soon we had our first sprint. The first time was already good for the first lap, but it went up through the ride.

After the first sprint we got a split and some riders were behind the peloton. During the rest of the first lap and the beginning of the second lap I went a little slower again to let people come back to the peloton. Thanks to Bruch and Sarah for bringing some people back. A little group were together with Roger a bit behind on their own pase.
But during the hills we were quite together again and could focus on the second sprint. Let’s check out the sprint results:

Congrats to Paul G. for going in green – strong effort 💪🏻

After the sprints were done and dusted we relaxed a bit i preparation for the upcoming minirace. I brought the fence down to 5sec first and by the lap banner down to 2sec for having a fair race start for our racers.
It was quite nice bringing the HR down a bit before I gave the GO GO GO for starting the minirace. It was a 6km hard effort for our racers. From the start quite a group were still together going fast. By the 2km way point in the hills a good group went harder to really give everything towards the finish line.
Let’s check out the race results:

Congrats to B. Smith 🥇, K. Andy 🥈 and D. Moretti 🥉 for the podium.

Thanks to all riders for coming and riding with us today.

For more ride details check out Zwift Power.