Today I was leading our GGCC team through the virtual streets of the Champs-Élysées on the Zwift riding platform. In total it was a five lap training ride with an optional full lap mini-race at the end.
Thanks Roger for helping out until your tech issue 👍🏻

We started during the lead-in with an easy pace around 2,6 W/kg. From the lap banner on I tried staying with a steady 2,8 W/kg (around 200W avg.). By going at a more lower and steady pace this ride was more a recovery ride.
Before the sprints we had quite a long group giving our sprinters quite a draft.

The first sprint was more like a test of legs, but after that our sprinters really tried everything to get faster times each lap.
Let’s check what numbers we got:

Congrats to S. Kruse for going in green – good job 🏆

After the sprinting was done we prepared for the minirace, bringing the group back together. By bringing the fence slowly down to 5sec and a little later to 2sec we had a fair start ready for our racers.
From the lap banner I gave the GO GO GO and the race was on. Quite early some riders went away from the peloton, which was going by a little higher pace for the last lap at around 3,4 W/kg.

The more kilometres we put into the last lap the more the racers went away from us. The last kilometres they push as hard as they could to get first over the line.
Let’s check the final results:

Congrats to B. Wu 🥇, J. Ferson 🥈 and R. Simpson 🥉 on the podium.

Thanks to all for coming and riding with GGCC today.

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