Today I was leading our GGCC team through the virtual streets of Watopia on the “Flat Route Reverse” 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.
Thanks to Roger, Bruch, Johan, Jam and Andrew for helping out today, good job 👍🏻

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 very good for the first lap, but the 2’nd time was below 10sec.

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 my team mates riders could come back. A little group were together with Roger and Jam a bit behind on their own pace.
During the hills we always were together again and could focus on the training ride. Let’s check out the sprint results:

Congrats to E. Rasmus for going in green – strong effort 💪🏻

After the sprints were done and dusted we relaxed a bit in preparation for the upcoming minirace. I brought the fence first down to 5sec and a little later 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 5km hard effort for our racers. From the start quite a group were still together going strong. At the little bump out of the tunnel a group went harder to really give everything towards the finish line.
Let’s check out the race results:

Congrats to B. Wu 🥇, E. Rasmus 🥈 and A. Fonss 🥉 for the podium.

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

For more ride details check out Zwift Power.