Today, I guided our GGCC team through the virtual streets of the “Lutece Express.” We rode in Paris 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 to Jam and Jamie for helping out – good job guys 👍🏻

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 195-205W avg. By going at a steady pace the sprinters focused on doing their job. And we had some good sprints 💪🏻
By accident we did 206W avg for the first half, 196W avg. after that and around 200W avg. before the race start.

The first sprints were a good test of the sprinters legs. Our sprinters really tried everything until the end. They aimed to get fast times and the green jersey. I always tried dragging the group at a little higher pace. Today we had a close one between some sprinters 💪🏻
Let’s check what numbers we got:

Congrats to D. Nguyen for going in green 🏆

Now the sprints were done and dusted. We took a more relaxing lap before we came to our optional minirace. I went at a little lower pace for bringing the group together. But the pace was still good enough for having a good race start. Towards the race start I went mora and more up in pace. At the same time I took the fence down to 2sec. The pace of course changed dramatically for the last lap 👹

We had a good group going at full speed from the start line. For most of the lap we stayed together for the best drafting effect. At the “climb” up to the arch Jamie went away, we went also harder.
In the end a hard sprint did sort the podium, let’s see:

Congrats to. J. Taylor 🥇, E. Nikkels 🥈 and Martin B. 🥉 on the podium.

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

For more details, check out Zwift Power.

And of course, we also had the orange jersey 😉