I led our GGCC team today through the virtual streets of Watopia. We rode 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 Jam for going in red today, good job 👍🏻

As always, we started a little slower to warm up. 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 the fastest.

After the first sprint we got a split and some riders were behind the peloton. During the rest of the first lap, I went a little slower again. Thanks to my team mates riders could come back. A little group were together with 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 girl and daddy for going in green – strong effort 💪🏻

After the sprints were done and dusted we relaxed a bit in preparation for the upcoming minirace. I first adjusted the fence down to 5 seconds. Later, I reduced it to 2 seconds to ensure a fair race start for our racers.
It was quite nice to bring the HR down a bit. Then I gave the GO GO GO to start the minirace. It was a 5km hard effort for our racers. From the start quite a group were still together going strong. One rider tried getting away from us. At the little bump out of the tunnel, a group increased their pace. They gave everything towards the finish line to catch up with the single rider. At the end we all got together for a hard group sprint.
Let’s check out the race results:

Congrats to Zable 🥇, Martin B. 🥈 and H. Thank You 🥉 for the podium.

Thanks to all riders for coming and having fun with us today.

For more ride details check out Zwift Power.