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 Jamie for going in red today, and to Jam and Roger for helping out good job guys 👍🏻

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. My plan for today was something more like a recovery ride.
Quite soon we had our first sprint. The first time was already very good for the first lap, but the 3’rd time was the fastest.

After the first sprint we got a strech and some riders were further back. During the rest of the first lap, I went a little slower again. A little group were together with Jamie 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 H. Nomden for going in green – very 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 5,2km 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. Some of the group increased their pace. They gave everything towards the finish line to catch up with the single rider. At the end all did a hard sprint for getting onto the podium.
Let’s check out the race results:

Congrats to D. Newton 🥇, H. Nomden 🥈 and R. Vargas 🥉 on the podium.

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

For more ride details check out Zwift Power.