I led our GGCC team today through the virtual streets of London. We rode on the “London Flat” course on the Zwift riding platform. In total it was a three lap training ride with an optional mini-race at the end of the ride.
Thanks to Jam, Johan and Roger for helping out today – 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 somewhat harder. My plan for today was something more like a recovery ride with some interval parts during the “climb”. A little group were together a bit behind on their own pace.
During the way back to London we could always come together again to focus on the training ride.

After the “climbs” 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. The profile of the course do not make it easy having a good group together. But our riders today managed this nicely. 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. Some tried getting away from us at the bumps, but it was hard getting away from us. Some of the group increased their pace. They gave everything towards the finish line to stay strongly together. At the end all did a hard sprint for getting onto the podium.
Let’s check out the race results:

Congrats to J. Kankaanranta 🥇, Martin B. 🥈 and W. Huysecom 🥉 on the podium.

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

For more ride details check out Zwift Power.