Today I was leading our GGCC team through the virtual streets of London on the Zwift riding platform. It was a three-lap training ride on my favorite UK course: “Greater London Flat”.
Thanks to JC for going in red today, as well as Jam and Ian for helping out — good job mates 👍🏻

For the lead-in we started at 2,6W/kg. After that, I settled into a 200 W avg. effort at 71 kg, and for the last lap I lifted it to 205 W avg. Right before the first sprint (which is the end of the lead-in) I pushed the power a little more. Some of the sprinters already tried their legs early — and our best time came on the 2’nd lap. But also the 3’rd and last sprint we got some really good numbers.
Let’s check out who got the green jersey:

Congrats to X. Gys for going in green – strong job 🏆

After the sprints, we focused on our upcoming optional minirace. I ramped up the pace to get some blood into the legs before going hard.
As always, we started the optional minirace from our beloved shopping building, Harrods. For a short time we had a nice group together. But very soon more and more tried pushing everything going away from the main racing group. Close to the finish line some riders tried everything catching up to the folks in front. In the end all did a hard sprint.
Let’s check out the results:

Congrats to T. Skaaning 🥇, J. Taylor 🥈 and X. Gys 🥉 on the podium.

For more details check out the results on Zwift Power.

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