The starting pen for the 6Points Mallorca Sunday Zwift ride
Another record ride today, with 195 bookings, 159 starters (of whom 98 on ZwiftPower) and 93 finishers. Watopia’s Sand & Sequoias is certainly a lovely route, probably my favourite at the moment, starting and finishing in the Fuego Flats desert:
Heading for Zwift’s Las Vegas equivalent, Saddle Springs, past the dinosaur…
and taking the forest route back to the start through Titan’s Grove, which takes riders up and down the KOM.
Alerting riders that we start racing here second time aroundThe full map of the route shows the varied terrain
David was my backup beacon, and all went very well; my averages were 2.5w/kg and 183w, spot on as advertised.
The closing minirace on the second lap of this course is, if anything, tougher than London 8 up and down Box Hill – it’s longer (10kms), and as well as the KOM itself, it’s quite undulating both before and after the KOM.
After a career with several organisations, broadly in IT, I now have more time to follow physics (mainly cosmology) and mathematics again, as well as reviving my cycling, and having more time for skiing. As I get older, I'm more relaxed about some things, and less patient with quite a few others! It seems quite random, but my interests and prejudices will show as I post more blogs, I suppose. I have used Twitter and Facebook for a while, but I have found 140 (or even 280) characters on Twitter too few to make points in a nuanced way (opinions on Twitter are VERY black and white, and sometimes downright offensive); and FaceBook, while I use it a quite a lot, isn't really a medium for debate. So here goes with a blog, at last!
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