{"id":781,"date":"2019-11-10T15:23:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T15:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/?p=781"},"modified":"2019-12-07T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T18:00:23","slug":"the-third-6points-mallorca-zwift-training-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"The third 6Points Mallorca Zwift training ride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A surprisingly good ride today; having not ridden Richmond for quite a while, I was a little nervous beforehand that I might have forgotten the landmarks; but all was well! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was also concerned that we had moved the start time back to its proper time of 11.40am UTC after the first two events; and also that Richmond is not liked by some Zwifters for some reason, and that this might have affected rider numbers. Again I need not have worried!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zwift Companion end-of-Ride listing, 153 entrants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Actually, Richmond’s full UCI circuit suits the sprint and minirace structure we use – 2 marked sprints per lap (we only used one of them, twice, but could have used both) and then the closing minirace over the three hills that Zwift’s criterium racers like as a finish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The group was good – particularly just before the minirace, they all withdrew from the fence so that I could bring it in to 2 seconds, to give a tight, fair start. No one was within 3 seconds of the fence at that point, great!! That means the finishing order is a true reflection of riders\u2019 performance in the minirace. I did lose 9 riders to the fence in the first half of the event, but they had ignored repeated toggling of the fence off and on three times, to give them three times as much time to get back behind the fence, but they didn\u2019t seem to want to play the team ball! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fence at 2 secs, just before the start of the minirace, a fair start for 128 riders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All ride data at https:\/\/zwiftpower.com\/events.php?zid=246258<\/a> for those registered with ZP. Zwift Companion shows that we had 153 booked to ride, 128 starters and 79 finishers, great numbers for only our third 6Points Mallorca event. I averaged 2.5w\/kg, 190w, right on the money. And there I was, mid-pack!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many nationalities, and some regulars – David Smith, Gerry Venditti…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And Zwift Companion shows the results for all 79 finishers…<\/p>\n\n\n

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A good ride today on 2 laps of Zwift’s Richmond UCI course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The third 6Points Mallorca Zwift training ride","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[35,4,69,53],"tags":[15,3,20,51],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paDNTg-cB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}