Just uploaded my latest lockdown Zwift Racing video from last night’s virtual cycling race .. it’s a slightly different format from my last, and a bit more of a home made cine film than normal 😉
I’m thinking lockdown is finally taking its toll on me!
On the bike I'm in my yellow & black AVP race kit, while my avatar on the screen is wearing the Rapha grey pink & white race kit 😉
Thursday's Round 6 Hare & Hounds race, was brutal.
This was a Zwift group handicap race covering 4 laps of Central Park, NY, in which riders set off at timed intervals, the quickest going last; the aim being for a group to catch the one in front and/or stay away from the group behind them in hot pursuit. The key to success was supposedly to work together, as no lone rider should be capable by themselves of catching the group ahead. That is at least what the race book says.
There were however groups all over the road, it was carnage, but the end the result between the 3 AVP entrants was no surprise. Although starting some 5 minutes behind us, Richard G cruised past Keith H and I at the halfway point! I got off to an outstanding start, leading group C from the outset, but I was soon reeled in and it was then just a race to keep ahead of Keith. In the event before last, I suffered the indignation of seeing Keith gaining a second a mile on me and there was nothing I could do to stop him passing me 5 miles from the finish. This time, knowing he was carrying an injury, I was not going to let him pass. I even accelerated away from drafting in a group who were going just that bit slower than Keith. Sorry Keith, I know as the race book said, we probably should have worked together, but our race was done by then 🙄
I cut this short 3.5 minute video of this race if you'd like to see what it's all about. https://youtu.be/AQ_leWUPCyo
