Lots Of Dust On The Jungle Circuit Until Losing Contact
A change of pace for today’s Zwift event. I chose the ZHCC Sub 2 Gravel Rash on the Jungle Circuit. The ride started at 12:30 PM and lasted 60 minutes. This was the 3rd time riding the Jungle Circuit. Unlike yesterday’s Zwift ride the electricity stayed on for the whole ride. I ended up biking 14.59 miles putting me at 127.22 Zwift miles for December with a goal of 258 miles. Information about today’s ride.
Outside the weather continued to stay in the 40’s triggering my 60 degree threshold alert to not go outside. Maybe it will warm up by Saturday for an outdoor ride if the rain doesn’t arrive too.
I wore a new jersey for today’s ride. I received it from Ride Spot, a People For Bikes program. It’s a different design more suited for what some people call a “party pace” with two side pockets with zippers and buttons to close the neck opening.
As the ride started I stayed with the group and sometimes at the very front. A number of riders went through the fence but I held back only getting warned a couple of times to return. But around the 22 minute point when the group rode across the suspension bridge I wasn’t able to stay with the group going up the climb off the bridge. I tried to rejoin but the gap was too big and I rode solo to the finish except for a couple riders passing me.
Since it was the Jungle Circuit we rode mountain bikes. I think this affected my power output some but I still put out good numbers for me. Average power was 121 watts and max 256 watts. Yesterday I averaged 125 watts and maxed at 313 watts. Today 47% of the ride was in Zones 1 and 2 leaving 53% for zones 3 to 7. Yesterday 65% of the ride time was in zones 3 to 7.
The lower power output didn’t stop me from racking up a bunch of new personal records, 2nd place records and 3rd place records in Strava.
