This was an unusual bike ride choice today. The weather outside was good for biking but I decided to go Zwifting instead. I checked the upcoming events and chose the ZZRC Sub 2.0 Ride starting at 12:40 PM. The course was the recently released Beach Island Loop but rather just one loop the ride went 60 minutes. For a change my Bluetooth dongle and the sensors talked to each other without disconnecting at the start. This time I used the dongle in place of the built-in Bluetooth in my desktop computer.

Later today a front will arrive making the next several days Zwifting days.

I got on my Blue Norcross AL bike a couple of minutes before the ride began to warm up and test the sensors. At the start I went out with the group and stayed with them until about 7 minutes into the ride when they rode away from me. I was close to the yellow beacon and then I wasn’t. The “Sub 2.0” is supposed to mean staying below 2.0 w/kg which I did but I could see those ahead of me producing more than 2.0 w/kg. I upped my power to 3.0 w/kg but I didn’t close the gap probably because I was out of the draft. With that I settled into my pace for the rest of the ride. I didn’t see the fence in front of the leader which I think ups the pace. 301 people registered for the ride with over 11,000 riders on the course.

While I lost contact with the group I collected numerous segment medals according to Strava: 14 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze. The Beach Island Loop is relatively flat with 361 feet of climbing in the 17.2 miles I rode. My average climbing speed was 13.1 mph and I stayed in the same gearing I used on the flats and downhills.