Tour de Zwift Stage 2 – Climbing Harrogate Circuit
The Tour de Zwift Stage 2 event today fit my schedule starting at 10:00 AM. I selected Group E. The course was one I had not rode before: the 2019 UCI Worlds Harrogate Circuit near London. The event said 2 laps around the 8.6 mile course with 1613 feet of climbing. Not the longest Zwift ride since I resumed in December but definitely the hilliest. Supposedly Group E rode at an average 1.0 – 2.0 W/Kg but with all of the hills and aggressive riders I was out of that range most of the ride. 918 people registered but in the KOM and Sprint standings the most I saw was 524. I rode 17.37 miles in 1:05:31 to average 15.9 mph.
I managed to stay with other people all of the ride, sometimes moving ahead to a group or fall back to another group. On some hills I passed riders and some passed me. Without a fence I am surprised at how I stayed together. Some screenshots from Stage 2.
To illustrate the climbing this is the profile from SportTracks and data from the Stravini plugin for Strava.
This the first ride with percentage of ride time in power zones resembles my road rides based on Golden Cheetah summary data of the ride.
Since this is the first time on this course I collected segment medals in Strava: 5 gold, 6 silver, and 13 bronze. Some of these segments have to be in other courses or they would all be gold.