I went to the Zwift desktop program and saw the ZHR Masters on Innsbruckring in Innsbruck event starting at 11:30 AM. I had enough time to get ready for four laps around Innsbruck. I chose the E group because that was my age group. Not a large group with only 7 riders. It didn’t take long after the start for the other riders and groups to disappear in the distance. I wasn’t planning on racing just riding the course. The biggest climb was at 8% and I made it up that 4 times as you can see in the profile below. This was my first ride on the innsbruckring course. I’ve rode other routes around Innsbruck though.

ZwiftInsider.com describes the course, “Innsbruckring is the flat(ish), “in town” portion of the Innsbruck course. Beginning and ending at the start/finish banner, this route makes a great crit race course thanks to the “Leg Snapper”, a 450m long, 7% climb located around 5km from the start. This hill forces an attack every lap. Save your feather powerups!”

Outside it was below 60 degrees which is why I was riding in Zwift. That is below my cold threshold and its supposed to get colder tonight so Wednesday might be another Zwift ride day. Last week when my Wahoo Kickr Core arrived I thought it would be several weeks before I rode it but the weather changed. The Kickr resistance made getting up the climbs hard as it should and I changed to bigger rear gears and slowed down to 5 or 6 mph to the top. At the finish I was sweating.

I collected three Strava medals: PR on Legsnapper (2:19), 2nd fastest time on Legsnapper (2:28), 3rd fastest time on Legsnapper (2:31).