Had my first Zwift race in ages.
Was one of those all mixed up races with all grades off at once. Twice over box hill. First lap was super hard from the gun, couple of bits of lag saw me on the back but not too bad.
Paced up Box a bit harder than I wanted but hard to judge. Had a nice rest in a group of 3, they tried to drop me coming out of the underground but didn’t have the engine to pull steady watts after and I TTd back to them.
We got caught by 3 others from behind mid second lap and went up Box at a fairly solid 3.7-4wkg losing a few guys. As expected the punch came out of the underground, one guy had a run from behind and got a gap, I kept the gas on over the top and got 1 second to the man behind me, kept going at 4.2-4.4 which was all I had left and pulled it to 4 second, holding that to the finish. I was 8th in B with the top 3 riding over 4wkg average.
First lap easily a PB for me but the second nothing special. 274w average power. Feel OK now and not totally ruined so I’m obviously doing something right!
Ooof and the double header, another workout before tea. 1 hour doing flat laps of London with WBR. Base of 2.5w with efforts of around 3.5w, starting at 2 mins a lap and building a minute a lap to a full lap (7 mins).