Another week and another virtual team time trial at BTS.  Here are the times and speeds from Thursday the 5th of November. For some reason, they are not on the WTRL website so Liam kindly manually created them by taking the times from Zwiftpower and subtracting the ‘wait’ time.

So after Matt and David’s ‘lost in Zwift’ episode of 3  weeks ago, Liam was the one who messed up on choosing the right pen and ended up riding the course solo,  with only a few other lonely stragglers for occasional company.

Tip: go on Zwift early.

Looking at our two teams, it’s fair to say we’re enjoying it and the drafting keeps getting better. The flat/hilly/flat/hilly combination made for quite a challenge in terms of conserving some energy for the final sprint.

Lesson learned, we now know that if you are not in the right pen at the start, it’s impossible to find each other out on the course (we did try) even though we are in the same location. So the only way that we will have one BTS team chase another ‘live’  is if we start in the same pen or category.

Next week it’s back to our old haunt and favorite for RedBull timelapse fast laps:  2 laps of the flat desert course,  Tempus Fugit. It’s a bit longer than this week, 37km. Based on our times from the last flat outing that means approximately a 1hr ride for BTS2, 53 mins for BTS.  Both teams are entered for the 6:05 event.

Remember, all BTS members welcome.

 

Course	Dist./ km	Date	Time	Riders	Category	Position	Fastest team km/h	Us km/h	% diff to top
UCI Harrogate	27.6	10-Sep	0:45:16	AT, CD, LM, OS	Frappe	92/144	41.55	36.58	12%
Watopia Hilly Reverse	27.71	24-Sep	0:43:13	AT, CD, LM, OS	Frappe	127/149	44.18	38.46	13%
Volcano Flat Reverse	37.1	01-Oct	0:57:07	AC, AT, CD, LM, MS, OS	Frappe	115/148	44.49	38.98	12%
Sand and Sequoias	43.1	08-Oct	01:03:07	AC, AD, AT, CD, LM, MS, OS, SW	Frappe	119/204	44.95	40.68	9%
Watopia Flat	30.465	15-Oct	44:15.1	AC, AD, CD, EN, OS	Frappe	83/172	45.15	41.49	8%
			49:46.9	AT, LM, ML, MS, SW	Latte	107/135	42.63	36.88	13%
Innsbruck	27.2	22-Oct	39.56	OS	Frappe			40.2
				AT, LM, ML, MS, MB, SW, DH	Latte
Richmond UCI	32.8	05-Nov	51:45.0	OS, CD, MW	Frappe	159/215	43.54	38.03	13%
			01:01:32	AT, DH, MB, ML, MS, SW	Latte	193/205	40.45	32	21%