So that was an exciting week. We went from two teams of 4+ to one merged team, to only one team with 2 new joiners, and a solo fast rider, all in about 48 hrs, and still managed to get a BTS2  team of 7 on the start line ready to go at 6:17.5 .

Well, we thought we did, but Zwift technology caught us out and sent Matt and David off on another race, and then Mike L. had a power meter problem at the start, , so it wasn’t till about 6 km in that we finally had a team of 5 racing in a line, of whom 4 finished, all within 1 second.

Andrea was kept busy picking stragglers up and pulling them back into the group. It was an excellent practice at staying together and drafting, and we did overtake a few teams, but I’m sure nothing to shout about this week time-wise. WTRL hasn’t published results yet anyway, looks like their web service is really suffering, but you can see your individual times on Zwiftpower.com.

For the 5^th week out of 6  we had a BTS team on the start line, new people joining every week which is great, and more learning about how to get all the tech working.

Next week’s race:  Thursday 29th October 2020:  WTRL Team Time Trial #80,   Watopia’s Waistband – 1 Lap (27.977km).

We’ve entered BTS and BTS 2 as usual for the 6.05 pm race.

 

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