Today is 16 Oct 22. Time to review the purpose of this Blog - again! It is 2 years since the last review. 🤕 2022 was shaping up well and I was on track for a decent middle distance Duathlon race. Then COVID hit me! I tried to salvage the race season but never felt strong or healthy. Looking to 2023 now and focussing on being healthy and some sprint Duathlon racing mixed with some bike TT fun on the Canyon CF






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Saturday 20 February 2021

Welsh Grand Tour (WGT) Winter Zwift Race League - Final Results

 I mentioned in a previous post the Zwift racing I had been doing with old RAF Tri buddy, Mark ,Frank, Whittle. His WhittleFit team, based in Wales had been participating in the WGt Winter series. As I had joined Frank's training group on Tuesday mornings, he kindly invited me to race with his team. As a Zwift B Cat, I was in the largest race group, with over 140 Zwifters. The final race was last weekend and the league final standings would be decided. I had a decent result on the Bologna course and that managed to bin my worst ride, having ridden 7 of the 8 races (6 to count).

I managed to finish in 6th position in the B Cat league, which was pleasing as the racing was competitive. I wish I had eased down more for the first few races as I started quite fatigued in these events and my results were not great, when compared to more recent races where I had fresh legs!


But the series was most enjoyable and provided a race focus that would have been impossible to maintain through the dark winter months. The good news it that there will be a Spring/Summer series commencing in March. This time there will be a joint bike/run focus, which will suit me well - look forward to that starting.

Talking of running, I have tried to up the speed work. . .but nothing too drastic; just ease into it. I completed a set of 8 x 800m with a relaxed 1 min walk RI on the road on Thursday. Although I had tired legs from the previous day's Haute Route Zwift Group Workout, the 800s were ok, averaging 3:48 per K pace. This was probably quicker than I intended. I would like to bring the pace down to 3:30 per K by summer for this type of session. That should indicate that I could break 18 min for 5K.

Now there's a nice target!

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