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Zwift - Volcano Climb in Watopia

I did both better and worse than I had hoped on this one. I shot out of the gate perhaps a bit too aggressively. After the first 10 minutes I could tell I was pushing too hard and needed to back down some. At about the 15 minute mark, my tendon started to act up and caused a bit of additional discomfort and concern. But, I kept getting the notifications about how far ahead of my previous lap record I was and just felt like I needed to push on. Towards the end, I pushed power back up a little bit again and made a decent charge for the finish line. 

I think my biggest mistake was not backing down on the descents in the beginning. I would charge up the hills, perhaps a bit too hard, and then on the down hill I was just returning to my target power of 280-290 Watts. I should have gone easier on the down hills I think.

The course was good overall though. It was mostly devoid of gravel and considering it had rained last night, it was fairly dry. Temps were in the low 70's and the sun was mostly behind the clouds. About the only thing one could have asked for better would have been a little bit lower humidity (can't win them all).

Throughout the race, I passed the rider in front of me about 12 minutes into the race. Then around 20 minutes into the race I was passed by the rider who started behind me.  Towards the end, I started passing a bunch of kids who were started much earlier. I kept cheering them on as I passed telling them not to give up and telling them how many miles they had to the finish line.

In the end, I finished much faster than I anticipated. But, I wasn't at as high of an average or normalized power as I had hoped. Part of that I'm sure is the tendon issue. Some of it I'm sure is the lack of training this week because of the tendon issue, and perhaps some of it is because you give up a little bit of power on a TT bike to hold a more aerodynamic position.  In either case, I'm both happy and sad at the same time.

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Zwift - Volcano Climb in Watopia

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