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First Virtual Zwift Duathlon Race

 

So I completed my first Virtual Zwift Duathlon Race! Also, this is my first "Masters" multisport race!

Pre-Setup, The race is 35mins on the bike, a 10 min. transition window and then a 15 min. run. I set up a bottle for the ride, a bottle for the run, recovery drink and a couple Gu's. I laid out my shoes set up with the foot pod. I don't have a treadmill so my plan was to drive up to the gym quickly after the bike and hop on the treadmill. The garage door broke that morning so I needed to jog up to the gym or attempt to run with my phone outside.. I went with jogging to the gym. 

The bike:


My setup was my road bike on the trainer. I warmed up the system for about 10 mins and then calibrated my trainer. Next step was to launch Zwift and get logged into the race event. I stretched soft peddled some and then went for the bike. I hurt a lot from not having been used to hard efforts on the trainer. my distance was less than what I hoped for but it hurt. I gather my gear and jogged up to the gym for the run.

The run:


I got to the gym with a couple mins to make sure Zwift was working on my phone and that my foot pod and HR strap connected correctly. Once the 10 min. transition was over I started out at 6:30 mile pace with the goal of running negative splits each 5 min. set. 

Overall thoughts. It was fun. On the bike there were about 240+ participants. I started off around 180 and slowly moved up to 150 ish. This was a definite hit to the ego. On the run about 200 people started and I started off around 70ish and finished around 40th. Results are point based, the bike is 1 pt for every 5 meters, and the run is 1 pt for every 1 meter. No official results yet, the Zwift system and race system are not playing well together..

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