Tour of New York

 No I didn't win. I struggled with those climbs on Saturday. But, I did the whole event of three back to back stages. I'm currently in third. I was in sixth place after round two but it looks like a couple of people did not ride all three stages. I expected to finish in fourth. This was some real good training and I finished my 199, 200, and 201 races. That is fairly good for less than four years, about one per week. I did my first race March 9 2017. I'm just using this to train for the real Tour, Tour de Zwift 2021. It's two weeks from now. Of course, there is one day of a big climb too. It's the epic for the short races so it won't be too rough. We will give it our very best. See you there.

Edit to come: Official results: https://zwiftpower.com/league.php?id=586

Wagner 86:23

Dorota 90:40

Kryder 94:12

Nationals Switzerland Win

 Just finished the race.....ouch that long distance is hard. I went out with the lead group and had to do the first hill the reverse, very hard. I managed it in just 4:00 minutes but really felt it when we approached the second climb of the four (two laps of Figure Eight Reverse). I only felt good when I looked at the results. lol. I was dying for the last half hour. At least I was able to push hard on the final climb where they put the early finish line at the kom forward. I knew I was in the lead from watching the kom times. It was a hard fought battle nonetheless. I was surprised more entrants did not show up for these nationals. I think more than ten days notice would have gone a long way too. Zwift continues to submit last minute races for the masses. We've been waiting since February of 2019 for these events.

I'm also sad that the Suisse have no women in the world championships and only one man. (If he has the best time next week then will he become champion?) Below are the winners and podium for the Swiss Nationals. That hard start with the top riders was worth all the pain now.

Results and Sunday's Results

1. Fabian Geyer      1:09.42                          Lars Foster 1:05.34 (not in ZP official results)

1. Zee Kryder        1:16.29

2. Lukas Eugster     1:09.43

2. Lisa Lutteneggor 1:18.02

3. Pascal Sechaud   1:09.46

3. Kate Lane           1:19.12

It's a long list but I will edit in all of the winners:

Austria Kathi Machner 1:14.19

Spain Cristina Torres 1:16.43

Ireland Suzy Johnston 1:19.59

Winners pending World's Final:

New Zealand Celia Secret 1:17.23      Ella Harris 1:15.11

Australia Heidi Hunt 1:18.12              Sarah Gigante 1:13.27

South Africa Cmon Raoch 1:23.02 /  Moolman Pasio 1:13.27

Japan Shoko Kashiki 1:08.33

Belgium Wendy Mathie 1:13.25 

Columbia (pending worlds)           Natalia Franco 1:15.36

Denmark Fie Osteby 1:13.31         Annika Langvad 1:13.28

Germany Julia Decker 1:10.33

France   Courtney Nelson 1:07.54

Italy Francesca Ravazzolo  1:12.14

Norway Borghild Lovset 1:10.39

Netherlands Hanneke van der Plas 1:29.33 / Anna van der Breggen 1:15.15

Portugal  Ana Santos 1:17.14

Poland    Aurela Nerlo 1:13.20

Sweden   Corneli Engstrom 1:08.32

England  Alice Lethbridge 1:07.12

Canada  Courtney Nelson 1:07.43

USA    Kristen Kulchinsky 1:08.44   ( note: DQ False data Antonia Reznikov)

Congrats to all.