MUCKERS SKODA La Vuelta Race Night Race 1 of 2 09/03/23
Rouvy Route Used: LA Vuelta 2022 | stage 11 – Cabo De Gata | 15.38miles | 564 ft climbing
Route 3 from the Skoda We Love Cycling Challenge
49 Registered | 31 finishers | 1 dnf | 17 dns
Before we start this race report, I do just want to extend the invitation to you all to join the Muckers Worldwide Team if you don’t have a team or wish to change your team name on Rouvy. If you do any of my races then you are more than welcome to join and add Muckers Worldwide as your team name, and if you wish (and this is totally optional) to be added to the WhatsApp Group for chats and banter before and after the races?? If you’d like to join the WhatsApp group (15+ regular racers and Rouvy users on it so far) Just let me know either through a comment on here or via the chat on Rouvy and we will sort it out.
So, to this first race of the night. A nice 15 miler with only 564 ft of climbing awaited us with a very reasonable 50 minutes to complete before race 2. 32 riders on the line and at ten past seven (UK Time) the race started and we had a nice first 2 miles but then the next 4 miles is when all the climbing happened leaving a long (approx. 9 mile) gradual downhill to the finish. An Interesting Route.
A New Winner for us tonight was the Portuguese rider “JoseCostaRonda” with a superb time of just over 34 minutes, with “Simon_Hahnenbruch” coming home in 2nd just 30 seconds behind. Seems we had a sprint for 3rd with the next 5 riders finishing within a few seconds of each other but it was “robertkmita21” who got the better of them all and claimed the bronze medal place.
4th came “transberg“, 5th ” karel_sousek” , 6th “PatrykS_Gdynia_PL” and 7th was “stijn1” but this could have been in any order on any other day, it was that close. 8th was “duccioc” , 9th “feelslikemonday” and in the final top 10 position was “Pol_Florens” , just 2 minutes and 20 seconds behind the winner.
Best placed Muckers Worldwide rider was “shrek-1970-Challenger” in 15th, showing what a competitive field we had out there today as we normally get easily into the top 10. Better luck in the next race team!.
Thank you everyone for joining the race, I hope you enjoyed it and if you get the chance, please leave a comment on how the race went from your perspective.
cheers
22nd and a nice 243watts average for me on this one. I was doing well until the long climb and i just got dropped from the pack and as I hit the long gradual downhill, I was 0.3 behind the pack and 0.3 in front of the chasing pack!! The dreaded no-mans-land! Decisions Decisions??? drop back or head down?? I decided to keep my head down and see if I could at least keep the gap and finish in my position and although the pressure was strong from tomek and marcin, I held on. Glad I’ve now got the Wattbike back from the factory and had a set up I could trust as well!
Thanks again for organizing this great race. Indeed another very competitive race. I was able to break away at the peak of the hill and caught Shrek 1970. Two of us were riding nicely together and keep a small margin from the chasing group. Pan Rorisi were riding strong and caught us at the last 800m. I can’t sprint, yet Shrek1970 has good legs and was able to beat Pan at the finish line. Kudos to shrek1970!!!