Jeff says:

After race one, didn’t hold too much hope for race two, after exhausting myself earlier, but too my surprise I managed to stay with the leaders, until the first climb, and then as per usual got dropped! Managed to catch Ryanio, and nearly caught Kin Kwan, but was pretty happy to roll in,in 10th position. More flat rides please!

Andy_UP says:

At the start, everybody was looking at that one 3Km climb and didn’t want to put to much effort in the first 4Km of the ride. So a big group formed and it was nice that everyone had the feeling they where riding for first place at this moment. All this was about to change on the climb. I calculated how much power I could give from top to bottom on this climb, and so I started relative slow and saw about 4 guys riding away from me on the start of the climb. I don’t know why my teammate Denny stayed with me, as I think he could go faster at this point, but maybe he did some math on his own, or he thought we could be working together after the climb. Anyway, it gave me confidence not to be alone after the climb. We rolled up 2 riders that started the climb too fast, and left them behind. The 2 strongest riders of the race, at least in my eyes, Ed and Nelson, where still in front. They where about 150m ahaid, and the gap wasn’t increasing, yet I had little hope to ever see the front again, as I know they are too strong for me. I did my best to take pulls, but clearly Denny was again a little bit stronger and my main concern was not to get dropped and see the chasers flew past me. A 4th place would be great! By the last little uphill, I felt I had not much left and somehow, Denny keeps going strong. I had no idea we were closing in on the 2 in front, as I was focussed on staying in Denny’s draft. Suddenly the avatars pop up in the distance with only 500m to go. The gap was down to 50m and Denny kept increasing his speed. I saw all the stars and planets as I too had to increase the power a lot with empty legs. We flew past Ed with 100m to go and I had to drop the power. To my surprise, Denny claimed victory. I don’t know how he managed to pass Nelson also. Very very happy with my 3rd and a victory for the team. This was so much fun!

Daniel says:

Didn’t do the warm up race and saved my legs for the this race. The route looked quite good to me, more flats than uphill sections. The first and longest climb started at 5km and we were 9 riders in the leading group. The pace so far was not to high and I felt quite good. Right at the bottom of the climb “nelsonsnyder” and “EdAlves” started to attack by going over 5.0 W/kg. Long climb so I had to save some energy and let them go. My teammate “AndUp” and me found a good rhythm at 4.2 W/kg and we passed a few riders. When we reached the top we were in 3rd and 4th position. Gap to the front duo was about 80m. I was quite long in the red zone and happy to recover a bit on the downhill. At halftime the next climb was waiting fo us. Andy and me worked excellent together but the gap to the front duo increased to 150m/17 secs. The last 10km were almost flat by only 40hm left. We were pushing and taking turns but we didn’t get closer to the leading duo. Didn’t really think about chasing them anymore. I just wanted to give everything and having fun on the bike. We were pushing hard at these little last climb. I noticed that Andy was struggling but giving everything to hold my wheel. There was still a huge gap of 110m to the front duo. At the downhill I kept pushing hard and we were chasing the leaders. We kept the speed hight which was good. About 350m before the finish I noticed that the leaders were tired and we had a realisitc chance to catch them. I started my sprint and gave everything I had (which was more than I thought) and first passed “EdAlves” and 40m before the finsih line I got “Nelsonsnyder” as well. Was an great race and a pleasure to ride with my teammate Andy. Was just excellent teamwork. We supported each other by taking turns and that gave us the opportunity to be on the podium. Thanks Andy!