Mike Hagen says:

A longish and flattish course, and in Canada, suits me, right?  So the plan for today was maximal effort and to have my best race in a while.  Got a really good start, maybe my best in months. Once the ghosting settled down I could see I was hanging just outside the top 10; bit of a gap, but s.cata and boogybill came by and we worked our way on.  It was a hard pace, but I thought I could do it for an hour.  Nope.  Hit a low spot, got gapped, shat out, and off the back.  Bummer.  Soloed much of the middle part.  Tuden, Niels, and tranberg steamed by, I tried to catch the train, but couldn’t do it.  Saw that SwissChris, Svard, and SillySil were slowly gaining and would inevitably catch me, so I eased to wait for them.  Really nice to ride in a group of Muicker blue!  We were about 600 m ahead of the next group when they caught me, and I thought we’d have a nice cruise to the finish.  But, no; 14 km to go, saw that the Grochang, m-forby, hj2010 chasers were only 400 m back!  And pulling some massive watts.  Upped the effort then.  I thought we four worked really well together, not perfectly organized, but that is very hard virtually.  We had a cycle going, and seemed to be paying good attention to keeping the gaps between us to about 3 – 4 m.  But not enough, with only 2 km to go, the chasers caught us, just as we were overhauling yayarecki.  I think.  Not sure what happened the last bit, not enough oxygen in my brain!  That was a fun race. And, no, Neil, I don’t remember any scenery.

Manuel Lamber says:

I waited for this race in the afternoon, I wanted to see my improvements on the field… and instead…. due to discussions with my son, I managed to start at 8.03pm, 500 meters from position 62, what a drag. So I start hunting, head down and maximum effort… and what an effort, I want at least the top 50, then after 11 km I start to get there, then I decide to continue attacking, I want the top 40 but it gets tough. Seeing your comments with so much draw, well unfortunately I didn’t find any. When I saw that the next one was Kyle and 2 other Muckers (DolphWader and Mick_Michel) I gave all my energy to capture them… I got close, very close. Let’s keep this race as hard training and regret for not starting on time.

Andy_UP says:

Started fast, but not all out. I wanted to be in a nice fast drafting group, as this route suits perfect for this. After a few 100m I rolled into first position, with Matthias Heil, the famous cannonball starter, in my wheel. I honestly don’t know what happend. Anyway, I didn’t see many superfast guys. Alieno, Karel, Stefan Smit and Irollin. This is going to be an intresting race. So the fast guys eventually took off, didn’t really try to follow, I know I can’t in the long run. So settled in the second group (racing for 6th to 10th position!). Special thanks to the strong Diego Donati, he did 80% of the pulling, keeping a steady pace, fast enough to not let the big chasing group get closer, without surges so I could maintain the draft around 95% of my FTP. s.cata closed the gap on his own in the last kms, so a top10 was suddenly uncertain. I had to beat 1 person. So I focussed on Pavelfontyn, who was the least strong of the 5 other. Took his wheel, kept in the draft as everyone took off. I passed him 150m before the line. Top10! Wait a minute, I’m 9th… Checking the results and the Swiss woman Coci, who finished just infront of me, has a DNF. She must be very annoyed. So for the record, she was 9th. I had an IF of 1.01 on 1h12’35” so I was on my limit. Very fun, very happy!

Nagy Róbert says:

Wow, guys, that was a perfect race, just one mention: more from this!!
Flat, and long, that’s for me.

And I’m extra happy I could ride with the hard-core Mucker-team for a while 🙂

Anyway, I’s still quite weak, I don’t know why. Just checked my spring-races this year, where I could do 240-50 Watts with lower bpms, now I was happy t exceed 230 at max.. That’s it, maybe still a post-covid stuff, hope it will be better. I think I sit back to the good old workouts, they’ll be good for me these weeks.
But if you do something similar to this, I’ll pop up 🙂

Niels Brynnum says:

The plan from the beginning of the race was to join the Muckers 3 w/kg race 🚴🏻‍♂️💨💨 but around the 15 km mark I saw my strong fellow 🇩🇰 “Tuden” passing our group so I decided to join him. We keep a good pace and worked well together 👍🏻 We got accompanied by another really strong 🇩🇰 “Tranberg” and the 3 of us stayed together until “Tranberg” unfortunately got dropped around 10 km from the finish line. Tuden and I continued and caught another group where we stayed with until the sprint. Tuden opened the sprint with 350 m to go, I tried to catch his wheel but I 😅 did not manage to pass him despite it got close towards the finish line.

Jeff65 says:

How could a dull flat route be so much fun, the answer is join the Muckers Worldwide peloton! As in previous comments, we all rode together, taking in turns on the front, and trying no to go over the 3w/kg, think with a couple of miles to go, for one reason or another, the group had 10 riders in it,so for a bit of fun I asked the boss man Neil, if I could attack with 0.8 miles to go. As I’m no sprinter ( or hill climber) that was the only way I was going to win our mini race, had a great lead out from Neil, and S . Ludford held the other riders up. Caught rouvy1 Byron on the line, and I think there were only a few seconds between the 10 riders, brilliant result for me, who is usually last when we do a hill climb. Many thanks for organising these races 👍