Pacing: Carolyn's experience in Zwift's Haute Route event

Here is a great note from Carolyn that she put in her Training Peaks comments. It really details nicely her experience of doing a good job pacing an event on Zwift - she moved from the back of the group all the way to the front!

Pacing on this day was particularly important as it finished with the Alpe de Zwift where there was no hiding.

"OK so I nearly fell off the bike, but I really did think I gave it a great effort on this one. Definitely didn't feel as hard as Stage 1 for me but maybe because of your advice I went out much slower on this one (although my HR probably didn't show it). I think at some point at the start I was 270th of 293 but just kept it going on the rollers and tried to stay with the group I was in (yep there was a little group - not the mass like you probably started with though). By the time we got to the Epic I think I was still in the 200's but by the time we got to the Alpe I was 130's. Really worked the Alpe (so nice not having the HR ceiling here) and wanted to finish it in under an hour again. Never felt like it was not doable and kept picking away at the climb. Found a nice rhythm and just went for it on every bend. Overtook so many people on this climb and finally ended up in 43rd overall and about 5 or 6th in the C Category! Happy with the result and did push at the end as I really had no clue whether I was under an hour. When I got to the top and saw 58:33 I was happy and 5th overall female! Yay. Not bad for an old fart Andrew :)."

Generally how did I feel about the whole Haute Route thingy - I loved it!

You can see here (check on the dotted power trend line) what a great job Carolyn did with her pacing, building and building across the whole event.

Where others went off the line at full gas and faded, Carolyn stayed calm and put her pacing to good use. She saved her best effort for the final hour where she knew those that had started too hard would be fading. Good job Carolyn!