Week 11 Results: NCC Zwift Winter Road Race Series, 3/16/23

By Jonathan O'Keeffe
Published 03/16/2023; Updated 03/16/2023

Our Winter Zwift racing series concluded with a super-long race on Watopia’s Big Foot Hills course, featuring five significant climbs over 42 miles. As per our usual season finale rules, double points were on the line, with a lot of places up for grabs.

Almost everyone had an excuse tonight. Dusty and Melissa were skiing all day. Henry was also skiing all day, and was also HR-limited, but still turned in a solid effort. Zinj didn’t feel like doing a long ride 🙂

We had a big group up front as we rode throught the desert, which whittled down to 30 or so as we passed over the Titan’s Grove KOM. Dusty lost contact and fell off by about 30 seconds from my chase-1 group, but then put on a masterclass solo TT effort to bridge the gap, and then go off the front solo for another ten minutes.

My group eventually caught Dusty, but he went off the front again at the finish and grabbed eighth place overall.

Tim and Melissa traded places in the chase groups just behind us and finished just outside the top half, with Henry just behind.

This race wraps up our winter season, thanks for everyone for participating; looking forward to seeing you all out on the road this spring and summer!

Results for Week Eleven

  1. Dusty King (B) – 8 of 47 = 89.4 * 2 = 178.8 points
  2. Jonathan O’Keeffe (B) – 9 of 47 = 87.1 * 2 = 174.2 points
  3. Melissa Warwick (B) – 25 of 47 = 66.8 * 2 = 133.6 points
  4. Tim Downey (C) – 26 of 47 = 60.9 * 2 = 121.8 points
  5. Henry van den Broek (B) – 31 of 47 = 38.0 * 2 = 76.0 points
  6. Zinj Guo (B) – 0 of 47 (DNS) = 0.0 * 2 = 0.0 points

Final Winter Series Standings

  1. Jonathan O’Keeffe (11 races) – 1037.7 points
  2. Dusty King (11 races) – 1012.2 points
  3. Melissa Warwick (9 races) – 829.2 points
  4. Zinj Guo (10 races) – 828.5 points
  5. Tim Downey (8 races) – 782.9 points
  6. Henry van den Broek (7 races) – 467.9 points
  7. Mark Hewitt (4 races) – 357.8 points
  8. Scott Yarosh (2 races) – 198.3 points
  9. Chris Stratton (2 races) – 140.6 points
  10. Jay Gump (1 race) – 98.4 points
  11. Michael Bello (1 race) – 80.9 points
  12. Charlie Bailey (1 race) – 74.4 points
  13. Patrick Rondeau (1 race) – 39.3 points