Zwift Thursday TTT - 10/30/25
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Jonathan O'Keeffe
Oct 24, 2025, 8:52:56 PMOct 24
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For this year's winter Zwift season on Thursday nights, we are trying a new format, and participating in the WTRL Team Time Trial. This is one of the largest racing series on Zwift, with hundreds of teams competing every week, on a variety of courses.
Teams consist of between three and eight riders, and can be mixed-gender, with mixed ability levels. We can enter multiple teams if we have more than eight riders interested in participating in a given week. All riders on the team ride together, alternating pulls, with a goal of achieving the fastest possible time. Races are on Thursday nights, and usually last between 30 and 45 minutes.
To participate, you need to take the one-time step of creating a free account at WTRL. Once your account is set up, there will be a sign-up link posted each week, which you will click in order to register for that week's event. Then you just show up in Zwift and enter the event as usual, and you will be placed on the starting line with other riders on the team. We use Discord for voice communication during the race, which is super-important in a TTT to coordinate pulls and race strategy. You can access our Discord channel here (is.gd/nccdiscord).
This week's race will be on Thursday October 30 at 6:10PM Eastern, on the Watopia's Waistband course in Watopia. This is a mostly-flat 17-mile course around the outer rim of Watopia. The sign-up link is here. (https://www.wtrl.racing/RacePass/Y3JKL2FWSGtmZmJTb0lOYzdtaHN0aXZoZVczSTJZU1lDbEFsc3ZkMFBrdz0=)
If you have any questions about participating, feel free to post here or email me at jonathan...@gmail.com.
Teams consist of between three and eight riders, and can be mixed-gender, with mixed ability levels. We can enter multiple teams if we have more than eight riders interested in participating in a given week. All riders on the team ride together, alternating pulls, with a goal of achieving the fastest possible time. Races are on Thursday nights, and usually last between 30 and 45 minutes.
To participate, you need to take the one-time step of creating a free account at WTRL. Once your account is set up, there will be a sign-up link posted each week, which you will click in order to register for that week's event. Then you just show up in Zwift and enter the event as usual, and you will be placed on the starting line with other riders on the team. We use Discord for voice communication during the race, which is super-important in a TTT to coordinate pulls and race strategy. You can access our Discord channel here (is.gd/nccdiscord).
This week's race will be on Thursday October 30 at 6:10PM Eastern, on the Watopia's Waistband course in Watopia. This is a mostly-flat 17-mile course around the outer rim of Watopia. The sign-up link is here. (https://www.wtrl.racing/RacePass/Y3JKL2FWSGtmZmJTb0lOYzdtaHN0aXZoZVczSTJZU1lDbEFsc3ZkMFBrdz0=)
If you have any questions about participating, feel free to post here or email me at jonathan...@gmail.com.
Jonathan O'Keeffe
Oct 30, 2025, 8:41:27 PMOct 30
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We had five riders for tonight's NCC Team Time Trial -- Melissa, Carson, Shawn, Bill and I tackled the Watopia's Waistband route, a flat 16-mile loop around the outer perimeter of Watopia.
Bill had some technological challenges at the start -- he got on our team Discord chat, but his mic didn't work, so he could hear us but we couldn't hear him. We managed to work through that though, and our pulls went smoothly in the early going despite the communications challenges. The tech gremlins struck again though about six miles in, when Bill's power suddenly went to zero. Not sure whether this was a network outage or a trainer issue (since we couldn't hear him), but we decided to forge ahead without him.
With five starters, the fourth person over the line is the time that counts, so once we lost Bill, we couldn't spare anyone else. Melissa started to creep into the red zone about two-thirds of the way through, so she sat in the rest of the way while Carson, Shawn and I traded pulls. Everyone put in big efforts on their final pulls, and Melissa managed to hang on, and we finished together with a time of 40:25. Results are still trickling in from the west coast as I write this, but currently we are placed 68th of 180 in our category, which I think is pretty respectable given that we did most of the race with only four riders.
We'll be racing again next Thursday night, I'll post the sign-up link once it becomes available during the day on Friday.
Bill had some technological challenges at the start -- he got on our team Discord chat, but his mic didn't work, so he could hear us but we couldn't hear him. We managed to work through that though, and our pulls went smoothly in the early going despite the communications challenges. The tech gremlins struck again though about six miles in, when Bill's power suddenly went to zero. Not sure whether this was a network outage or a trainer issue (since we couldn't hear him), but we decided to forge ahead without him.
With five starters, the fourth person over the line is the time that counts, so once we lost Bill, we couldn't spare anyone else. Melissa started to creep into the red zone about two-thirds of the way through, so she sat in the rest of the way while Carson, Shawn and I traded pulls. Everyone put in big efforts on their final pulls, and Melissa managed to hang on, and we finished together with a time of 40:25. Results are still trickling in from the west coast as I write this, but currently we are placed 68th of 180 in our category, which I think is pretty respectable given that we did most of the race with only four riders.
We'll be racing again next Thursday night, I'll post the sign-up link once it becomes available during the day on Friday.
Jaime Davila
Oct 30, 2025, 8:52:11 PMOct 30
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Nice!
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