Please look out for our training ride on the same day of the week, Thursday, every week at 21.00 BST (9,00pm) in the UK, 4.00pm EDT in the US, and at 22.00 European time (remembering it is summer / daylight saving time just now).

The Glasgow Green Cycle Club (GGCC) training ride series is intended to provide a Thursday evening training ride (European time) for A, B, C and D riders, and open to all timezones. All categories start together. You should ride as a group, following the instructions of the beacon ride leader for sprints, intervals and spicy segments, regrouping after each.

GGCC is a Glasgow based cycling club whose “in real life” (irl) club runs and training rides are always organized into pace groups, which match the Zwift categories (see below) quite well. GGCC also has a good race pedigree and presence in Scotland, and so we have organized both our Zwift race and training ride series to suit what we believe is relevant to bike riders’ interests in performance and improvement in our Club, in other Glasgow clubs, in Scotland and the UK. Racers will, no doubt, aspire to category A.

As we expect our club’s steady riders to be able to ride 50 miles at or around a 15mph average on our Sunday rides, such steady riding members will be comfortable with Zwift Category D, and we cater for all abilities, up through the Zwift A, B and C levels too. In our Zwift training rides, we will start with a steady roll-out to allow riders to warm up. The beacon ride leader will communicate via Zwift message and/or Discord to vary the pace to allow for sprints, intervals and optionally a mini-race towards the end of the ride, with regrouping after each segment. Make as much use of drafting as you can, enabling more effective sprinting and intervals.

Results can be seen at the end of the ride on screen, and we will, in common with many other ride series, publish your results on zwiftpower.com too, based on each category.

All bikes are allowed, and no restrictions on power-ups for the time being. Please add GGCC (X) to your Zwift name to allow your ride presence to be recognized, where X is your desired ride category. Categories are as below, related to your Functional Threshold Power (FTP) wattage:

Categories: Use your FTP and then divide by your weight in kg, then pick the correct group.
A: 4.0 W/kg FTP or higher (what GGCC calls “ride”)
B: 3.2 W/kg to 3.99 W/kg FTP (what GGCC calls “cheeky challenge”)
C: 2.5 W/kg to 3.19 W/kg FTP (what GGCC calls “challenge”)
D: Under 2.49 W/kg FTP (what GGCC calls “steady”)

PLEASE NOTE: Strava data for our rides must be open (not private or hidden). Please use a heart monitor so that we can monitor correlated power and heart rate to help assure fair riding.
You can use our Discord channel to talk to each other at https://discord.gg/UDhdEQAOpens a new window
Please see the GGCC Zwift page link at http://www.glasgowgreencycleclub.co.uk/Opens a new window for more.