I decided to ride Zwift today rather than outside. I didn’t create a meetup but looked at the routes in the Makuri Islands and found the Turf N Surf one that I have rode before. Some of the roads are in other Makuri Islands routes but there were a few new ones. I rode my Blue Norcross AL bike mounted on the Wahoo Kickr Core trainer. The weather outside: 64 degrees, cloudy, wind E 10 mph. I didn’t look up the route information on ZwiftInsider.com before the ride but the brief description in Zwift said 15.3 miles with 645 feet of climbing. I rode 15.39 miles and climbed 650 feet but I rode some after finishing the route. ZwiftInsider.com describes the route, “This route is conceptually simple: a counterclockwise loop from Neokyo to Urukazi and back. And it starts of easily enough, too: the first 14.5km are essentially flat or downhill as you wind through Neokyo then descend the slot canyon and ride along the beach of Urukazi.”

As I rode to the 7.7 mile halfway point I was nowhere near halfway on the climbing which meant the last 7 miles was going to be hilly as you can see on the route profile above. Since I didn’t ride in a meetup the gold leaders beacon was not present. There were numerous Zwifters on the route and when I opened the companion app it showed over 17,000 online.

Strava reported my PR on Festival Harbor Climb CCW (6:41). Only 4 Strava segments on this route, maybe because it is new.