{"id":51666,"date":"2019-12-16T15:35:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T21:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=51666"},"modified":"2019-12-16T15:36:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T21:36:04","slug":"zwift-joy-ride-with-big-hills-joyful-all-the-way-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/16\/zwift-joy-ride-with-big-hills-joyful-all-the-way-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Zwift Joy Ride With Big Hills, Joyful All The Way Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the weather forecast said a cold front arrived as I got ready to begin today&#8217;s Zwifting. The temperature dropped from 78 degrees at 11:40 AM to 57 degrees when I finished at 1:05 PM. Good decision to stay inside and sweat it out on the Wahoo Kickr Snap smart trainer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I chose the SZR Evening Joy Ride following the 2019 UCI Worlds Harrogate Circuit. I registered in the &#8220;E&#8221; category thinking it wouldn&#8217;t be too hard. That was a wrong thought. 6% to 10% climbs appeared throughout the ride raising the question of why call this a joy ride? For me it was joy because the weather outside turned chilly below my 60 degree threshold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zwift Joy Ride With Big Hills, Joyful All The Way Up\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JzXO6KjdisI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the ride began I opened the Wahoo Utility app on my phone and activated ERG mode. ERG mode makes efforts more real, supposedly. After riding the circuit today I think the hills became very real. But that aside, the hills allowed me to catch up to the peloton when I fell behind. A few times I slowed down going up the climb because the fence appeared and I didn&#8217;t want to go pass it. I managed to not go through the fence one time during the ride; maybe a first unless I rode at the back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group today was less than 100 and sometimes I was at the back and other times near the front. According to Strava I set 3 personal records. 77 segments in Strava for this route, many of them climbs. A lot of segments in 15.13 miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/12-16-2019-Strava-Zwift-Route-Map-and-Segments.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"593\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"51663\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/12-16-2019-strava-zwift-route-map-and-segments\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/12-16-2019-Strava-Zwift-Route-Map-and-Segments.jpg?fit=1039%2C1051&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1039,1051\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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The temperature dropped from 78 degrees at 11:40 AM to 57 degrees when I finished at 1:05 PM. Good decision to stay inside <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/16\/zwift-joy-ride-with-big-hills-joyful-all-the-way-up\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5352],"tags":[5304,1891,5359],"class_list":["post-51666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-bike-ride","tag-blue-norcross-al","tag-virtual-training-ride","tag-zwift-szr-evening-joyride-e"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-drk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51667,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51666\/revisions\/51667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}