{"id":55271,"date":"2021-01-07T13:15:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T19:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=55271"},"modified":"2021-01-07T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T19:16:00","slug":"watopia-sand-and-sequoias-not-56-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/07\/watopia-sand-and-sequoias-not-56-degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"Watopia Sand and Sequoias, Not 56 Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zwift - Watopia Sand and Sequoias 12.5 miles 570 ft climbing\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-q6Lw0sGySo?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>I looked for a route in Zwift called Fuego Flats but couldn&#8217;t find it so I chose the Watopia Sand and Sequoias Route. Starting at 11:38AM the route said 12.5 miles and 575 ft of climbing. I ended up riding 12.75 miles with 571 feet of climbing in 43:20. I wasn&#8217;t alone with 15,434 other Zwifters online. Not sure if they were on the same course, in Watopia, or all of Zwift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outside the weather was sunny but only 56 degrees. Since that is below my threshold of 60 I stayed inside to ride in Zwift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_1145130_clean.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" data-attachment-id=\"55262\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021-01-07_1145130_clean\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_1145130_clean.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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data-image-title=\"2021-01-07_1153269\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_1153269.jpg?fit=600%2C330&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_1153269.jpg?fit=800%2C441&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_1153269-800x441.jpg?resize=800%2C441&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"55266\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_1153269.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021-01-07_1153269\/\" class=\"wp-image-55266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_1153269.jpg?resize=800%2C441&amp;ssl=1 800w, 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data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021-01-07_12130413\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_12130413.jpg?fit=2544%2C1401&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2544,1401\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2021-01-07_12130413\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_12130413.jpg?fit=600%2C330&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_12130413.jpg?fit=800%2C441&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_12130413-800x441.jpg?resize=800%2C441&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"55267\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_12130413.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021-01-07_12130413\/\" class=\"wp-image-55267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_12130413.jpg?resize=800%2C441&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_12130413.jpg?resize=600%2C330&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_12130413.jpg?resize=640%2C352&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_12130413.jpg?resize=1536%2C846&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_12130413.jpg?resize=2048%2C1128&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2021-01-07_12130413.jpg?w=2400 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The route started out flat but at 6.32 miles the hills began going mostly up until 10.61 miles. From there to the finish it was downhill with a few undulations. The climbs were 4% to 6% except for a couple of 8% and 9% short ones. I rode with various groups until the hills began where I was along except for passing. This was not an event, just me biking the course. The profile is below the Strava map. I earned 8 bronze medals over the ride. As far as I know this is the first time I rode this specific course though I have bike pieces of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-7-2021-Strava-Zwift-Bike-Ride-Summary-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"548\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"55270\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/1-7-2021-strava-zwift-bike-ride-summary-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-7-2021-Strava-Zwift-Bike-Ride-Summary-1.jpg?fit=1049%2C1148&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1049,1148\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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Starting at 11:38AM the route said 12.5 miles and 575 ft of climbing. I ended up riding <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/07\/watopia-sand-and-sequoias-not-56-degrees\/\"><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":[22,5352],"tags":[2560,212,5297,5304,5442,5429,5400],"class_list":["post-55271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","category-virtual-bike-ride","tag-bicycle","tag-bicycling","tag-bike","tag-blue-norcross-al","tag-sand-and-sequoias","tag-virtual-ride","tag-watopia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-ent","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55271","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=55271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55272,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55271\/revisions\/55272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}