{"id":55491,"date":"2021-01-29T14:05:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T20:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=55491"},"modified":"2021-01-29T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T20:08:11","slug":"tour-de-zwift-stage-6-frances-route-grand-vitesse-or-high-speed-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/29\/tour-de-zwift-stage-6-frances-route-grand-vitesse-or-high-speed-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Zwift Stage 6: France&#8217;s Route Grand Vitesse or High Speed Road"},"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=\"Tour de Zwift Stage 6: France&#039;s Route Grand Vitesse or High Speed Road\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8cru8bhG4fo?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>Stage 6 of the Tour de Zwift went live this morning. I signed up for the 12:03 PM event in Group C bike ride. The route moved to France on the R.G.V. course. R.G.V. is short for <em>route grand vitesse<\/em>, or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153high speed road\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/zwiftinsider.com\/route\/rgv\/\">ZwiftInsider.com<\/a><\/strong>. This was my first time on this course. The ride was hilly but not overly so with 437 feet of climbing spread along the 15.83 miles I biked. Since the bike ride went through France the roadside included many sunflower plants in bloom. My 20.6 mph average speed reflected to the high speed road description. I found myself watching the feet climbed more than the miles biked because I am a flatlander and climbing is a challenge. Today&#8217;s miles put my month total at 605 miles combining road and Zwift miles. I more than met my Zwift goal of 150 miles but I need 7 more miles to reach my road miles goal of 300. Two more days left and Saturday&#8217;s weather looks favorable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the start I managed to stay with the large front group for about 10 minutes before they rode away. Not long after that I found another group to ride with to keep the draft factor in play. Then I drifted between groups and riding with 3 or 4 other riders until the finish. Going up the hills I gained on some people and going down they moved ahead of me. As I approached the finish I stood at 579th out of 747 &#8220;nearby&#8221; Zwifters. At the same point the Marina Sprint Reverse standings board put me at 238th out of 343. Over in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/zwiftpower.com\/events.php?zid=1588214\">ZwiftPower.com<\/a><\/strong> of the 409 people with a profile I was in 372nd position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 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\/1-29-2021-ZwiftPower-Ride-Results-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"592\" data-attachment-id=\"55488\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/1-29-2021-zwiftpower-ride-results-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-29-2021-ZwiftPower-Ride-Results-1.jpg?fit=1621%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1621,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-29-2021-ZwiftPower-Ride-Results-2.jpg?resize=1536%2C1084&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-29-2021-ZwiftPower-Ride-Results-2.jpg?w=1674&amp;ssl=1 1674w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first place finisher took 15:39 to complete the course versus my 45:13. I was happy to stay with other Zwifters for most of the bike ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/4701202073\">Strava<\/a><\/strong> listed over 87 other people biking the same course so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 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\/1-29-2021-Strava-Zwift-Bike-Ride-Summary-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"55490\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/1-29-2021-strava-zwift-bike-ride-summary-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-29-2021-Strava-Zwift-Bike-Ride-Summary-1.jpg?fit=1058%2C950&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1058,950\" 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I signed up for the 12:03 PM event in Group C bike ride. The route moved to France on the R.G.V. course. R.G.V. is short for route grand vitesse, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/29\/tour-de-zwift-stage-6-frances-route-grand-vitesse-or-high-speed-road\/\"><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":[2560,5304,5467,5466,5429,5347],"class_list":["post-55491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","category-virtual-bike-ride","tag-bicycle","tag-blue-norcross-al","tag-france-r-g-v","tag-stage-6","tag-virtual-ride","tag-zwift"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-er1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55491","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=55491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55493,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55491\/revisions\/55493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}