{"id":55790,"date":"2021-03-05T15:16:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T21:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=55790"},"modified":"2021-03-05T15:17:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T21:17:01","slug":"zwifting-in-watopia-on-the-dust-in-the-wind-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/03\/05\/zwifting-in-watopia-on-the-dust-in-the-wind-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Zwifting in Watopia on the Dust In The Wind Course"},"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=\"Zwifting in Watopia on the Dust In The Wind Course\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R_aw69IxQQU?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>Today I had a smaller time window for a bike ride. I wanted to leave before 11 AM but the temperature wasn&#8217;t cooperating. I decided to ride in Zwift but not as part of an event. Looking at the Watopia routes I scrolled through the list. Since I couldn&#8217;t ride outside I wanted to try riding the distance I planned. I landed on the <strong>Dust In The Wind<\/strong> route. The brief description fit, 32.2 miles with 1909 feet of climbing. Well the climbing part wasn&#8217;t in my outside ride but I have done that much climbing in Zwift before but never that many miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/zwiftinsider.com\/route\/dust-in-the-wind\/\">ZwiftInsider.com<\/a><\/strong> provides this route information: One of five routes rolled out with <a href=\"https:\/\/zwiftinsider.com\/titans-grove-released\/\">Zwift\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Titans Grove expansion<\/a>, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dust In the Wind\u00e2\u20ac\u009d covers Titans Grove <em>twice<\/em>, as well as Fuego Flats, part of Ocean Boulevard, and a Mayan Jungle out and back. Along the way you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll encounter a fair amount of virtual dirt\/gravel road, so you might consider using a <a href=\"https:\/\/zwiftinsider.com\/gravel-bike-results\/\">gravel bike<\/a> so you can move to the front of the pack and make everyone else eat your dust! I think I rode the route components but not in this order or distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I watched the feet climbed and did some math spreading the 1909 feet over 32.2 miles but it didn&#8217;t break out like that. By 16.1 miles I was over 1148 feet which was good because I was tired of climbing. This meant slightly less in the remaining 16.1 miles. At 27.2 miles I had climbed 1872 which meant the last 5 miles was essentially flat, Fuego Flat actually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before I switched my sensors from Bluetooth to ANT+ because they disconnected. I noticed the Wahoo Snap trainer was not providing resistance. Going to the pairing menu it was disconnected, pairing to ANT+ got it working though I enjoyed climbing a small hill without resistance. Later during the ride there were 3 or 4 brief disconnects. I spotted those along the bottom of the Zwift screen when the red line dipped to the edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not riding in an event removes pressure but other Zwifters are on the route and sometimes I got in a group for drafting purposes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This ride puts a 200 mile week in the picture. I am at 149.84 miles (road + Zwift) and 2 potential bike ride days left. Month to date totals the same. My total goal for March, 675 miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 silver medals from Strava, both contain climbing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/4896013250\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1034\" data-attachment-id=\"55789\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/3-5-2021-strava-zwift-bike-ride-summary\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3-5-2021-Strava-Zwift-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?fit=1050%2C1034&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1050,1034\" 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=\"3-5-2021 Strava Zwift Bike Ride Summary\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;3-5-2021 Strava Zwift Bike Ride Summary&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3-5-2021-Strava-Zwift-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?fit=457%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3-5-2021-Strava-Zwift-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?fit=609%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3-5-2021-Strava-Zwift-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=1050%2C1034&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"3-5-2021 Strava Zwift Bike Ride Summary\" class=\"wp-image-55789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3-5-2021-Strava-Zwift-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?w=1050&amp;ssl=1 1050w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3-5-2021-Strava-Zwift-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=457%2C450&amp;ssl=1 457w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3-5-2021-Strava-Zwift-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=609%2C600&amp;ssl=1 609w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3-5-2021-Strava-Zwift-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=487%2C480&amp;ssl=1 487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had a smaller time window for a bike ride. I wanted to leave before 11 AM but the temperature wasn&#8217;t cooperating. I decided to ride in Zwift but not as part of an event. Looking at the Watopia <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/03\/05\/zwifting-in-watopia-on-the-dust-in-the-wind-course\/\"><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":[2560,212,4719,5304,5484,5429,5400,5347],"class_list":["post-55790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","category-virtual-bike-ride","tag-bicycle","tag-bicycling","tag-biking","tag-blue-norcross-al","tag-dust-in-the-wind","tag-virtual-ride","tag-watopia","tag-zwift"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-evQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55790","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=55790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55791,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55790\/revisions\/55791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}