{"id":60930,"date":"2022-12-27T15:47:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T21:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=60930"},"modified":"2022-12-27T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T21:50:09","slug":"spin-downs-made-a-difference-zwift-watopia-figure-8-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/27\/spin-downs-made-a-difference-zwift-watopia-figure-8-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Spin Downs Made A Difference. Zwift Watopia Figure 8 Hills"},"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=\"Spin Downs Made A Difference. Zwift Watopia Figure 8 Hills 12\/27\/2022\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/daaF3bqNUEE?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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did not check Zwift upcoming events for today&#8217;s ride. I looked at Zwiftinsider.com for a route with less than 1000 feet of climbing. I chose the Watopia Figure 8 route with 18.7 miles and 768 feet of climbing. The last time I rode this route was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sporttracks.mobi\/activity\/29319630\">March 11th, 2022<\/a><\/strong> as part of the Tour of Watopia Stage 1. Today was a free ride, just passing Zwifters. There were over 13,000 people online when I opened the companion app to get ready to ride. According to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/zwiftinsider.com\/route\/figure-8\/\">ZwiftInisder.com<\/a><\/strong> this route is &#8220;Watopia\u2019s\u00a0\u201cFigure 8\u201d route covers the entire\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/zwiftinsider.com\/hilly-route\/\">hilly<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/zwiftinsider.com\/flat-route\/\">flat<\/a>\u00a0routes\u00a0<em>in both directions<\/em>.\u00a0If you\u2019re looking for a ride around an hour long that includes some short climbs and a nice mix of flats and rollers, this is a solid choice.&#8221; I&#8217;m beginning to add some extra climbing feet to routes because I ride more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I rode 18.82 miles and climbed 833 feet. Not a big difference in the climbing but when I am watching the feet add up it gives a measure of how much climbing is left. I sped up for 1 sprint and tried to on a KOM but it didn&#8217;t make much difference on the KOM. No falling bears along the road but Christmas tree lights and a flying sled were spotted. Music for the ride: SiriusXM Seventies on 7. Out side the weather was fair with 6 mph wind from the west and 55 degrees. Tomorrow it may be in the 70&#8217;s and I will be on the road. Looking at the map I&#8217;m not sure where the Figure 8 is. Two big climbs and a bunch of smaller ones made my legs work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spin downs from yesterday changed the Wahoo Kickr Core to mimic the climbs and descents more realistically. I wasn&#8217;t pedaling as hard on the flats but the uphills were harder. Downhills I pedaled lightly and maintained the speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It wasn&#8217;t all about Zwift today. This morning I took the Lynskey Helix bike to Trek Bike Kingwood. They replaced the SRAM Rival crankset with a new SRAM Rival Quarq power meter crankset. I found them on sale and couldn&#8217;t resist. I will change from the Favero Assiomo Uno power meter pedals to Shimano Ultegra pedals. I prefer the clips on the Ultegra pedals. Next up the Cervelo Caledonia gets the same change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/8299576445\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"488\" data-attachment-id=\"60927\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/12-27-2022-strava-matched-rides-watopia-figure-8\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/12-27-2022-Strava-Matched-Rides-Watopia-Figure-8.jpg?fit=1040%2C634&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1040,634\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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I looked at Zwiftinsider.com for a route with less than 1000 feet of climbing. I chose the Watopia Figure 8 route with 18.7 miles and 768 feet of climbing. The <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/27\/spin-downs-made-a-difference-zwift-watopia-figure-8-hills\/\"><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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5352],"tags":[5304,5564,5429,5400,5347],"class_list":["post-60930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-bike-ride","tag-blue-norcross-al","tag-figure-8","tag-virtual-ride","tag-watopia","tag-zwift"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-fQK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60930","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=60930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60933,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60930\/revisions\/60933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}