{"id":63745,"date":"2023-10-30T17:51:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T22:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=63745"},"modified":"2023-10-30T17:51:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T22:51:06","slug":"first-ride-on-zwifts-watopia-the-big-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2023\/10\/30\/first-ride-on-zwifts-watopia-the-big-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"First Ride On Zwift&#8217;s Watopia The Big Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"First Ride On Zwift&#039;s Watopia The Big Ring 10\/30\/2023\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J8zZ2Dycc44?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>During the night the temperature dropped into the mid 40&#8217;s, below my outside riding threshold of 60 degrees. To add to the misery it rained lightly most of the morning. It was a good time to ride Zwift. Today was the first day to ride new Watopia routes and I chose The Big Ring route. The official distance is 30.4 miles and I rode a little farther at 30.71 miles. I didn&#8217;t try to ride at a fast pace so it took me 2:06:50. This was one of the routes in stage 5 of the Tour of Watopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did not livestream the ride but recorded it to test adding my voice comments to the video. The audio didn&#8217;t come through as loud as I wanted but it is there. It takes a long time to process a video this long so I will probably livestream Zwift ride to eliminate that. The weather probably will repeat tomorrow meaning I will ride Zwift. I will ride another Watopia route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Big Ring details from ZwiftInisder.com: As one of the longest of the eight routes released with Zwift\u2019s October 2023 southern coast expansion, \u201cThe Big Ring\u201d is a big ring that lets you stay in the big ring. It\u2019s the longest flat route in Watopia! I climbed 883 feet so using the term &#8220;flat&#8221; stretches the meaning for me. Notice the big peak in the map below. There are four sprints along the route. I was near the bottom of time on each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n,center><iframe style=\"width:98%;height:700px;\" src=\"https:\/\/veloviewer.com\/segments\/35696945\/embed2?units=i\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/10132212309\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1041\" height=\"908\" data-attachment-id=\"63744\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/10-30-2023-strava-ride-summary-zwift-watopia-big-ring\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/10-30-2023-Strava-Ride-Summary-Zwift-Watopia-Big-Ring.png?fit=1041%2C908&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1041,908\" 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=\"10-30-2023 Strava Ride Summary Zwift Watopia Big Ring\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;10-30-2023 Strava Ride Summary Zwift Watopia Big Ring&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;10-30-2023 Strava Ride Summary Zwift Watopia Big Ring&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/10-30-2023-Strava-Ride-Summary-Zwift-Watopia-Big-Ring.png?fit=516%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/10-30-2023-Strava-Ride-Summary-Zwift-Watopia-Big-Ring.png?fit=688%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/10-30-2023-Strava-Ride-Summary-Zwift-Watopia-Big-Ring.png?resize=1041%2C908&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"10-30-2023 Strava Ride Summary Zwift Watopia Big Ring\" class=\"wp-image-63744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/10-30-2023-Strava-Ride-Summary-Zwift-Watopia-Big-Ring.png?w=1041&amp;ssl=1 1041w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/10-30-2023-Strava-Ride-Summary-Zwift-Watopia-Big-Ring.png?resize=516%2C450&amp;ssl=1 516w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/10-30-2023-Strava-Ride-Summary-Zwift-Watopia-Big-Ring.png?resize=688%2C600&amp;ssl=1 688w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/10-30-2023-Strava-Ride-Summary-Zwift-Watopia-Big-Ring.png?resize=550%2C480&amp;ssl=1 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">10-30-2023 Strava Ride Summary Zwift Watopia Big Ring<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the night the temperature dropped into the mid 40&#8217;s, below my outside riding threshold of 60 degrees. To add to the misery it rained lightly most of the morning. It was a good time to ride Zwift. Today was <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2023\/10\/30\/first-ride-on-zwifts-watopia-the-big-ring\/\"><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":[5304,5653,5429,5400,5347],"class_list":["post-63745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-bike-ride","tag-blue-norcross-al","tag-the-bing-ring","tag-virtual-ride","tag-watopia","tag-zwift"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-gA9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63745","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=63745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63747,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63745\/revisions\/63747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}