{"id":64608,"date":"2024-02-12T16:21:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T22:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=64608"},"modified":"2024-02-12T16:21:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T22:21:48","slug":"brutal-route-16-gradients-stage-6-tour-de-zwift-watopia-mountain-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2024\/02\/12\/brutal-route-16-gradients-stage-6-tour-de-zwift-watopia-mountain-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Brutal Route, 16% Gradients: Stage 6 Tour de Zwift Watopia Mountain 8"},"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=\"Stage 6 Tour de Zwift Watopia Mountain 8 Route 2\/12\/2024\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5QqoaU7woYU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a &#8220;make up&#8221; ride since I missed the original day. There will be a whole lot suffering as I climb 2271 feet over t20.3 miles. Maybe the virtual shifting gears will go low enough that I can &#8220;tractor&#8221; my Blue Norcross up and over the reverse Epic KOM and the radio tower climb. Group B ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A brutal route maybe to offset some of the easier stages. A long slow climb up to the radio tower. Gradients hit 16% but I kept pedaling away. My legs held up as I used the virtual shifting to ease the effort. I was out of the saddle numerous times. Strava shows I&#8217;ve done the Radio Tower climb segment 3 times dating back to December 18th, 2019, which was my best time. This was my second ride on the Strava <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/segments\/16587068\">Mountain 8 Forward from Start Pier<\/a> segment. The first time was also on December 18th, 2019. Strava results from today: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2nd fastest time<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/10749574409\/segments\/3192235117072232124\">Mountain 8 Forward from Start Pier<\/a>\u00a0(1:48:55)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>3rd fastest time<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/10749574409\/segments\/3192235117073732284\">Radio Tower Climb<\/a>\u00a0(14:26)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/10749574409\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1048\" height=\"1240\" data-attachment-id=\"64606\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2-12-2024-strava-ride-map-tour-de-zwift-watopia-mountain-8\/\" 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There will be a whole lot suffering as I climb 2271 feet over t20.3 miles. Maybe the virtual shifting gears will go low enough that I can &#8220;tractor&#8221; <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2024\/02\/12\/brutal-route-16-gradients-stage-6-tour-de-zwift-watopia-mountain-8\/\"><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":[5304,5676,5466,5377,5429,5400,5347],"class_list":["post-64608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-bike-ride","tag-blue-norcross-al","tag-mountain-8","tag-stage-6","tag-tour-de-zwift","tag-virtual-ride","tag-watopia","tag-zwift"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-gO4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64608","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=64608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64609,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64608\/revisions\/64609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}