A perfect day to ride the Tour de Zwift Stage 7 Group Ride. Outside the temperature dropped from 53 to 45 and light rain fell. In Zwift the Watopia Jungle Circuit was hot and dusty. Starting at 12:02 PM the course was 13.3 miles long and 574 feet of climbing according to the description. I actually rode 13.46 miles and climbed 571 feet, but who’s nitpicking the details. The meanest climb was the swayback suspension bridge which we rode up twice just to make a point.

I rode my Cannondale Evo road bike but many rode mountain bikes. I almost switched to the MTB until I looked at the weight and aero stars. The Cannondale Evo was better in each category. Maybe I will spend some “Drops” on a better MTB?

From Zwiftinsider.com the course description, “Watopia’s “Jungle Circuit” was added with the Mayan jungle expansion in late October 2017. This is a lollipop route, meaning you start with a lead-in then remain on the circuit portion until your legs fall off.” Today we took two laps after the lead-in which I didn’t know about until reading the Zwiftinsider. com description. I thought the two laps were 6.65 miles each.

Looking at the group ride results at Zwiftpower.com 316 cyclists show up with me at 301. During the ride I saw the nearby Zwifters count around 643 to 654. Not everyone has a Zwiftpower profile.