To keep my biking streak going I rode Zwift today because it was 50 degrees outside. The streak spans from February 17th to today. Looking at the events in Zwift I didn’t see any that interested me so I created a meetup. I chose the Watopia Road Ruins route which I previously rode on April 4th, 2020. That day was about the same temperature outside but raining. No rain today, plenty of sunshine but too cold. Starting at 12 PM the ride went 19.06 miles with 906 feet of climbing. It took 1:21:40 to complete, faster than the April 4th ride at 18.65 miles. The climbing went up two mountains (at least to me) and then some rolling hills. One of the climbs hit 12% briefly. ZwiftInsider.com described the route “Watopia’s “Road to Ruins” was added with the Mayan jungle expansion in late October 2017. It begins just like the Jungle Circuit, but takes you to the Volcano Flat and back home to the start/finish banner instead of leaving you riding jungle laps.” Route basics: Length: 29.6 km (18.4 miles), Elevation: 268 m (879‘), Lead-In: 0.5 km (0.3 miles). apparently meetup ride distances differ because of the starting position is not in the pen. The route didn’t seem to have long downhill sections instead flat sections to 1% inclines didn’t give much time to recover. My legs did well though. The Wahoo Kickr Snap followed the commands to add resistance though at first I thought it wasn’t doing that. But the first hill changed my mind.

Today’s ride improved on the previous ride with a 14.1 average speed, higher average power, and heart rate.

I rode the Specialized S-Works road bike with road wheels and a pink/blue kit.

Since it was a meetup other riders appeared on the roads but not connected to the meetup. Some times I rode with others but mostly by myself.

The livestream ended around 13 minutes into the ride because I lost the internet connection to YouTube long enough to stop streaming. The video above I recorded when that happened.

Two personal records in Strava: PR on Road to Ruins (1:19:38) and PR on Epic KOM Reverse – Start to Jungle Intersection (6:40).