Opening the Zwift companion app to start today’s ride there were 21,434 other Zwifters online. I set up the meetup to begin at 11:40 AM riding in France on the Casse – Pattes route. I wanted to ride more miles than one lap so I chose 20.5 miles. The only other time I rode this route was February 8th, 2022 but it was 15.1 miles. Today I rode 20.7 miles and climbed 574 feet on two KOM’s. In February the riding time was 1:00:24 and today I rode more than 5 miles farther in 1:10:09. A big difference in my average speed, 17.7 mph today versus 15.0 in February.

Weather outside while I rode: 52 degrees, partly cloudy, wind from the north at 4 mph. The reason I rode indoors on the Wahoo Kickr Core smart trainer.

After finishing the ride there were 20,134 Zwifters remaining.

Zwiftinsider.com: French cyclists use the term “casse-pattes” (literally “leg-breaking”) to refer to particularly difficult parts of a ride, or roads that awkwardly change gradient and break a cyclist’s rhythm. Released with Zwift’s France map for the first-ever Virtual Tour de France, the Casse-Pattes route covers the large outer loop of the map in a clockwise direction. The first 12km is pan-flat with two timed sprint segments, but then that rhythm is broken up in the back half by two timed KOM climbs.

Stava recorded these results: PR on Petit KOM (11:24), PR on Start Pens Lead-In to Marina Sprint Banner (1:32), PR on Casse-Pattes (49:00), and 2nd fastest time on Start Pens Lead-In to Marina Sprint Banner (1:35).