I ended January biking indoors on Zwift. I was on a bike ride every day in January. Today I chose the Watopia Triple Flat Loops route for the distance and the limited climbing. No group event, just a free ride but not alone. Almost 16,000 fellow Zwifters in Watopia. Outside the “cold” temperature of 43, cloudy and wind from the north at 12 mph ruled out the road ride. The last time I rode this route was last year on October 24, 2022. Overall I rode the Triple Flat Loops 5 times. Today I rode 21.22 miles and climbed 515 feet. For some reason SportTracks shows the elevation gain for the other 4 rides at 324-326 feet but Strava reports 515 feet.

The Tour de Zwift published the new Scotland routes for stage 8. I forgot about that stage and thought the TdZ finished after 7. I look forward to riding in Scotland.

ZwiftInsider.com’s route basics shows a 1.5 mile lead-in and the route at 21.1 miles. On the free ride the lead-in must not happen. As I started the ride the next 4.67 miles was mostly flat. I think I gained 3 feet in the first 1.7 miles. At that point the first climb went up about 54 feet over .5 mile and then back down. The descent and flat lasted 2.45 miles. After that the next 7.54 miles was up and down topping out before the descent and valley of 3.02 miles. From there to the finish it was uphill gaining a whopping 50 feet in 2.85 miles. My “pace partner” showed up one time on the final sprint and I beat him to the line by a few seconds. ZwiftInsidr.com shows three different sprint points.

Zwift recorded two new PR’s on the same sprint while Strava didn’t. Strava did report this one, 2nd fastest time on Rebel Route: Triple Flat Loops (1:10:18).

January biking was the most miles rode since I’ve kept GPS records. This graph from Strava using the Stravini app shows January miles from 2011 through 2023. Red in the right column is how many miles that year is less than 2023.

Below SportTracks shows the activity for January. I rode 356 road miles (my goal was 300) and 341 Zwift miles. 11 road rides and 20 Zwift rides.