During the night the temperature dropped into the mid 40’s, below my outside riding threshold of 60 degrees. To add to the misery it rained lightly most of the morning. It was a good time to ride Zwift. Today was the first day to ride new Watopia routes and I chose The Big Ring route. The official distance is 30.4 miles and I rode a little farther at 30.71 miles. I didn’t try to ride at a fast pace so it took me 2:06:50. This was one of the routes in stage 5 of the Tour of Watopia.

I did not livestream the ride but recorded it to test adding my voice comments to the video. The audio didn’t come through as loud as I wanted but it is there. It takes a long time to process a video this long so I will probably livestream Zwift ride to eliminate that. The weather probably will repeat tomorrow meaning I will ride Zwift. I will ride another Watopia route.

The Big Ring details from ZwiftInisder.com: As one of the longest of the eight routes released with Zwift’s October 2023 southern coast expansion, “The Big Ring” is a big ring that lets you stay in the big ring. It’s the longest flat route in Watopia! I climbed 883 feet so using the term “flat” stretches the meaning for me. Notice the big peak in the map below. There are four sprints along the route. I was near the bottom of time on each.