“Coll d’Ordino” Details (Zwift Climb Portal)

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Coll d’Ordino is a Pyrenean ascent in Andorra which can be climbed from two directions: Ordino in the west, or Canillo in the east. As one of the few through roads in Andorra, you will be hard-pressed to ride there without taking on this climb from one side or the other!

Zwift’s version is from the Canillo side and was added to the Climb Portal in August 2023 to celebrate its inclusion in the 2023 Vuelta a España. There Coll d’Ordino featured in stage 3 as the big climb just before a final uphill finish.

Here’s an IRL segment that is close to Zwift’s, although it ends a bit early:

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Vlad the Impailer
Vlad the Impailer
2 years ago

Nice. New climbs, keep them coming. 21 Days of Spanish racing, so at least 3 or 4 more climbs. 👍👍

Adam Janoušek
Adam Janoušek
2 years ago

If they do not bring Altu de l’Angliru I’ll be seriously disappointed.

anderfo
anderfo
2 years ago
Reply to  Adam Janoušek

I guess you are still disappointed,then 😉

Adam Janoušek
Adam Janoušek
2 years ago
Reply to  anderfo

A little bit yeah.

Paul Jones
Paul Jones
2 years ago

Really like this concept keep them coming would like to see more than just one portal climb on the schedule thou

GMcK
GMcK
2 years ago
Reply to  Paul Jones

Agreed. More rotation and/or more choices will be welcome. The format has grown on me, and I enjoy these climbs.

Warren
Warren
2 years ago
Reply to  Paul Jones

Agreed, this needs a new climb every 4-5 days. Changing every two weeks is very frustrating

Massi
Massi
2 years ago
Reply to  Paul Jones

Totally agree, no reason you can’t have one climb portal access point in every active world to give a few options.

Ian
Ian
2 years ago

They nead to add a way of choosing the climb, I finished a workout and wanted to do a short climb afterwards, hoping for Crow Road, when I got to the climb portal I found Bealech ne Ba, so no climb portal for me. The bare minimum should be a hard climb and an easy one

Emilio Lence
Emilio Lence
2 years ago

We have now 12 climbs in the portal. If they do not add any more, with a 2 week rotation it means that we will have to wait 22 weeks (around 5 months) to see the same climb again. It would be nice to have more choices, maybe 3: a short, a medium and a long climb. An change them maybe every week or so.
And probably they will add more climbs, maybe some climbs from Iitaly next month, australia when the Tour down under at nexte year, etc.

Ditlev
Ditlev
2 years ago

Would be great to have several climbs to choose from, current scheduling is odd.

Andy
Andy
2 years ago
Reply to  Ditlev

Get Fulgaz. No end of climbs there.

MATHEW M ROSE
MATHEW M ROSE
2 years ago

Just did Bealech ne Ba for the fourteenth time. It’s a fine 30-ish minutes, but now the two climbs that follow in the rotation are also similar in duration, if not quite as steep. Clearly Zwift knows that we’re all waiting on the Angliru during the Vuelta like we’d wait on the Stelvio during the Giro . . . Just give me a choice between a 30 minute ride and an hour-plus epic climb. I promise I won’t complain if there’s only a few people on the day’s long climb. Add variety and we’ll shut up.

Andreas
Andreas
2 years ago

Wolf in sheep’s clothing this one. Averages hide the fact that there is pain to be had for those so inclined =)

Speed Brophy
Speed Brophy
2 years ago

What would really be more impressive if we start seeing so the Asian Hill Climbs. Mt Fuji has a variety of routes. The Otari park climbs like Tsugaike Nature Park Course. Taiwan has a huge number of cat. 2 and above including TaiwanKOM – the Asian 4 horseman only 3X more vertical. Korea’s Soerak Granfondo. Just to name a few

Gary
Gary
2 years ago

Zwift indicates this to be a Category 2 climb. But it lists it as a Category 1 climb here.

Gary
Gary
2 years ago
Reply to  Eric Schlange

Sorry, to clarify: this article lists the climb as Category 1st, while Strava lists the Watopia and France climb segment climbs as Category 2.

Guillaume
Guillaume
2 years ago

Hello,

Regarding time estimates, it would be nice to have intermediates power to weight ratio to help better estimate our climb time. Whereas 3w/kg shall be OK for Any fit rider, you don’t see much ppl at 4w/kg on most climbs. As the relation between w/kg and time is nothing but linear, could you add estimates for 3.5 and 4.5?
Thanks

BikePower
BikePower
2 years ago
Reply to  Guillaume

Just happened to do the climb today at 3.5 w/kg and my time was 32 minutes. Unfortunately I won’t be able to help you out with a time for 4.5 w/kg 🥵😉

Karai
Karai
2 years ago

Is this pair of ascent and descent at the top suitable for everesting compared to the one in Epic? Any thoughts?

zwift.rz9z@ncf.ca
9 months ago

I am over 10.5 km and screen says I’ve gone 17%. What is going on? My schedule is for shorter ride today so I just quit

Pat b
9 months ago

I invetigated further. This climb Coll d’Ordino was listed as climb of the week this week, I started and it went on FOREVER. After writing the above email, I found that Zwift software had sent me to a different climb that was much longer as I experienced. I only had limited time and effort in my training plan so … I quit the climb.