“Big Loop” Route Details (Watopia)
Watopia’s “Big Loop” was added with the Mayan jungle expansion in late October 2017. It includes the Epic KOM, Mayan jungle roads, and a portion of the Volcano Flat route.
Watopia’s “Big Loop” was added with the Mayan jungle expansion in late October 2017. It includes the Epic KOM, Mayan jungle roads, and a portion of the Volcano Flat route.
Route Basics
Length: 42.1 km (26.2 miles)
Elevation: 661m (2,169′)
+0.5km (0.3 miles) lead-in with 1m (3′) elevation
Map: Watopia
ZIMetrics
Rating: 24.8/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
lead-in + first lap
4 W/kg: 69 minutes
3 W/kg: 77 minutes
2 W/kg: 98 minutes
Start & Finish
Begins and ends at the downtown Watopia start/finish.
Format: Loop
Restriction: Level 5+
Ride Achievement Badge: 840 XP
Run Achievement Badge: none
Leaderboard Segments |
| Epic KOM (9.5km, 3.9%) |
Strava Segments
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Route Description
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We begin with a short, flat lead-in to the route’s biggest climb: the Epic KOM. At 9.4km long and 3.9% average grade, this climb will split any race apart.
Enjoy the descent after the KOM banner–it’s a great time to supertuck. Then hang a left toward the Jungle Circuit. Savvy racers might consider swapping bikes once they hit the dirt since a mountain bike is much faster than a road bike on the Jungle Circuit. But you’ll want to practice that swapping, because you’ll need to change back to the road bike after the loop through the Jungle, and those are precious seconds lost as you fumble to change bikes!
After climbing out of the Jungle you’ll descend towards Watopia, going through the fishing village then Italian Villas before heading around the volcano and into downtown Watopia for the finish.
Sure enjoy the convenience of checking into facts and figures on the Insider page! Thanks Eric…
Hi, I think that the velo viewer map is wrong. It includes the sandy segment before 14km which isn’t on the big loop.
Shame! I love checking the data during a ride!
Did the course yesterday. It showed “route completed” and I got the badge, but when I looked on Zwift I have not gotten it. The same has happened with “the highline” twice. Very frustrating.
Me too.
As per Beth’s comment below, the veloviewer data is for Bigger Loop, not big loop
Completed this route yesterday and no badge, very frustrating. I can see this has happened to others as well but still nothing seems to be done about it.
I’m getting closer to get most of the routes done, but I keep completing these ones in which no credit is given in the leaderboard. Just completed this route but it’s not showing up in the leaderboard under “Big Loop Forward”. The Strava route called “Big Loop (Zwift Insider verified)”
That’s odd… should be matching. I see recent Zwift rides matching the segment (https://www.strava.com/segments/16402683). Can you share your Strava activity link here?
I rode the big loop too and thought I went far enough. I was 4 miles short and I couldn’t find anything about how far pass the ride you had to go. It was actually 32.33 + miles. Grrr. I tried to find out if I just missed it or what. So frustrating!
I got confused when I came back to the jungle route and there was no volcano. and I was pass the mileage stated for the route.
Great job with this site.
Only one correction. Both maps here are incorrect. Got a surprise yesterday doing it because you have to do the antennas after the epic kom
Big loop is wrong the finish is not at 42.6 km but ??? it goes again up hill epic kom.
Please check the data.
Can we get a ZwiftInsider Strava segment for Big Loop events? For example Tour of Watopia Stage 4 Longer is Big Loop but there is no segment for it as it has a different start location
Done! https://www.strava.com/segments/28020521?filter=overall
Thank you Eric
For some reason, the altitude profile on the Big Loop Strava segment is all over the place. For example, the pier start is at 200m.
Just completed this route but it’s not showing up in the leaderboard under “Big Loop Forward”. The Strava route called “Big Loop (Zwift Insider verified)”
as mentioned these maps show tempis flats on this route but “Big Loop” goes straight from the downtown start to the KOM
I have the route achievement badge for this one in zwift but no segment time in the route hunter does zwift insider segment match the route or is there some manual navigation required overlap of spawn points or different finish? Nov 2018
any chance the VeloViewer big loop segment can be looked at? Whenever I ride this on Zwift I get the Big loop from banner segment but can never get the big loop (Zwift insider) one. Very frustrating
Way too much dirt on this one!
Really wish the official segments would start where this map shows the route starting. It’s frustrating that events can’t be used to get segments times for veloviewer on some of these routes, especially the longer ones. Yeah, ok, so the segment wouldn’t actually be a completely full loop but it’s such a small fragment that would have to be taken out that it would make virtually no difference and both camps (free-riders and those who prefer events) would be happy and the 100s of folks who utilized Tour of Watopia to achieve some of these tougher route badges wouldn’t be left out in the cold.