“Danger Noodle” Route Details (Watopia)
Are you a snake charmer? Put yourself to the test on Danger Noodle! With no major climbs, the elevation here comes in bite-sized pieces.
Designed by Mark Brzezinski (ZSUNR), this route won the ZRL 2024/25 Round 3 design contest, earning it the right to be added to the game to host the final race of the round.
Are you a snake charmer? Put yourself to the test on Danger Noodle! With no major climbs, the elevation here comes in bite-sized pieces.
Designed by Mark Brzezinski (ZSUNR), this route won the ZRL 2024/25 Round 3 design contest, earning it the right to be added to the game to host the final race of the round.
Route Basics
Length: 32.1 km (19.9 miles)
Elevation: 413m (1,355‘)
+0.2km (0.1 miles) lead-in
Map: Watopia
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Rating: 17.7/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
lead-in + first lap
2 W/kg: 70 minutes
3 W/kg: 56 minutes
4 W/kg: 50 minutes
Start & Finish
Begins and ends at downtown Watopia arch.
Restriction: Event Only
Achievement Badge: 640 XP
Strava Segments
Bike Selection
This route’s climbs are very draftable, plus it has a flat finish, so aero rules the day!
Route Description
Here’s how Mark describes his route:
What do you get when you take messes of Esses and add in a ton of Titans? Danger Noodle! This route, with its snaking ups and downs and lefts and rights, provides plenty of opportunities for a breakaway to succeed.
The warm-up out of Downtown Watopia is the short, weaving rise and fall of The Esses. If you like them the first time, you get to see them again in reverse after you loop around the Italian Villas.
After zipping back through Downtown, the route takes a trip to Titans Grove where the real roller coaster ride begins. The wiggles and squiggles of the approach to the short Titans KOM Reverse will challenge riders to stay near the front. Or maybe that challenge is an opportunity for some team tactics?
The short, quick descent off the KOM is followed by more undulating serpentine roads, but Titans doesn’t stay in your rearview mirror for long because the route loops around the LAX roundabout and heads back to Titans Grove for a return trip up the other side of the KOM.
Roll, roll, roll some more, then a short climb and descent, followed by one last set of twisting humps and dips where you can decide how to attack the flat and fast Downtown Watopia finish.
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