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    Rebel Route: Down Up Down

    Eric Schlange
    By Eric Schlange
    August 22, 2020
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    Our newest Rebel Route comes from Zwifter Craig Devonshire, who suggested a route planned along the same theme as the infamous Badwater Ultramarathon. This race travels 135 miles from the lowest point in North America (Death Valley) to the highest point in the continental US (Mount Whitney).

    For our Zwifty version, we travel from the lowest point on Watopia (Ocean Boulevard, -5m elevation), to the highest point (Alpe du Zwift, 1047m elevation) then back again. Who will be the first to complete the route in under 90 minutes?

    About Rebel Routes

    “Rebel Routes” are Zwift rides which are not available on Zwift’s routes list, thus requiring manual navigation.

    See all rebel routes >

    The reward for your rebel ride? Exploring a new route, knowing you’ve gone where few Zwifters have gone before. And a Strava segment rank in the tens or hundreds instead of the thousands! They are included as a separate category on our Veloviewer Route Hunter leaderboard.

    Route Description

    Before we begin, please note that since we summit the Alpe on this route, you must be a level 6 Zwifter or higher to ride it.

    Begin in downtown Watopia by selecting the “Flat Route”. Turn left onto Ocean Boulevard, which will take us underwater to the lowest elevation on Watopia. Enjoy the flat roads while you can – they won’t last long.

    • Downtown Watopia start/finish banner
    • The lowest elevation in Watopia – below sea level!
    • Turn left at the windmills

    After you climb out of the tunnel, turn left at the windmills to head over the dock and up the snaking climb toward the Epic KOM and Jungle. The climbing is beginning, but this is just the start! Turn right at the next fork toward the Jungle, then another right once you’re on the Jungle dirt to being the circuit in a counter-clockwise direction.

    Another right finds us at the foot of Alpe du Zwift – time to climb! Hammer you way up those 21 turns, take a breather as you ride the ring road at the summit, then descend and retrace your path home!

    • Time to climb…
    • Enjoy your descent!

    The route ends at the main downtown Watopia start/finish banner.

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    Getting Started + Lead-In

    Start by choosing Watopia’s Flat Route. This will take you in the right direction for the first portion of the ride.

    Turn by Turn

    Here are the turns you’ll need to make to successfully complete Down Up Down. Start by choosing the Flat Route route, or any route that begins in downtown Watopia heading east. The official Strava segment begins at the downtown start/finish banner.

    1. Left to Ocean Blvd
    2. Straight to Ocean Blvd
    3. Straight to Italian Villas
    4. Left to Jungle/Epic KOM
    5. Right to Jungle/Alpe
    6. Right to Jungle/Alpe
    7. Straight (Right) to Mayan Loop
    8. Right to Alpe du Zwift
    9. Left to Mayan Loop Rev
    10. Straight (Left) to Mayan Loop Rev
    11. Left to Epic KOM
    12. Left to Italian Village
    13. Right to Sequoia Circle
    14. Straight to Downtown
    15. Straight to Downtown
    16. Right to Downtown

    Route details:
    Distance: 49.35km (30.7 miles)
    Elevation Gain: 1257m (4,124′)
    Strava Segment

    Rebel Route Suggestions

    Got an idea for a great rebel route? Share it below and maybe we’ll publish a post about it!

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      samcooke
      samcooke(@samcooke)
      2 years ago

      Like the look of this one, going to use if for the next Alpe attempt!
      Another Rebel Route Idea:
      Always frustrating there is not a ‘short’ mountain loop (like Hilly Loop), without the killer Bonus Climb 😉
      Similar to Mountain Route, a short lead in from downtown, the ‘loop’ starts at Sequoia Circle, where you can choose to summit the Epic climb either forwards or backwards, looping back to Sequoia Circle for another lap if you so please!

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      Daniel Pearson
      Daniel Pearson(@dpearson)
      2 years ago

      Thanks for putting this up on the VeloViewer boards before here. Getting it done before the blog post made me feel like a *true* Zwift Insider!

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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      2 years ago
      Reply to  Daniel Pearson

      Absolutely. Chapeau!

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      Jerry Weiss
      Jerry Weiss(@jerrylweiss)
      2 years ago

      Astoria Reverse. https://www.strava.com/segments/26379125?filter=my_results

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      anderfo
      anderfo
      2 years ago

      Looking at the elevation profile this looks more like “UP DOWN” than “DOWN UP DOWN” to me 🙂

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      James Metcalfe
      James Metcalfe
      1 year ago
      Reply to  anderfo

      Indeed, it should be called “up down”, or “bottom top bottom”

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      Kerry Davies
      Kerry Davies
      2 years ago

      I did this one today – there are a couple of extra turns not listed above. I didn’t note down exactly what it was on the way out, but I’ve assumed what it was on the basis of the options on the way back. Regardless, both were default/automatic turns, I didn’t need to override with a manual turn.

      6.1 – Straight to Mayan Loop
      8.1 – Straight to Mayan Loop Reverse

      The other option was Mayan Bridge.

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Kerry Davies

      Thanks, fixed today!

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      James Metcalfe
      James Metcalfe
      1 year ago

      I guess I shouldn’t have taken “we travel from the lowest point on Watopia (Ocean Boulevard, -5m elevation), to the highest point (Alpe du Zwift, 1047m elevation) then back again” so literally, the laptop battery was dying and as I had left the undersea tunnel I assumed I had passed the lowest point and therefore completed the route and finished my ride. Not so alas.

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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      1 year ago

      Updated the turns list today!

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