One of Makuri Islands’ longest routes, Country to Coastal takes you on a tour of Yumezi’s castle area and farmlands as well as Urukazi’s wild coastline. This is the only existing route which takes you down the slot canyon connector road… then back up that same road!
One of Makuri Islands’ longest routes, Country to Coastal takes you on a tour of Yumezi’s castle area and farmlands as well as Urukazi’s wild coastline. This is the only existing route which takes you down the slot canyon connector road… then back up that same road!
Route Basics
Length: 33.4 km (20.8 miles)
Elevation: 274 m (899‘)
Lead-In: 0.13 km (0.1 miles)
Map: Makuri Islands
Start & Finish
Starts and ends at a virtual banner just uphill from Yumezi's castle start pens.
Achievement Badge: 665 XP
Strava Segments
Country to Coastal
Festival Harbor Climb CCW
Connector Canyon Climb
Bike Selection
While there are decisive climbs on this route, they are short and not steep, so your most aero bike will be your best performer. See Fastest Bike Frames and Wheels at Each Zwift Level >
Route Description
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This route starts just like Makuri 40, but turns right on the dirt road to Neokyo Tunnel, taking you down the connector canyon road instead of toward Neokyo. This twisty descent isn’t steep, but the scenery is eye-popping as you fly past!
Once you reach Urukazi you’ll turn right toward Mech Isle to make a counter-clockwise loop of the island complex. First you’ll hit Mech Isle, taking a right at the fork so you avoid the main climb and stay on the pavement. Take the bridge across to Festival Harbor and you’ll hit the main climb of this route, which twists its way up to the Shisa Sprint.
Catch your breath at the top, take in the beautiful view to your left, then descend back to the boardwalk for a quick ride along the beach and through Mangrove Maze and the Tidepool Sprint before jumping back onto the connector canyon ride to climb up and out to Yumezi’s countryside.
Once you’re back in Yumezi it’s a flat lead-in to the final ~700m of the route, which is all uphill. If you’re in a race, this is where you empty the tank!
What bike time would you recommended?
Type not time!
I’m guessing something aero, mostly tarmac or similar and not very steep climbs
Negative ghostrider. While Tarmac would be perfect IRL on this course, it is not fast in ZWIFT. Best bike does depend somewhat on what your specific strengths are, this course begs for something aero. No sustained sharp climbs = aero.
The wall in fist few meters is deadly 😉
I don’t think they should backtrack into that canyon reverse – bring it back into Neokyo and liven it up I say – https://tinyurl.com/Country-to-Coastal-edited
Can’t wait to get out of this surgical boot (part of my 24/7 apparel since October 7) and try the new routes! Probably won’t actually happen for me until January. Uggh. 😒
Hey Eric, have you considered doing an article listing bike recommendation/s for all the routes? I guess very similar to the bike/wheel performance ones. You could break it down into worlds and have hyperlinks to the main articles from there?
nothing like a savage double digit climb at the start & end of the course ;D
Hi!
Is robopacer available if you create a meetup?
Ride on!
Pär from Sweden
Just discovered all that zwift insider offers. so helpful to visualize course. Made my day!
I’ve just finished a race on this course, I did it on a gravel bike as a lot of the decisive points are on the compact sand surface…turns out this surface is the same as Tarmac, so I took an absolute beating in the last 8k having held on for 26k. I wish I knew this before the race!!
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1674572111
Doing a meet up on this course does not reflect the map or info listed! I did two laps of yumezi first and at 23km was on the dirt track to urukazi..