“Countryside Tour” Route Details (Makuri Islands)
Introduced in Zwift’s May 2021 Yumezi launch, Countryside Tour is sort of a reverse Chain Chomper with some extra flat road at the beginning.
Introduced in Zwift’s May 2021 Yumezi launch, Countryside Tour is sort of a reverse Chain Chomper with some extra flat road at the beginning.
Route Basics
Length: 16 km (9.9 miles)
Elevation: 185m (607‘)
+0.2km (0.1 miles) lead-in
Map: Makuri Islands
ZIMetricsBETA
Rating: 8.6/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
lead-in + first lap
2 W/kg: 34 minutes
3 W/kg: 27 minutes
4 W/kg: 25 minutes
Start & Finish
Begins and ends at lap arch
Achievement Badge: 310 XP
Sprint & KQOM Segments |
Country Sprint (0.13km, 0%) |
Temple KOM (2.5km, 3.6%) |
Strava Segments
Bike Selection
Go with your most aero road bike since there’s so much tarmac at the start. But on a one-lap race, swap to a gravel bike before starting the Temple KOM, then stay on your gravel bike through the lap arch/finish. (It’s not worth the time lost to swap back.)
Route Description
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This route breaks up nicely into 3 sections of roughly equal length: the flat start, the Temple KOM, and the descent from the KOM tree back to the start line.
We begin with a 5.5km flat warmup through the farmlands to the Country Sprint arch. Then the road begins to climb as you go through Village Onsen and the Fishing Village before turning left onto the dirt path of the Temple KOM climb.
The Temple KOM ends at the giant mystical tree, then we descend through the marketplace/Castle area to the start banner to do it all over again.