“Elevation Evaluation” Route Details (Watopia)
If you’re looking for a single route that includes The Grade for an FTP test, this is it. While Oh Hill No begins right at the bottom of The Grade, Elevation Evaluation begins around 3km from the start of The Grade (if free riding) or around 6km from the start if you ride it in an event. This should provide ample warmup time before taking on The Grade as an FTP test.
Route Basics
Length: 24.6 km (15.3 miles)
Elevation: 396m (1,299′)
+3.1km (1.9 miles) lead-in with 14m (46′) elevation
Map: Watopia
ZIMetrics
Rating: 16.0/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
lead-in + first lap
4 W/kg: 45 minutes
3 W/kg: 50 minutes
2 W/kg: 63 minutes
Start & Finish
Starts and ends at Sasquatch Sprint banner. Events begin at the coastal pens and travel through the Sasquatch Sprint before turning around to head back toward the Grade.
Format: Loop
Ride Achievement Badge: 490 XP
Run Achievement Badge: none
Strava Segments
Route Description
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This route is a clockwise loop beginning on the southern coast road, heading up The Grade, descending the Epic KOM forward, then returning to the start line via the southern coast road. The official route begins and ends at the Sasquatch Sprint banner, but events have a lead-in from the coastal pens of around 3km.
Starting at the Sasquatch Sprint, ride along the coastal road until you reach Ciudad La Cumbre (“Summit City”) and turn right to head up The Grade. This climb is a built-in FTP test (read how it works here), so if you want to test your FTP, try to set an even pace for the duration of the climb.
Once you reach the top, you’ll turn right to descend the Epic KOM, then another right to take the short climb through the edge of Titans Grove before dropping down into Saddle Springs and taking the LAX roundabout to the southern coast road.
This rolling road follows the coastline, taking you over the Woodland Sprint as well as the Sasquatch Sprint whose banner serves as the finish line.
Only 490 XP!?!?!?!?!?
All routes give a 20XP per km bonus if you complete them for the first time. This route is no exception.
Yeah, it was a slog, but it did have a couple flatter spots. It sure could have been worse, and while I’d like to whine that I put in a higher than 490 point workout up that thing, I have to admit there are other routes far harder, far longer. 😆
I just rode this route and got the badge but didn’t get an ftp readout at the top of the climb. Should it give one every time or only if you get an improved ftp?
It should display your detected FTP on the sign post just after the banner at the top of the grade every time.
You really have to look for it, it’s not overly obvious.
Whats the best bike for this route all rounder or climber
Tron bike is fastest for the total lap time because it goes down as much as it goes up and there’s plenty of flat road as well. Aethos with Meilenstein wheels is fastest for the KOM segment.
I averaged 228w up the climb, but my score was only 214w. Do you know why this would be?
Because your average wattage up the climb is not the same as your FTP. A bit more info here: https://zwiftinsider.com/segment/the-grade-kom/
Do you get both route badges doing this route?
Elevation Evaluationand Oh Hill NO??
No, you can only ever get one route badge.
There is an error on the moving map at the top (from Zwifthacks): The route starts close to the sprint gate, so I didn’t get credit for it, but it does NOT head counter clockwise after the star pens and then do a bizarre clockwise reverse jaunt.
Are you sure?
The animation is what you get if you do it in an event (in my experience at least). Head out from the pens, go through the Sasquatch Sprint, then turn around on the little loop road Zwift added so you can head back toward the pens.
I think when free riding, you start just after that loop around, facing the direction of the pens.