“Going Coastal” Route Details (Watopia)
Sort of the “desert version” of Temple Trek, this is one of the shorter routes released with Zwift’s October 2023 coastal road expansion. It’s a very flat route, beginning at the desert arch in Fuego Flats and takes you partway down the new coastal road.
Sort of the “desert version” of Temple Trek, this is one of the shorter routes released with Zwift’s October 2023 coastal road expansion. It’s a very flat route, beginning at the desert arch in Fuego Flats and takes you partway down the new coastal road.
Route Basics
Length: 16.5 km (10.3 miles)
Elevation: 63m (207′)
+2.3km (1.4 miles) lead-in with 6m (20′) elevation
Map: Watopia
ZIMetrics
Rating: 8.3/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
4 W/kg: 25 minutes
3 W/kg: 28 minutes
2 W/kg: 33 minutes
Start & Finish
Begins with a lead-in to the desert arch, and ends at the Sasquatch Sprint.
Format: Point-to-Point
Restriction: Level 10+
Ride Achievement Badge: 308 XP
Run Achievement Badge: none
Strava Segments
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Route Description
Begin in fast, flat Fuego Flats, then turn at the LAX roundabout in Saddle Springs to access the new southern coastal road.
You’ll quickly ride through Googie Springs then enter the Evergreen Coast section, where you’ll hit the Woodland Sprint then the Sasquatch Sprint, where this route officially ends.
Ridealong Video
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Where do you go once you complete the route, e.g. on a group ride?
continue, U-turn or teleport are all good options =)
U-turn or teleport do not work on a group ride. I am curious what happens when a group reaches the end of a route before the (time-based) group ride ends. 😀
Once you complete the Going Coastal route, the route badge, and the XP bonus, you continue on the current road heading toward the Mayan jungle. You will be in the area where the sasquatch is known to roam, so you can look for him or her. Good luck! If there is still time left for the group event, you will turn left or right randomly once you get to the jungle. During a recent group ride, half the group went left toward the Alp du Zwift climb while the others went toward the right. If you take your time and ride less than 30 KPH for the route, you will likely not make it to the jungle climb.
Yea, it’s silly. Zwift needs to create a turnaround leading back the other direction. Then the course would be fun to ride on. The current course just ends.
@Eric Schlange There is something wrong here.
Start & FinishBegins with a lead-in to the desert arch, and ends at the Stoneway Sprint.
then the Sasquatch Sprint, where this route officially ends.
Dont think this route will go to the Stoneway Sprint.
Fixed, thanks!
I was planning to take my BMTR Faster Masters group on this course for our Tuesday, October 31 ride. After riding a test ride today I think I will have to change plans. There is no turnaround to follow the course back. Once the course ended Zwift took me to the Jungle for endless counter-clockwise loops. I can’t believe Zwift would offer this route to groups without providing a loop back to the start or a turnaround. It is a nice course, but a huge setback for offering group rides.
You could do what group rides used to do back in the days before Zwift had automatic routing during group rides and manually select the route. Once everyone gets to the Mayan jungle, have everybody in your peloton stop and exit the group ride, perform a U-turn, and head toward Google Springs. Regroup in the tunnel and ride together toward the LAX roundabout. It would be helpful if everybody wore the same kit. You will not have the chevrons or beacons, and other riders will be on the route, but it is doable and may even present a little fun change of pace. Most likely, it will be like the old days of herding cats on group rides.
I don’t think this route is restricted to level 10+. I’m new to Zwift and completed this route last night as a level 3, became level 4 in the middle of the route. And I got the badge upon completion. I started the route from the Tour of Watopia and page, not sure if that affected it.
You’re right – it won’t be restricted to 10+ until Tour of Watopia ends. I’ll update all 8 routes so they don’t show a restriction for now…
Fun ride. I am really liking the new Watopia routes. Colorful and challenging.Good job Zwift!
That was fun, pity it finishes half way along the coast though!.
Eric, has Zwift consider building a loop at the southern end of Going Coastal? Doing so would make a great course for group rides. Thanks for your consideration.
Out of interest, what would the total distance be if you carried on to reach the jungle section.
Going Coastal is a great course; however, it just end leaving one to laps in the Jungle. Why not create a turnaround in one of the towns so it loops back to the circle near the start close to the desert banner. That would be a great course for group rides. Come on Zwift, you know you can do it! Thanks for your consideration.
Hey, thank you for all your effort with this website. This is a treasure chest!
There might be something wrong with the Segment for this route in Strava. From what I could gather, it seems like the segment in Strava is starting where the lead-in starts and not where the actual route starts in Zwift, leaving the last sprint out of the main segment.
Huh… you’re right! That’s really weird. I wonder why that happened? I’ll have to create a new segment I guess… stay tuned.
New segment now linked above.
You are FAST!
Thanks a lot for the update. We have a group that “competes” on a common segment every week, and this week’s route is “Going Coastal”. I’ll ride the segment tomorrow, let’s see how it works.
From what I could gather, it appears that currently in ZWIFT the lead-in is not included when you pick the route from the menu. So that might be something affecting the segment as well. In our case, two persons rode the segment earlier today, and only one of them had the segment show on Strava.
And you deleted the old segment, so how am I even supposed to find my old rides on this segment to do the crop trick? Ugh. Please leave the old segment but call it OLD or with leadin or something so all that history isn’t deleted. I’ve been asking you to do this for like half a decade now. So frustrating that the only person in the world you can create zwift strava segments does not want to do it properly.
Would have happily done exactly that, Tim. But that wasn’t possible, because Strava wouldn’t let me create this segment without deleting the old one first. Because they’re too similar.
Just a reminder that most, if not all of what you complain about when it comes to me and Strava segments are rooted in issues on Strava’s side that they refuse to fix. I’m just doing my best to work around them.
(Admittedly, this particular issue never needed to happen in the first place. I created the segment with the wrong end point, and that’s on me.)
I am aware of all the limitations that strava has and take them into account before complaining. This is the first time you’ve ever claimed it was a Strava limitation.
It’s not the first time. Probably won’t be the last, either.
search in “My activities” on Strava website for Going coastel. I found my two attempts there easy
Unfortunately that doesn’t find all attempts (I just confirmed it doesn’t find at least one for me).
OK. Strange. It found all mine. Do you remove/edit all info that autouploads to Strava when finishing and saving a Zwift activity?
It’s not complicated: because the route name (Going Coastal) might not be in the activity name or description (even if you left it as default and did no edits), you can ride the strava segment without the name being in the activity name or description.
It looks like there is an error with Going Coastal on Veloviewer now too, as only 6 people have completed it. Must be related to the issue discussed yesterday here…?
Yeah, my Going Coastal entry disappeared from Veloviewer–is there any way to get it back, or do I need to re-ride it?
You can edit your Strava activity to force Strava to recompute segments.
Ah, I see, a tiny crop causes it to find the segment–the “crop trick” mentioned above. Thanks for the quick reply, @Eric Schlange ! 🙂
Assuming you can find the activity.