“Waisted 8” Route Details (Watopia)
This route gets its name from Watopia’s Waistband since both routes cover the “waistband” encircling Watopia’s Volcano, Downtown, and Fuego Flats areas.
Waisted 8 traverses this loop in the opposite direction, though, and includes a loop of Jarvis Island for good measure.Â
Route Basics
Length: 30.7 km (19.1 miles)
Elevation: 144m (472′)
+0.2km (0.1 miles) lead-in
Map: Watopia
ZIMetrics
Rating: 14.0/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
lead-in + first lap
4 W/kg: 42 minutes
3 W/kg: 46 minutes
2 W/kg: 56 minutes
Start & Finish
Begins and ends at downtown Watopia start/finish banner.
Format: Loop
Ride Achievement Badge: 615 XP
Run Achievement Badge: none
Strava Segments
Bike Selection
This route is quite flat, so aero rules the day. Get the most slippery frame and wheels you can afford!
Route Description
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We begin in downtown Watopia, traveling around the northern half of the Volcano and onto a clockwise circuit of Jarvis Island.
The Jarvis circuit is one loop in this figure 8 route, but you’ve got a much bigger loop left to complete!
Exit Jarvis, turning right to travel down the land bridge and up the Dirty Sorpressa. You’ll make your way through the marina and into the Ocean Boulevard tunnels before climbing up through the redwoods and descending to Saddle Springs for a fast, flat ride through the Fuego Flats desert.
As you begin to descend from the desert toward downtown Watopia, you’re almost to the finish line. Hang a right on Ocean Boulevard, another right toward the start pens, and you’ve got just a few hundred meters to the finish line. Go go go!
Just completed the TdW B ride on Waisted 8 but no segment shows in Strava, has a segment been created yet?
It has not. You can thank Strava for that, and the fact that they limit me to creating 5 segments within a 24-hour period.
Thanks Eric, I’ve had the same recently when re-creating segments that Strava deleted in it’s segment tidy up.
Should it appear when the segment is created?
No, probably not. If not, you’ll have to re-upload your Strava activity for it to match. Strava doesn’t (usually) go back in time for Zwift segment matching.
FYI: the segment has now been made.
What is the easiest way to re-upload it? Thanks for the advice 🙂
The easiset would be to crop your activity by 1 sec or so in Strava. Then it will re-match the segments.
These new times estimates by w/kg are an awesome addition. We can finally put to rest the BS swift estimates!
This would be a good route to ride with a robo pacer.
I rode this again today and kept going to the sprint banner on Jarvis island and Strava now shows that the segment does indeed end there, not the usual place and where the event finishes.
The Waisted 8 Strava segment starts and ends in downtown Watopia. Is that not what you’re seeing?
Ah, when I looked again, I see that the finish banner is actually my finish banner and the last part of the route is in grey on Strava. Of course you are correct, as I should have realised.
Good to know I’m not going crazy!
Is Strava allowing you to make segments shorter than the 500m (or whatever) minimum length now?! I’m see the Jarvis Sprint and now the Shisa Sprint as well.
Yup. Got special permission last week! And promptly made about 30 segments…
Does that include this missing two on the Alpe?
Missing THREE. And yes! 💪
Fantastic Route. Lotta fun going on.