“Seaside Sprint” Route Details (Watopia)
Watopia’s “Seaside Sprint” began as a Rebel Route in August 2019. Zwift made it an official (albeit event-only) route in its February 2020 update.
At only 6.3km (3.9 miles) this is the shortest Watopia loop which includes a sprint segment, making it perfect for races that include sprint points or for group rides with interval efforts like Sprintapalooza. As a route, this is the smallest loop on Watopia apart from Volcano Circuit and Volcano Circuit CCW.
Route Basics
Length: 6.4 km (4.0 miles)
Elevation: 46m (151′)
+2.8km (1.7 miles) lead-in with 36m (118′) elevation
Map: Watopia
ZIMetrics
Rating: 4.9/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
lead-in + first lap
4 W/kg: 14 minutes
3 W/kg: 16 minutes
2 W/kg: 19 minutes
Start & Finish
This event-only route begins at the start pier, giving us a lead-in over The Esses of 3 km. The official route start and end is at the sprint arch.
Format: Loop
Restriction: Event Only
Ride Achievement Badge: none
Run Achievement Badge: none
Leaderboard Segments |
| JWB Sprint (0.36km, -0.1%) |
Strava Segments
Bike Selection
This route is quite flat, with the only climbs being quick rollers. So aero rules the day. Get the most slippery frame and wheels you can afford!
Route Description
This clockwise loop begins at the sprint banner at the end of the Julynn Washington Bridge (JWB) between the Esses and Italian Villas. After passing under the banner you will ride over the cobbles of the Italian Villas, hang a right onto the twisty gravel road, then cross the land bridge to our magmatic friend, the Volcano.
Turn right at the fork after the land bridge, climbing up the short pitch into the volcano, and you will find yourself going through the Volcano Circuit banner. The lap counter just after the banner counts down how many laps you’ve got left.
Ride out of the volcano, turn right onto the glass bridge, then another right into the Esses. The Esses roller coaster will spit you out onto the short reverse sprint over the JWB.
That’s one lap… how many more have you got left?
Ridealong Video
this is an excellent resource for anyone using Zwift, many thanks
These routes descriptions are great. Thanks for taking the time to put them together.
Interestingly the map above looks flatish but the Strava profile, and my experience is there are a lot of rollers.
Yeah I’ll definitely be doing on an all-round setup next time
When I view Zwift Insider pages (on a mobile device) that have course details, there’s not enough guttering on the page when you get to the VeloViewer content. The profile and map capture the touch input, so I can’t scroll down the page.
It would be great if they were a little narrower so I can grab outside them easily to keep scrolling.
Or you could overlay an almost blank div on them (just says something like “tap to interact”) that disappears after an initial touch event and reappears when you touch outside of them. It’s a bit of a ghetto fix, but I’ve done that on a project before where the content didn’t have Google’s nice-ish ‘use two fingers to scroll” thing.