The description of the Coastal Crown Loop says that it is 1 lap of 24 km. However, the accompanying elevation chart shows 15 km and zwiftinsider also shows 15 km for 1 lap. So is the race 24 km or 15 km?
Thanks.
If you do it as a free ride, it has a 5.6km lead in and then you do the 15km circuit. 20.6km
However if you do it in a race, the lead in is longer because the start point is different (the pens are farther away from where you start in a free ride). 24km.
The lead in includes the Mayan Mountainside KOM so you end up doing that twice in a race, plus the Itza KOM once right after the Mayan Mountainside KOM ends.
Then the lead-in part of the race? (I have been in some races where the timing doesn’t start at the gate but, instead, after a lead-in although this is typically fairly short.)
Yes the lead-in is part of the race. If you’re talking about the current ZRacing series, it’s a scratch race so your placing is not based on time, it’s whoever gets to the finish first regardless of time.
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It’s an exceptionally long lead-in and the lead-in ends at the top of the Mayan Mountanside KOM so you will be a good way into the race and pushing quite hard by the time the official Coastal Crown 15 km route starts.
When I race I always print out the elevation chart by screen capture from the race description. I label the mileages on the printed chart by using the cursor in the race description. Then I know exactly where the hills start and end. When I did this for the Coastal Crown Loop, the mileages were off because of the lead-in. Is there any way to get the entire 2D elevation chart including the lead-in? If so, it would be helpful if the race organizer could provide such a chart or a link. (3D elevation charts aren’t useful for this purpose.)