Would that be Big Foot Hills? I am from south NJ where everything is flat. The hills are fun, but I need a break from them today.
George:
One of the handy places to look at climbing versus distance is Zwifthub. The ascents and the distances are displayed for all courses along with the profiles. Pick the level of climbing you want per kilometer or mile.
i used zwifthub to figure that. i am just trying for a second opinion.
Big Foot Hills isn’t flat. Try Tick Tock or Tempus Fugit.
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Tempus Fugit is the fattest that I know of. Are you trying to target a specific distance?
If you want a flat loop then Watopia’s Waistband only has 95m over 25kms and is probably a bit more interesting than just going back and forth in Tempus Fugit
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… is an event-only route.
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I did not know that. In that case the new Beach Island loop only has 48m in 13kms
But is simple enough to route/steer manually 
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Just pick any route of the length you want and then go into settings and move the Trainer Difficulty slider all the way to the left. This makes it so the trainer puts out a constant resistance as opposed to getting harder or easier as you hit up and down hills. Note that Zwift will still calculate your speed based on the actual power you’re putting out, but you won’t feel it getting harder or easier. I did a ride with this setting yesterday because I destroyed myself on Alpe Du Zwift a couple days ago and I needed a day of perfectly even spinning. I’d say it works almost 100%, there might be slightest changes when you hit hills but that could have just been in my mind it was so subtle.
The only way I know to get to settings is to actually go in to start a ride and then click Menu and then settings is available along with garage, etc. There may be another way to get to settings that I’m not aware of.
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Has this been done yet? I’ve grabbed distance and elevation data from Zwift Companion. I’ve entered all of this data into a Google Sheets spreadsheet. I then created a formula that calculates the total distance traveled per route over a single foot of elevation gain. A larger number here represents an overall flatter route independent of the number of laps traversed for that route. A smaller number represents a greater amount of elevation gain over the total distance for that route.
If this is correct, then Tempus Fugit is the flattest route per total distance. Tick Tock is the next flattest, but Tick Tock has almost twice the amount of elevation per distance as Tempus Fugit. Ven-Top has the greatest amount of elevation per total distance. Road to Sky would be have the next greatest amount of elevation per total distance.
Importantly, my spreadsheet does not include any distance or elevation for the lead-in to the route (which, admittedly, can affect my numbers).
What this spreadsheet does for me, then, is allows me to see at a glance that routes like Watopia Waistband has 17.2 miles and 331 feet in elevation, but if I ride Tempus Fugit for 17.2 miles, I only climb 146 feet. We see this again with Triple Flat Loop which has 22.5 miles and 553 feet in elevation, but riding Tempus Fugit for 22.5 miles has me climbing 191 feet.
Does this seem correct to everyone or am I missing something?
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Big Flat 8 is 31.5km with 109m+
The Big Ring is 51.1km with 274m+
Even so, those still have a lot of small hills.