In case you can’t get to Belgium this weekend…
Tour of Flanders / Ronde van Vlaanderen
Ride the Tour of Flanders Challenge this Saturday…
Watch the race on Sunday!
Ride Identifier : [RvV]
Date : Saturday, April 1, 2017
Time : whenever you wake up!
or start with the real Sportive riders:
08:00 in Antwerp, Belgium (UTC+2 / CEST)
Countdown clock:
http://www.sport.be/werideflanders/2017/en/?v=15102014
Location : Watopia (scheduled course)
Distance : 260km
Elevation : 2450m
Route : if following the route plan below, recommend setting “Volcano Flat”
Need to be able to manually change your route direction during the event…
e.g. keyboard, Zwift Mobile Link app, or the iOS app(?)
| Ronde
Distance | Ronde
Profile | Zwift
Path | Zwift
Route | Zwift Laps | Zwift Dist | Cumulative Dist. | Zwift Elevation |
| 0 – 65 | flat | Volcano Flat | A-B-D-E-C-G-H-K-I-J | 5 | 61.5 | 61.5 | 230 |
| 65 – 95 | hilly | _ Hilly _ | A-B-C-G-J | 4 | 36.4 | 97.9 | 400 |
| 95 – 115 | flat | Volcano Flat | A-B-D-E-C-G-H-K-I-J | 2 | 24.6 | 122.5 | 92 |
| 115 – 125 | hilly | _ “Mountain-no-tower” _ | A-B-D-F-E-C-G-J | 1 | 26.7 | 149.2 | 518 |
| 125 – 200 | hilly | _ “Hilly Volcano KOM” _ | A-B-C-G-H-K-L-K-I-J | 6 | 104.4 | 253.6 | 1200 |
| 250 – 260 | flat | Volcano Flat (partial*) | A-B-D-E-C-G | 1 | 7 | 260.6 | 13 |
| TOTAL | | | | | 260.6 | | 2453 |
(*) Course finishes at the gate after the Italian village, on the way to the Volcano.
Above is an attempt to create a route of the same distance, elevation(?) and rough profile as the 2017 RvV race. The “Zwift Route” column uses the “A,B,C…” references from http://zwiftblog.com/map/
References
2017 Tour of Flanders (men’s race)
- http://www.rondevanvlaanderen.be/en/rvv/elite-men/race
- http://www.rondevanvlaanderen.be/sites/default/files/rvv2017-elite-men-map-profile.pdf
Tried to model the profile of the route above on the actual race vs the sportive…
- distance/elevation: 260 km / estimated 2400-2500 m?
2017 We Ride Flanders challenge (“sportive”)
distance/elevation: 4 options:
- 237km / 2160m
- 200km / 1823m
- 141km / 1627m
- 74km / 919m
http://www.sport.be/werideflanders/2017/en/parcours/map/#1
Zwift Course Schedule:
https://community.zwift.com/#course-schedule
Friday and Saturday, the course will be Watopia
On Sunday April 2nd, it will be … London :(
NB. “course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PDT) or UTC-8 hrs”