La Tortue

Well, maybe riding outside faster does. Strava just published their end of year stats and I found this little tid-bit interesting: "Strava’s report also notes that riding Alpe d’Huez virtually beforehand saves time on the real climb. Two runs on Alpe du Zwift is apparently good for one minute off your real-world time on the Alpine icon; five practice runs should, on average, net you a two minute saving. Whether this is from familiarity, or the extra grunt-work in training, or some combo of the two, is not specified." So essentially ride the virtual climb and you go up the real thing faster. This should really be appealing to someone who lives in an area such as Florida or other flat areas as hill training can be a problem.