Today, Zwift launched a new “Big Apple Badge Hunt” mini-challenge featuring four routes from the New York map expansion that also launched today. Ride all four routes to complete the challenge and earn XP bonuses! Read on for details…
Challenge Requirements
The Challenge features four routes from today’s New York map expansion. The routes are sorted by length on the challenge screen, but you can do them in whatever order you’d like:
- Green to Screen (28.4km, 207m): perhaps the best route for seeing most of NYC’s new roads within an hourlong ride, as it covers nearly every bit of new tarmac from Times Square south.
- Watts the Limit (31km, 219m): an out-and-back course that begins in Central Park and travels south to loop around Grand Army Plaza and return by the same roads.
- Spinfinity Ultra (35km, 291m): almost like two laps of Spinfinity, except you cross the bridges in a different direction on the second lap.
- Double Parked (42.2km, 330m): begin with an almost complete lap of Prospect Park, then head all the way up to do a lap of Central Park before coming back down to finish that Prospect Park lap.
Challenge Rewards
You will receive a 500 XP bonus for each route you complete in the challenge. (Keep in mind, if this is your first time riding each of these routes, you’ll also receive an XP bonus for earning that route’s achievement badge.)
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Joining the Challenge
To join the Challenge, just click its card on the home screen. If you return to the home screen after doing this, you’ll see the card now shows your progress. If it’s showing your progress (0/4, 1/4, etc) you know you’re signed up!
Once you’ve joined the Challenge, completing one of the Challenge routes in any sort of activity (free ride, workout, group ride, race) will mark the route as completed and earn your bonus XP.
Stacking Rewards
Pro tip: “stacking” mini challenge requirements lets you earn bonus XP even faster. For example, you could ride The Ultimate Warmup from the FTP Check Challenge on one of the routes for this challenge and get credit for finishing both!
Deadline
This challenge is live from October 27-December 31. (We recommend finishing before the final day, though, as the Challenges sometimes end at an unexpected time on the last day.)
Questions or Comments?
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This is great! 2000 XP for something I would do anyway.
And what are they going to give us for Thanksgiving and Christmas then? 🤔 😁 😁
Do we get 64 xp or 32 xp?
These routes aren’t part of the Zwift Unlocked event, so it will be 32xp/mi.
Thanks for including these “signed up” vs “not signed up” images. I stack stuff a lot, which means I end up entering routes and workouts from various things and it’s nice to know how to check that I’m getting it right.
Yeah, this one ended a day early. I had anticipated finishing this challenge today, 12/31/25, forgetting that Zwift finds value in terminating challenges early. Do they enjoy irritating their customers? Does Rouvy or the other apps end their challenges early? Sometimes it seems Zwift is their own worst enemy!
Same here. Very frustrating. 🤬
Yeah, why on the world do they say it’s available October 27- December 31 and then it’s not available on Dec. 31? Absolutely ridiculous and frustrating. Why bother with the challenges if you can’t trust the dates they list?
Even the Zwift support bot thinks it should still be available. I think they need to bring it back for a couple of extra days.
Apparently Zwift uses UTC time to determine when time-limited events end, which seems less than friendly for subscribers who then have to keep up with their time differences. Why not use the UTC-12 time zone to determine the end time? No one will have to deal with the challenge ending early in their time zone, and most will get a little extra time. Seems a lot more customer-friendly.