Last week Zwift launched their next “mini Challenge”, celebrating new routes on France’s fresh tarmac/cobbles. Named “Hell of a Route Chaser Challenge”, the challenge is to complete five of the new French routes:
- Croissant
- 12.3km, 71m elevation
- Achievement Badge: 185 XP
- ZIMetrics Difficulty: 5.9/100
- Hell of the North
- 19.8km, 241m elevation
- Achievement Badge: 395 XP
- ZIMetrics Difficulty: 10.7/100
- Gentil 8
- 23.7km, 248m elevation
- Achievement Badge: 465 XP
- ZIMetrics Difficulty: 12.4/100
- Bon Voyage
- 31.3km, 155m elevation
- Achievement Badge: 565 XP
- ZIMetrics Difficulty: 14.3/100
- Three Musketeers
- 35.8km, 200m elevation
- Achievement Badge: 705 XP
- ZIMetrics Difficulty: 16.6/100
Note our ZIMetrics difficulty ratings for each route: they get higher as you move through the challenge!
Challenge Rewards
Your reward for completing all five routes? Boosted fitness of course. Because any ride is a good ride, right?
But also, you will surely earn a route badge or five, as these are all new routes. Each route badge is worth the amount of distance XP earned for riding the route’s length, meaning you effectively earn double XP the first time you complete a route and earn the badge. That means you’ll earn 2315 XP for these 5 route badges, on top of the regular distance XP you accumulate per km/mile.
Zwift has bumped up the challenge XP bonus as well, doubling it to 2000XP for this challenge. (You will earn 250XP for completing each of the first 4 stages, then 1000XP for the 5th, for a total of 2000XP.)
All told, that’s ~6630XP you will earn by completing this challenge.
Joining the Challenge
To sign up for this Challenge, just click its card on the home screen under “Challenges”:
If you see this screen, you’re signed up:
Clicking a route from this screen will take you into France to ride that route. But you can also ride these routes via other methods once you’re signed up. Ride them in events, as workouts, or even as free rides by choosing them from the route picker. As long as you sign up beforehand, completing the route via any of these methods will mark it as complete for the challenge.
You’ll know you completed the route for the challenge because you’ll get a banner on your screen:
Questions or Comments?
Before you ask: I don’t know exactly how long this challenge will remain available. Zwift tells me each mini challenge will typically last around 3 months, but also Zwift hasn’t been revealing precise deadlines on these challenges until a week or two before they expire.
Got other questions or comments? Share below!
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