This page includes basic details for all routes on Zwift’s Innsbruck world. For additional route details, click the corresponding link to be taken to that route’s detail page.
Innsbruck’s flagship route is actually just a portion of the 2018 UCI Worlds course which was raced in September 2018.
Route Basics
Length: 23.6 km (14.7 miles)
Elevation: 487 m (1,598‘)
Lead-In: 0.2 km (0.1 miles)
Map: Innsbruck
Restriction: none
Achievement Badge: 470 XP
Innsbruck’s flagship route is actually just a portion of the 2018 UCI Worlds course which was raced in September 2018.
“Achterbahn” is German for rollercoaster, but this challenging route is a lot more work than any rollercoaster you’ve ever taken. Covering all Innsbruck roads in both directions, this figure 8 route is almost 20km longer than Watopia’s Figure 8, with 4x the elevation gain!
Route Basics
Length: 47.38 km (29.4 miles)
Elevation: 973 m (3,192‘)
Lead-In: 0.2 km (0.1 miles)
Map: Innsbruck
Restriction: none
Achievement Badge: 950 XP
“Achterbahn” is German for rollercoaster, but this challenging route is a lot more work than any rollercoaster you’ve ever taken. Covering all Innsbruck roads in both directions, this figure 8 route is almost 20km longer than Watopia’s Figure 8, with 4x the elevation gain!
Created to host the Continental Qualifiers for the 2023 UCI Cycling Esports World Championships, this route starts flat enough… but the entire second half is uphill. Hope you’re packing extra w/kg!
Route Basics
Length: 12.9 km (8.0 miles)
Elevation: 480 m (1,575‘)
Lead-In: 0 km ( miles)
Map: Innsbruck
Restriction: Event Only
Achievement Badge: none
Created to host the Continental Qualifiers for the 2023 UCI Cycling Esports World Championships, this route starts flat enough… but the entire second half is uphill. Hope you’re packing extra w/kg!
In terms of profile, “Innsbruck KOM After Party” ride is essentially ~30km (18 miles) of flat followed by a solid climb up the Innsbruck KOM. This makes for exciting race possibilities as riders with more pure power work to drop climbers in the early flat portion, while climbers claw back time on the final KOM.
Route Basics
Length: 37.2 km (23.1 miles)
Elevation: 640 m (2,100‘)
Lead-In: 0.2 km (0.1 miles)
Map: Innsbruck
Restriction: Event Only
Achievement Badge: none
In terms of profile, “Innsbruck KOM After Party” ride is essentially ~30km (18 miles) of flat followed by a solid climb up the Innsbruck KOM. This makes for exciting race possibilities as riders with more pure power work to drop climbers in the early flat portion, while climbers claw back time on the final KOM.
Innsbrucking is the flat(ish), “in town” portion of the Innsbruck course. Beginning and ending at the start/finish banner, this route makes a great crit race course thanks to the “Leg Snapper”, a 450m long, 7% climb located around 5km from the start. This hill forces an attack every lap. Save your feather powerups!
Route Basics
Length: 8.8 km (5.5 miles)
Elevation: 72 m (236‘)
Lead-In: 0.2 km (0.1 miles)
Map: Innsbruck
Restriction: none
Achievement Badge: 170 XP
Innsbrucking is the flat(ish), “in town” portion of the Innsbruck course. Beginning and ending at the start/finish banner, this route makes a great crit race course thanks to the “Leg Snapper”, a 450m long, 7% climb located around 5km from the start. This hill forces an attack every lap. Save your feather powerups!
Innsbruck’s “Lutscher” (German for lollipop) is a lollipop route, meaning you have a lead in then one or more circuits to ride. The Lutscher CCW takes you over the climbing circuit in a counter-clockwise direction.
The route begins at the start/finish banner then places you on the KOM loop for as many laps as you can handle. With Innsbruck’s steep climbs this means you can pack in a lot of climbing if you wish!
Route Basics
Length: 13.7 km (8.5 miles)
Elevation: 401 m (1,316‘)
Lead-In: 8.9 km (5.5 miles)
Map: Innsbruck
Restriction: none
Achievement Badge: 240 XP
Innsbruck’s “Lutscher” (German for lollipop) is a lollipop route, meaning you have a lead in then one or more circuits to ride. The Lutscher CCW takes you over the climbing circuit in a counter-clockwise direction.
The route begins at the start/finish banner then places you on the KOM loop for as many laps as you can handle. With Innsbruck’s steep climbs this means you can pack in a lot of climbing if you wish!
Innsbruck’s “Lutscher” (German for lollipop) is a lollipop route, meaning you have a lead in then one or more circuits to ride. The route begins at the start/finish banner then places you on the KOM loop for as many laps as you can handle. With Innsbruck’s steep climbs this means you can pack in a lot of climbing if you wish!
Route Basics
Length: 13.7 km (8.5 miles)
Elevation: 401 m (1,316‘)
Lead-In: 10.9 km (6.8 miles)
Map: Innsbruck
Restriction: none
Achievement Badge: 270 XP
Innsbruck’s “Lutscher” (German for lollipop) is a lollipop route, meaning you have a lead in then one or more circuits to ride. The route begins at the start/finish banner then places you on the KOM loop for as many laps as you can handle. With Innsbruck’s steep climbs this means you can pack in a lot of climbing if you wish!
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Congratulations on the accurate distances and elevations for Lutscher (& CCW). I was a little disappointed but not terribly surprised when I didn’t get course credit after only one lap to the KOM start. I believe the Zwift description only has the elevation and distance per lap. .
UCI World for innsbruck is a bit off, unless i missed something. I ended up doing 16.8 miles and over 2600 feet of climbing on my adventure. Could be it dropped me off quite a way before the actual start.
Regardless, your site is pretty comprehensive and well organized. Thanks you.
Disregard! Just looked at my route in Strava, and apparently I got routed twice around the loop, and never made the turn to return to town.
What would be the ideal bike for this route? Full climbing setup, climbing bike with aero wheels, aero bike with climbing wheels?
I just did Lutshcer last night. There does not seem to be any lead in (anymore?). You start right before the KOM.
I did it last night and started back in town – total ride from start to second KOM banner to get the completion was 24.7KM
I am curious about the Lutscher and Lutscher CCW routes. I am on a journey to complete all available Zwift routes and thought that I had successfully completed both of these routes. I did receive an achievement badge for both in zwift. When I go to the zwift insider verified route for either of these routes in Strava my efforts are not listed. I use the third party ZwiftHub app to help me keep track, and I have some routes that I still need to complete, but these two are the only completed routes that don’t show up. I’ll probably… Read more »
Follow up if anyone is interested. My original rides were both done in a meetup. The Lutscher meetup started well into the first climb whereas the non-meetup Lutscher route started at the Start/Finish banner as listed above. There are two more routes that I need to re-ride Lutscher CCW and London Classique, I am not sure if there are any others that are affected in meetup or event mode but I would hate for the need to ride some of these routes twice, just to check them off my list.
Eric, thanks for all you do! It is greatly appreciated!
is there a way to get February schedule yet?
thanks
Larry
Why does it say that the length is 13.7 km when it is much longer? I cycled 18 km yesterday and still had the last climb.
Way too many pop ups on this site
Just thought you ought to know that you are missing links to the France (zwiftinsider.com/france) route descriptions from many of the other ‘worlds’ such as zwiftinsider.com/innsbruck