Ever since Strava’s April decision to open up its challenges to allow indoor miles, Zwifters have been unlocking badges at record levels! This month there are several appealing challenges for Zwift riders, including two special climbing challenges. Here are the details…
A Challenge by Kate Courtney
Climb 10,000 feet in 10 days (June 5-June 14)
Kate is a pro mountain biker who won the 2019 UCI World Cup overall title – the first American to do so in 17 years! She created this challenge as a call for the Strava community to fundraise for the World Health Organization COVID-19 Response Fund.
Create a fundraising page, join a team, and put in maximum elevation over 10 days. Any elevation/donation helps, but you must climb 10,000 feet by June 14th to complete the Strava challenge.
Haute Route Dolomites Challenge
Climb 3300m in a single ride between 12:00am Friday 12th June and 11:59pm Sunday 14th June in your local timezone
The toughest challenge on the list – but what else should we expect from Haute Route? This is their first-ever Strava challenge, and it’s a doozy! To mimic the elevation of the Queen Stage for Haute Route’s canceled 2020 Dolomites event, riders must climb 3300 meters (10,826′) in a single ride in order to complete this challenge. The challenge only runs from Friday-Sunday in your local time, too, so you’ve got to plan accordingly.
What does 3300 meters look like on Zwift? Well, you could ride:
- 3x up Alpe du Zwift, plus another 194m
- Almost 8x up the Epic KOM forward (or almost 6x if you include the Radio Tower “bonus climb”)
- More than 24x up London’s Box Hill
- 66x up Watopia’s first climb, the Hilly KOM!
If you complete the challenge (and jump through the hoops of filling out a form or two) you will be entered into a drawing for a 3-day Haute Route event in 2021, plus prize packs from Precision Hydration.
Be sure to visit the link below for details, so you can get registered properly.
Learn more at Haute Route’s website >
Monthly Strava Challenges
Strava’s standard monthly challenges are still allowing indoor miles to count, which is great news! Here are the details of each challenge – click for more info, and to sign up.
- June Cycling Challenge: 600 kilometers of riding in one month
- June Climbing Challenge: climb at least 7,500 meters
- June Cycling Distance Challenge: ride over 1,250 kilometers
- June Gran Fondo: ride 100 kilometers in one ride
Questions or Comments
Are you taking on any of these challenges? Got questions? Comment below!
What’s Strava? Sounds like something I used to use.
You or Monica interested in doing the haute challenge this weekend? Unofficially of course. I was thinking 2x quatch quest should get it done.
Or lets start a group ride and do “The Über Pretzel” and afterwards one more time up and down the Alpe du Zwift:
you will earn the 100 miles badge and the “The Über Pretzel” Route Badge for free
Sounds a decent challenge. Surely, you have to ride a bit more after 2nd Alpe decent to get the 100 miles? Might consider to get the badge. A worthy reward for doing my 2nd Über Pretzel.
It should work with the Über Pretzel and one more Alpe du Zwift: Über Pretzel is about 128 km and the finish is up on the alpe du zwift. after descending (12,4 km + one more uphill (12,4 km) + another downhill ride (12,4km) you should have about 164 km
Would be a hard and long ride…
You’ve forgot “Chasing Cancellara Climbing Challenge by Mercedes-Benz” 4000m D+ between 29.05 and 25.06 😉
I don’t see that in my Strava challenges list. Link?
Hey Eric, here’s the link to it:
https://strava.app.link/FQZqXFIga7
Cheers, only 148 metres of climbing to go on that for me.
https://www.kom.club/ is the place I go for all weird and wonderful strava challenges 🙂 most I join and Ive already completed = Free trophies! 😎
https://www.strava.com/challenges/stravajapanclubvirtualjune20
This is my favorite challenge so far in June 😉
These challenges sound like a lot of fun to do
I am planning to do the Haute Route Dolomites Challenge with couple of friends from our cycling group this Saturday starting at 9 am CET, riding 3 (and a bit) x Alpe du Zwift. If anyone else would be interested in joining us, follow me on Zwift and let me know to get the meetup invite!