Rebel Route: Litus Fugit

Zwift’s fresh southern coast expansion on Watopia added 19km of beautiful rolling roads along the ocean, opening up lots of possibilities for long, flat Watopia routes.

Today we introduce the first of our southern coast-inspired Rebel Routes: Litus Fugit! This route covers the desert and new coast road in both directions, with a quick turnaround in the Jungle. (The “fugit” part of the name comes from Tempus Fugit, the desert route where we begin. It’s Latin for “flees.” “Litus” is Latin for “the beach,” shoreline, coast… so Litus Fugit means “The Coast Flies,” if we take some liberties.)

This is the flattest Zwift route over 30km, with only 4.4 meters of climbing per kilometer of riding. And it’s a loopable route, not a one-way affair like many of Zwift’s southern coast routes. If you’re looking for a long, flattish effort with just enough variety to keep it interesting, this may be your route!

Lots of sprint possibilities on this route

About Rebel Routes

“Rebel Routes” are Zwift rides not available on Zwift’s routes list, thus requiring manual navigation.

See all Rebel Routes >

The reward for your rebel ride? Exploring a new route, knowing you’ve gone where few Zwifters have gone before. And a Strava segment rank in the tens or hundreds instead of the thousands! Rebel Routes are also included as a separate category on our Veloviewer Route Hunter leaderboard.

Route Description

We begin by selecting The Big Ring as our route, which spawns us just before the start/finish line of our route and navigates the first few turns automatically.

Ride across Fuego Flats, through the Oasis and Saddle Springs, then turn onto the southern coast road at the LAX roundabout. You’ll notice more rollers on the road now – no big climbs on the southern coast roads, but lots of small ups and downs!

You’ll hit four sprint segments as you traverse the road in this direction: first the Woodland Sprint Rev, then Sasquatch Sprint Rev, Acropolis Sprint Rev, and Stoneway Sprint Rev. Give them a go and grab a green jersey if you’re up for it. Or just spin on through if it’s an easy day.

At the end of the coastal road we need to turn around, so we navigate the shortest turnaround possible, turning right to head up the Jungle’s dirt road before taking a left onto the Mayan Bridge cutoff and another left back onto the Jungle Circuit. Ride through the Jungle arch then take a quick right and you’re back on the coastal road, heading toward the desert.

Time for four more sprints! You’ll hit the Stoneway Sprint, Acropolis Sprint, Sasquatch Sprint, and Woodland Sprint before climbing away from the coast and back onto Fuego Flats.

Now it’s just a flat, fast shot to the finish. Ride through the desert arch, take the turnaround loop, then ride through the arch once more in the same direction as you began. That’s your finish line. Nice work!

Profile

While the profile looks quite spikey, this route is actually very flat. As mentioned above, it’s the flattest “long” route (over 30km) in Zwift! The biggest climbs on this route are during the turnaround in the Jungle at the midway point.

Getting Started + Lead-In

The easiest way to get started is to choose “The Big Ring” from your Watopia route options. This will auto-navigate you all the way to the Jungle, where you’ll need to manually turn right instead of left.

Turn by Turn

Here are the turns you’ll need to make to successfully complete Litus Fugit after starting from The Big Ring route:

  • Left to Southern Coast
  • Right to Southern Coast
  • Right to Mayan Loop
  • Left to Mayan Bridge
  • Left to Mayan Loop
  • Straight (Left) to Jungle Loop
  • Right to Southern Coast
  • Right to Desert Flats
  • Straight (Right) to Desert Turnaround

Route details:
Distance: 61km (37.9 miles)
Elevation Gain: 269m (882′)
Strava Segment

Rebel Route Suggestions

Got an idea for a great Rebel Route? Share it below and maybe we’ll publish a post about it!

Eric Schlange
Eric Schlangehttp://www.zwiftinsider.com
Eric runs Zwift Insider in his spare time when he isn't on the bike or managing various business interests. He lives in Northern California with his beautiful wife, two kids and dog. Follow on Strava

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C.R3
C.R3
12 days ago

Cool. after several big rings I was thinking about this route yet & will ride this weekend.

Sam C
Sam C
12 days ago

Great idea for a route.
I wish Zwift put in a roundabout of some kind. Sort of like when they connected Yumezi and Neokyo.

Angoisse
Angoisse
12 days ago

Good use of the Mayan Bridge. I feel that it is a sorely unutilized piece of road.

Matthias Rosenkranz
Matthias Rosenkranz
12 days ago

If you do the little loop in the jungle in the opposite (clockwise) direction, you would need one manual turn less (if you have chosen ‘The Big Ring’ as route). First manual turn would then be a right turn onto the Mayan Bridge.

Nate
Nate
10 days ago

And then also if you get a powerup in the jungle arch you could use it in the jungle before you get to the next arch at the beginning of the southern coast.

MJ Fox
MJ Fox
11 days ago

Great route!!
Rode it this morning; Strava gave me the route segment but there’s no female leader board.🤔

MJ Fox
MJ Fox
10 days ago
Reply to  Eric Schlange

Yes and that’s my quandary; I rode the route and it shows up in my Strava achievements that I rode the Rebel Route but I wasn’t placed on the leaderboard. 🤷‍♀️

Dwayne
Dwayne
10 days ago
Reply to  MJ Fox

MJ, is your activity on Strava set to Public/Everyone? If not, it won’t count towards leaderboards and won’t show up.

MJ Fox
MJ Fox
10 days ago
Reply to  Dwayne

Just checked, it’s set to “Everyone”; it must be a Strava glitch. 😑

Peter R
Peter R
9 days ago
Reply to  MJ Fox

Try “Refresh Activity Achievements” option in Strava. If that does not work, use “Crop” and crop a very small portion of the ride (usually at end it works best). Be sure not to crop out any of the segment. This will force Strava to recalculate the segments. Also make sure the ride is set to “Virtual ride”.

Peter R
Peter R
9 days ago

I rode a similar route looping the Southern Coast via Mayan bridge. On the way back instead of riding the desert flats, I looped back via Ocean Blvd tunnel: https://www.strava.com/activities/10136869242

Jonathan
Jonathan
7 days ago

Why not go all the way around the Vulcano or Vulcano Flat almost 100km flat segment.

Kevin Collings
Kevin Collings(@klcoll)
5 days ago

Damn. Just finished the route, brought up the menu to save… and zwift crashed before I could hit save (on PC). Guess it’s a lost cause getting it uploaded to zwift. Strava will have to do.

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