“Outer Scotland” Route Details (Scotland)
Originally shared as a Rebel Route in May 2023, “Outer Scotland” covers Scotland’s outermost roads in a clockwise direction, starting and ending in Glasgow at the Champion’s Sprint arch. It was officially added to the game as a featured route for Tour de Zwift 2025.
Route Basics
Length: 11.1 km (6.9 miles)
Elevation: 104m (341′)
+0.2km (0.1 miles) lead-in
Map: Scotland
ZIMetrics
Rating: 5.7/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
lead-in + first lap
4 W/kg: 17 minutes
3 W/kg: 18 minutes
2 W/kg: 23 minutes
Start & Finish
Begins and ends at the Champion’s Sprint banner in Glasgow.
Format: Loop
Ride Achievement Badge: 220 XP
Run Achievement Badge: none
Strava Segments
Bike Selection
You’ll want the most aero setup you can get. See Fastest Bike Frames and Wheels at Each Zwift Level for tips.
Route Description
Route profile by ZwiftHub – the place to plan and track your route achievements!
We begin in Glasgow with the first bit of the Glasgow Crit circuit, then turn left and head for The Cliffs.
From here we stay left, basically. This keeps us on the main outer loop of Scotland: through The Cliffs, the lab banner, up through Corkscrew Castle and Breakaway Brae, down around the mystical roundabout, then back into Glasgow.
Once we re-enter the city we continue to keep left, hitting the Clyde Kicker, descending through the back road of the city, and finishing our Glasgow Crit Circuit route right where we started. Sprint to the banner, and you’re done!
Looks like a fun quick jaunt through one of Zwift’s best worlds (shortly behind Makuri Island in my opinion).
Great short-medium length loop route. Wonder why zwift did not make this right away when releasing Scotland map.
Tour de Zwift will have us do 2 laps on this as its “short” route in Stage 2. I’m guessing an aero bike will do best on this one, probably the Tron?
Tron will work fine, but a true aero bike (Venge with disc wheels for example) will be a bit faster.
Felt AR is the bike to have😉
zipp 454 or zip
zipp 454 or zipp 858/super 9 on the scott addict rc
I’m probably over thinking the bike selection for the upcoming Z-racing series. Hear me out please.
Last week I was dropped on the last Jarvis KOM climb, so I’m thinking I need all the climbing help I can get. I’m going to be in the peloton draft as much as possible so will the extra aero help me as much as going light during all the rollers that this course offers?
Going thru that dilemma right now with a race in under 30 minutes but TBH I’m thinking climbing advantage is best used in no-draft situation (think parts of the Volcano, but mostly Epic, Radio Tower, Ventoux, Alpe). If you are struggling with climbing same as me it will help a little but my biggest issue isn’t with the climb itself but rather with a transition between the climb’s finale (where you want to ease up already) and the downhill speeds (where you can enjoy draft).
So Tron if you can’t choose, otherwise either F 2024 with disc (for aero) or 7.8 (for climbing). I’m going aero because I want to have max advantage at the finish.
Aaaaand I forgot to switch so I had 7.8 lol. Still worked very hard on climbs, still sprinted to finish first (apart from the flyer that won by 10 seconds).
The climbs are over a lot quicker this week than on Jarvis KOM so I think (hope) aero will prove best – Venge & Disc. (I got dropped on penultimate Jarvis KOM last week Mike!) Have you raced yet, if so, what set-up and what outcome?