Today, Zwift launched their next “mini Challenge”, celebrating new routes created for the upcoming Zwift Games 2025. Named “Route Chaser: Zwift Games”, the challenge is to complete all five of the routes which will be raced in March’s Zwift Games series:
- Makuri Madness
- 16km, 88m elevation
- Achievement Badge: 325 XP
- ZIMetrics Difficulty: 7.4/100
- Scotland Smash
- 18km, 167m elevation
- Achievement Badge: 365 XP
- ZIMetrics Difficulty: 9.1/100
- Downtown Eruption
- 19.9km, 278m elevation
- Achievement Badge: 400 XP
- ZIMetrics Difficulty: 11.2/100
- London Uprising
- 20.8km, 359m elevation
- Achievement Badge: 420 XP
- ZIMetrics Difficulty: 12.5/100
- ZG25 Queen
- 44.8km, 896m elevation
- Achievement Badge: 895 XP
- ZIMetrics Difficulty: 28.4/100
Note our ZIMetrics difficulty ratings for each route: they get higher as you move through the challenge! In fact, our estimates say Makuri Madness will take just 24 minutes to complete at 3 W/kg, while ZG25 Queen is estimated at 87 minutes at 3 W/kg.
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.
As with other mini challenges, you will also get a 1000 XP bonus for finishing this one.
Joining the Challenge
To sign up for this Challenge, just click its card on the home screen (the big banner at the top):
If you see this screen, you’re signed up:
Clicking a route from this screen will take you to the corresponding map 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:
Getting Creative
Once you’re signed up for the Challenge, you can get creative about how you complete the routes. Do them in workouts, do them in events, do them as free rides. You do you!
Here’s a 200IQ move if you’re looking to complete as many of these mini challenges as possible: you can complete other workout-based challenges like Cardio Crusher or The Racer’s Edge and this Route Chaser challenge by doing one of the Cardio Crusher/Racer’s Edge workouts on one of the Route Chaser routes! (But again, make sure you’re signed up first.)
Zwift Games: Coming Soon
Zwift Games begins in early March, and it’s going to be huge! Watch Zwift Insider for a post covering all things Zwift Games this Monday, February 24.
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