“Cobbled Crown” Route Details (Richmond)
Launching with Zwift Games 2026, this route is a new twist on Richmond’s classic 2015 Worlds Course. It duplicates nearly all of that route, but adds a lumpy lead-in over the reverse climbs section.
Route Basics
Length: 24 km (14.9 miles)
Elevation: 288m (945′)
+0.3km (0.2 miles) lead-in
Map: Richmond
ZIMetrics
Rating: 13.1/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
4 W/kg: 37 minutes
3 W/kg: 42 minutes
2 W/kg: 52 minutes
Start & Finish
Begins from Richmond start pens, ends at Richmond lap banner.
Format: Point-to-Point
Ride Achievement Badge: 480 XP
Run Achievement Badge: none
Strava Segments
Route Description
We begin in the reverse direction, descending Governor Street from the start pens, then climbing the 23rd St and Libby Hill Reverse KOMs in quick succession.
The last draggy climb up Main Street to Broad Street finishes out the lumpy start to this course, and delivers us to a spot on Broad Street that’s less than half a kilometer into the flat start of Richmond’s original 2015 Worlds Course. From here on out, we’ll follow the 2015 Worlds Course to its finish line.
So Cobbled Crown is really just the 2015 Worlds Course with a lumpy, triple-climb lead-in.
From this point, riders are taken onto Monument Avenue for Richmond’s signature sprint, then back to Broad Street for another sprint before descending Main St and retracing the lead-in in reverse.
That means climbing up Libby Hill in the forward direction, then 23rd St soon after, and finally up Governor Street. The straight-line finish is a false flat that always feels extra long, and often rewards patient racers. Good luck!
Woah, this makes a turn of a type I don’t think we’ve seen before in Ricmond: turning from reverse richmond to forward richmond.
So it’s basically Richmond Loop Around, but with only one lap of Cobbled Climbs Reverse at the beginning, instead of three?
I am not sure that Richmond needed another route that really isn’t much different than the existing ones.
Another new routes in a world I only visit to collect the badges and have no desire to visit outside collecting badges.
We get AI nonsense, expansions of crap worlds and other stuff we don’t need or want but in the meantime not even basic features like an easily accessible pause button or even a back button for workouts. We need a workout player, new roads in Watopia, Makuri and Scotland, a custom route creator but instead we get Ai crap, New York and this
Seriously thinking about moving to mywhoosh next time renewal comes up. Mywhoosh which might not be perfect but at least it’s a change of scenery and free
Where do you get the whole AI thing from? Or is just a synonym for “bad”?
Could be referring to the route/workout suggestions and the evaluations of our rides/workouts.
You have my permission to stop using Zwift such it brings you such anguish.
why is Libby Hill KOM not in the Leaderboard Segments?
Good question! Not sure how I missed that. Added.
Sorry, but I think Richmond is boring. I hardly ever ride there
I’m glad we got that sorted out. Thanks for letting us know🙄🔫