“Hot Laps” Route Details (Watopia)
Released in November 2025 to support stage 3 of Zwift Camp: Build, this route is simply four laps of the well-known Volcano Circuit with a finish up the Jarvis KOM.
Released in November 2025 to support stage 3 of Zwift Camp: Build, this route is simply four laps of the well-known Volcano Circuit with a finish up the Jarvis KOM.
Route Basics
Length: 23.3 km (14.5 miles)
Elevation: 149m (489′)
+0.2km (0.1 miles) lead-in
Map: Watopia
ZIMetrics
Rating: 11.1/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
lead-in + first lap
4 W/kg: 33 minutes
3 W/kg: 36 minutes
2 W/kg: 44 minutes
Start & Finish
Events begin from the downtown Watopia start pens. The route finishes at the Jarvis KOM arch.
Format: Loop
Restriction: Event Only
Ride Achievement Badge: 465 XP
Run Achievement Badge: none
Strava Segments
Route Description
We begin in Watopia’s downtown start pens, turning right to head over to the Volcano. After crossing the glass tube bridge, you’ll turn left onto the Volcano Circuit to begin riding it in a clockwise direction.
Once you ride through the lap arch, you’ve begun you first of four full laps. Pound out those laps, and if you’re feeling good, see if you can negative split your times, getting faster each lap! (The leaderboard will show your times.)
After finishing the fourth lap, you’ll turn left into Jarvis, then right to begin the Jarvis loop in a CCW direction. This is the last bit of the route, and it finishes with a climb up the Jarvis KOM, ending at the arch in the drive-thru tree!
Once you finish, go ahead and coast down to sea level. It’s some easy distance, and you’ve earned it.
Very similar to Scotland After Party. I enjoy these circuit routes.
My escalation issues won’t allow me to do any laps of the volcano circuit unless it’s 100 of them for the achievements up to and including that! 😆
Will there also be a route badge for that route ? As in achievements I mean. I don’t see it in there yet, or will that be put in with the next update ?
It’s already there. Event only route badges are hidden until you get them.
But there is a work around for that so you can still see the hidden badges and that one isnt shown here. I can see the Richmond Rollercoaster and Innsbruck KOM After Party they added this release, but not this one.
Well I have the badge and can see it right now. So it definitely is there.
So there are hidden and extra hidden badges 😂
Oh wait, oops! I was commenting on the wrong route! Yesterday, I pre-rode “Empire Elevation”, which is the last route for ZRL round 2. THAT one didn’t give me an XP bonus or have a badge.
But yes, absolutely, Hot Laps has a badge and XP bonus. Tim is correct. That’s why I list the bonus above. If a route gives an XP Bonus, it also has a badge.
Weird that it doesnt show in the ingame badge section. I can see all I havent dopne grayed out, including No Sleep Till Brooklyn and Innsbruck KOM After Party, but this Hot Laps isnt there.
This is getting hard to keep track to do them all…
One day I would like to figure out this work around 🙂 but thank you for posting what you find out about badges.
Shoot me a message on Discord and I can tell you there. Am in the Rhino, JDirom, ZRacing.app, James and friends and Zwift Insiders channels. Search for Peter Twigt and drop me a mesage.
I didn’t earn the route badge when I test rode it in an event in version 1.101… but my guess is there will be a badge once it launches, since that’s ben Zwift’s standard lately.
You can ride it right now and get the badge. I’ve done just that.
Concerning “Event Only” routes: I am unable to create group rides for my club using “Event Only” routes, yet I see other clubs have that ability. What are the requirements for a club to be able to create events using “Event Only” routes.
Just rode the event, couple km after finish, but no route badge.
i’m on appleTV, version 1.102.
any suggestions or others with same issue?
Hmmm… no idea. It worked for me!
not a bad vo2 workout if u take the third lap as recovery….otherwise its just a roughly 20min time trial with some rest before the kom….strange they call it a vo2 workout considering you finish each lap and immediately start the next…
My plan is 2 warmup laps, then 3rd all out hot-lap, Rest till the KOM and all out again.
Is it actually a loop? After the finish on Jarvis KOM what happens?
I am unable to create a club event using this route in my Zwift Companion app on may samsung phone. Is this a known issue?