“Loop de Loop” Route Details (Watopia)
Created to support the inaugural Zwift Games, this short route is a new take on Watopia’s oldest roads.
Created to support the inaugural Zwift Games, this short route is a new take on Watopia’s oldest roads.
Route Basics
Length: 12.4 km (7.7 miles)
Elevation: 144m (472‘)
+0.2km (0.1 miles) lead-in
Map: Watopia
ZIMetricsBETA
Rating: 6.7/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
lead-in + first lap
2 W/kg: 27 minutes
3 W/kg: 21 minutes
4 W/kg: 19 minutes
Start & Finish
Events begin in the downtown Watopia start pens, and the route starts and finishes at the downtown banner.
Achievement Badge: 245 XP
Sprint & KQOM Segments |
| JWB Sprint Reverse (0.2km, 0%) |
| Hilly KOM (0.9km, 5.5%) |
Strava Segments
Bike Selection
In a race, you’ll probably want an advantage on the key climb of the route. So for most riders, we recommend an all-arounder like the Tron bike. Read Tron vs Top Performers to compare various bike+wheel combos >
Route Description
Route profile by ZwiftHub – the place to plan and track your route achievements!
Begin in downtown Watopia and head up the short ramp to The Esses, which twist and turn and dump you at the fast start of the JWB Sprint Reverse. Catch your breath through the Italian Villas and up past the waterfall, then wave to the seals as you loop back to the JWB and head back through The Esses to the downtown banner.
That’s the sprint leg done. Now it’s time for the hilly leg!
Head up the Hilly KOM and go all-in for polka-dotted glory if you’ve got the legs. Then grab a bit of recovery on the descent, where you’ll turn a quick right onto the bypass road that loops back to the Hilly KOM.
Almost there! Just 1km of flattish roads take you back to downtown, where you’ll sprint for the win through the start/finish banner.
Hi, no XP for this?
There will be. We just don’t know what it is yet.
Eric, on the topic of XP and tracking activities, are you still maintaining ZwiftHub? If so, any thoughts of adding the climb portal routes into it?
Funny route name this! The same words also exactly exist in Dutch, where the name would mean “Walk the Walk”. Would love riding this route soon;)
Will these routes be available to select in game / through companion app, or event only?
And the Zwift Games 2024 version is 2x this segment.
Loop de Loop de Loop de Loop 😅
Rode the event version, both laps, today. I saw the completion banner for the Loop de Loop after the first lap, but didn’t get the badge. Anyone else ride today and get the badge?
Known bug. Zwift will get us all our badges soon, I’m sure!
I have my badge now, time to hunt the next one
For me the banner popped up to say route completed. However I couldn’t find the badge in my collection of completed routes.
I think I got the XP but I don’t know what the points were.
Edit: just seen it’s 245 points, see further up
Rode Loop de Loop today and didn’t end up back downtown. The course took me to the Italian villas.
Hmmm… that’s where you’d go if you kept riding past the finish line…?
A ladder race yesterday saw 2 riders get “lost” on this course. Might be a new bug with the navigation.