“Neokyo Crit Course” Route Details (Makuri Islands)

Animated “Neokyo Crit Course” Route Details (Makuri Islands) Map
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Released unannounced in Zwift’s November 2021 update, Neokyo Crit Course is an event-only route which would have slipped under the radar except that its route badge appears in game. That’s right – a route badge for an event-only route! (A first on Zwift.)

Released unannounced in Zwift’s November 2021 update, Neokyo Crit Course is an event-only route which would have slipped under the radar except that its route badge appears in game. That’s right – a route badge for an event-only route! (A first on Zwift.)

Route Basics

Length: 3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Elevation:
15 m (49‘)
Lead-In: 0.7 km (0.4 miles)
Map: Makuri Islands

Start & Finish

Starts and ends at a virtual lap banner located not far past the start of the Alley Sprint.

Restriction: Event Only

Achievement Badge: 90 XP

Sprint & KQOM Segments

Alley Sprint (0.48 km, 0%)
Castle Park Sprint Reverse (0.21 km, 0.3%)

Strava Segments

Neokyo Crit Course

Bike Selection

This route is nearly pan-flat, so aero rules the day. Get the most slippery frame and wheels you can afford!

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Route Description

After a short lead-in from the Harbor Start Pens, we cross the virtual lap banner as we zip down a narrow street in the Shopping District portion of Neokyo.

The Alley Sprint actually begins just a bit before the virtual lap banner, and ends well after it. You’ll pass the Makuri Tree on your right after finishing the Alley Sprint, then travel toward Neokyo Center, passing the Center Shrine before going into Castle Park. This is where the second sprint of this circuit lives. Castle Park’s sprint is a short effort on the park’s narrow brick path. Give it all you’ve got, grab green, then finish winding your way out of the park and back to the Shopping District, where you’ll pass through the lap banner once more. Wash, rinse, repeat. Multi-lap crits will fly around this super-flat circuit – the flattest of Zwift’s crit circuits, with only 3.9m of climb for every kilometer of distance.

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Scott McCauley
Scott McCauley
1 year ago

You should call out the fact that this route is the first event-only route in Zwift to have a completion badge. Also, you need to update your table of all routes to show XP points for the badge.

Hova z
Hova z
1 year ago
Reply to  Eric Schlange

When will this route be available? I haven’t seen in any up coming events

Timothy Williams
Timothy Williams(@timmy04jc)
1 year ago
Reply to  Hova z

Today’s L39ion LA practice crit event is on Neokyo Crit!!! 11am pacific

anderfo
anderfo
1 year ago

Even if it’s event only, this route is available at any time if you use ZwiftPref 🙂

The Strava segment link above goes to Wandering Flats, though!

Job
Job
1 year ago
Reply to  anderfo

I’ve just installed ZwiftPref, but I can see how to select this route? Can you help!

anderfo
anderfo
1 year ago

There no Strava segment for this course yet (I guess that’s why Wandering Flats is listed instead?). Use ZwiftPref to access the route!
This route was +90 XP.

David Rowe
David Rowe
1 year ago

Hmmm, why are votes not allowed on these comments?

M. D. S. Günther
M. D. S. Günther
1 year ago

Not the biggest fan of flat crits, I think the popularity of dolphin lap compared to bell lap shows that I’m not alone with that sentiment but we will see. More routes is always nice.

Rowan Smith
Rowan Smith
1 year ago

That’s the same route just reversed isn’t it?

M. D. S. Günther
M. D. S. Günther
1 year ago
Reply to  Rowan Smith

Yes of course, I worded it badly. I personally think a kicker like the one in dolphin makes crits much more interesting. The elevation is of course the same but the dynamic is different.

Jan Dvořák
Jan Dvořák
1 year ago

The problem is that on Zwift a flat course is just like an unending straight… On Dolphin lap the gradient changes actually replace the real world turns a bit.

Steve clowes
Steve clowes
1 year ago

Now we just need Zwift physics to finally introduce some speed reduction for sharper bends, needing a quick burst of power to get back to race speed after the corner.

Colin Peerman
Colin Peerman
1 year ago
Reply to  Steve clowes

you mean like London has…

John Stoker
John Stoker
1 year ago
Reply to  Colin Peerman

London does this?

Adrian Godley
Adrian Godley
1 year ago
Reply to  John Stoker

I always feel like the 180° turn at the end of Pall Mall scrubs off some speed and I have to add power. I don’t get that on any other corners though

Paul Potter
Paul Potter
1 year ago

Not a great fan of these Crit Courses. I’m too old to race with all these younger athletes!! Therefore I am a little perplexed as to why you have to do the ‘event’ in order to achieve the badge! I little unfair, I think!!

Desmond H Haman
Desmond H Haman(@desmond-haman)
1 year ago
Reply to  Paul Potter

Maybe one day we’ll have age group races?

Ian
Ian
1 year ago
Reply to  Paul Potter

2021-12-10, 6:45am PST Bicycle Way of Life Fri-yay Ride (D) social ride on a Crit course for 60 minutes. Not a race. 🙂

Jono
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Jono(@jonovision_man)
1 year ago
Reply to  Paul Potter

There are non-race “events” on this one, not to mention Tour de Zwift this month

Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell
1 year ago

Just finished all the Neoyko courses. But still have to do the Neoyko Grit course. Would like to know when I can do it.

Eric
Eric
1 year ago

Anyone notice the finish line keeps changing on this route? Last week it was in front of the banner, this week behind the banner…

neil cotterrill
neil cotterrill
1 year ago

So, how do you check for events on this route short of wading through the daily events?

Tim
Tim
1 year ago

Will this be added to veloviewer route quest thing?

Thorsten
Thorsten
1 year ago

Didn’t get the route badge after finishing the Tour de Zwift stage at Neokyo Crit Course. Strange. Has anyone experienced the same? (And Zwift support doesn’t help, just bots.)

James Metcalfe
James Metcalfe
1 year ago
Reply to  Thorsten

Interesting I was going to ride this later, but with it not appearing on the veloviewer leaderboards, and now potentially not getting the route achievement, maybe i’ll do standard instead of short.

Nick
Nick
1 year ago
Reply to  Thorsten

I just did this route on TdZ and I did get the badge. You get it when you complete the first lap

James Metcalfe
James Metcalfe
1 year ago

Segment for this course is not on the veloviewer leaderboards, is this because it is event only?

John
John
3 months ago

The Strava segment does start and finish at the in game start and finish line. I think the Strava segment starts and finishes at the start of the sprint.

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