“Scotland Smash” Route Details (Scotland)
Released for Zwift Games 2025, Scotland Smash covers all of Scotland’s roads except for the Sgurr climbs. As such, it’s a rolling route with a few punchy climbs and a unique finish at the end of a draggy uphill.
Route Basics
Length: 17.8 km (11.1 miles)
Elevation: 167m (548′)
+0.2km (0.1 miles) lead-in
Map: Scotland
ZIMetrics
Rating: 9.1/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
4 W/kg: 27 minutes
3 W/kg: 29 minutes
2 W/kg: 36 minutes
Start & Finish
Begins with lead-in to Champion’s Sprint arch, ends at Scotland lap arch.
Format: Point-to-Point
Ride Achievement Badge: 365 XP
Run Achievement Badge: none
Strava Segments
Route Description
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You begin from the Glasgow start pens, heading through the Champion’s Sprint and completing a full lap (and then some) of the Glasgow Crit Circuit. Then it’s time to head into Scotland’s outer loop, climbing the draggy uphill through The Cliffs which will also serve as your finishing climb at the end of the route.
Through the lap arch, then it’s a descent down to the Corkscrew Castle climb (attack!) and a hard right to go past Nessie before turning left and hitting Breakaway Brae, which is technically a KOM even though it feels more like an uphill sprint!
Descend from the Brae, turn left onto Nessie’s road once more, then right to head back to Glasgow. You’ll go through the Mystic Roundabout and up the straight false flat before entering the city proper, where you will complete another lap of the Glasgow Circuit which includes the sprint/KOM Clyde Kicker.
Head out of Glasgow once more… it’s time for the final draggy climb to the finish. 1.5km to go… will someone go for a long attack? Or do you surf the wheels on the draftable climb and hope for a pack sprint finish?
The route ends at the lap arch.
It may be like Richmond Loop Around, where the people who rode it as an event when it was first release didn’t get the badge, and had to reride it (and that is not a course I wanted to do twice).
I prefer routes that loops. 🙁
2nd lap through the city a reverse Glasgow would have been nice. now its 2 times the same.
I see a badge under Achievements
Routes not available as club rides yet?
Why is this ride advertised as 1 lap in the Zwift Games 2nd ride this year when it’s obviously two laps?
Ummm… what makes you say it’s two laps? (It’s only one.)