You're right I left that out, there's also a random chance of getting 1,000 XP (which I never see, just lots of gloves lol) I will make sure to mention that correction in the next video, thanks for the reminder, I had completely forgotten 😃

Got all the badges. It help me advance to level 50 and this year tour du Zwift was double XP did many rides on them also😂

@@EverythingIsPhotogenic 1000 if spinner lands on lightweight wheels and you’ve already got them 👍

@@EverythingIsPhotogenic also, don't forget that if you do a course that ends on the top of the Alpe like Quatch Quest or Road to Sky, you only need to pass back through the banner and bring your avatar up to speed in order to watch her/him rack up an additional 260 XP for he 12.5 km descent and the inevitable run out at the bottom. So, once you have all the badges, the Road to the Sky is actually the MOST efficient way to rack up XP. From the spawn point until my avatar stops at the bottom of the descent, it takes me right around 1 hour (7 minutes to the base of the climb, 39-42 minutes of climbing, and then the descent). On days when I get the 1000 XP bonus to go with the 33 km of the route + descent, I get 1660 XP in one hour, the same as I would get if I were to ride at 83 kph. Since that sort of speed is literally impossible for an hour in any normal riding situation, I'd call that a pretty sweet hack for quickly running up your XP.

@@mathewrose2951 Not for the noobs silly.... most people aren't going sub-60, getting the 1000XP or pulling the Chris Pritchard special of cranking their weight up to 250kg on a TT bike and bombing down after an 1800 watt sprint lol!! You're right though. For intermediate+ climbers, it's a solid return. Please tell me you've done the Pritch hack! It's hilarious. I am totally trying it the next time I do the Alpe.

Thank you for the generous comment 🙏 thanks for checking out the videos I really appreciate it!

I feel the same way. Our weather gets so bad here that there was just no way I was going to be able to come up with a ton of relevant content for the winter... I made a couple videos last year about Zwift that went pretty nuts with views and I realized Zwift sucks just as much now at shepherding new riders along as it did in 2015... Maybe even worse considering the community is so much larger now. No one is making these videos for newbies. Shane makes great stuff but it is very geared toward experience. Eric Schlange is a godsend, but the man simply won't capitalize on video which is what people really want... No reading, just sit and absorb. People are absolutely mind blown by stuff I had to fumble my way through years ago and im just so used to now, I worry it might be too obvious... Clearly not... For feat of being pigeonholed as the Zwift Lady, I almost feel compelled to post every silly thing I can think of so the newbies don't have to struggle like we did. Shit I went over a year without earning toward the Tron bike... I had to put that in my beginner video... At least 10s of thousands of people might sidestep that landmine 🤣

Awesome! I'm glad you got some use out of it! London and Richmond will be posting probably on the 26th unless I can sneak it out sooner - Christmas and all that jazz 😉

Great point! I've done a couple that way as well I completely forgot to mention that! It's a great way to knock out a ton of badges 🙂

@@EverythingIsPhotogenic Although today's lesson was that I cannot complete Ven Top whilst doing the SST(Med) workout. I made it to 15.3km before the 10-min cool down (which I did on the descent having turned around). Still, I think that doing the session again and seeing how far I can get on the SST(Med) as my fitness improves (hopefully). Wishing you a good Christmas.

@@mikeainsworth4504 you as well!

Thanks! Teddy tells me every day how I owe everything to him and he demands payment in treats, toys, and attention at his discretion 🤣

@@EverythingIsPhotogenic and the problem with this is...?😂

@@ZwiftingWithGranny Sometimes he drools on me when he feels like being a love bug lol... that's pretty weak... you're right lol

You're the best for watching! Thanks 😀

I know a lot of people are coming to the platform for the first time this year, and let me tell you it is really a pain in the but to figure all this stuff out. So many things I wish I knew in the beginning like selecting the Everest challenge, or how to maximize points, there weren't badges in the beginning, but when they launched them, everyone just thought they were a nice collection of worthless trophies in the menu. I'm stuck inside for the winter as are many others so I figured it would be a good time to share some of these things that are obvious to me now, but weren't when I started. I'll be getting the other worlds up soon :)

@@EverythingIsPhotogenic thank you for that and all the great videos, also I would like to wish a safe and happy holidays

@@frankconte264 happy holidays to you as well!!

Enjoy 😊. It’s painfully addictive.

A year later and I hope you've done well with your wattbike.

I actually forgot about that, thanks for the reminder, just signed up 😃

I actually forgot about that, thanks for the reminder, just signed up 😃

Too many about 2500m. It's just a mind-numbing hellhole of a course. You get a good deal of recovery between climbs but for the love of God, having to look at that same loop 11 times is cruel and unusual. What's more painful, is people generally only do that route one time... And when zwift glitches out and doesn't give the badge, well it has to be like a digital kick in the nuts... Not that I know what that feels like, but I understand it's pretty bad 😅

For sure, riding with a bunch can really make these far more achievable. If you use structured workouts, that's another way to tick off the badges. The metric advantage is definitely a good one too, considering the majority of Zwift users are already on the other side of the pond using metric, they're already ahead of us sill Americans who always forget to go in the menu and change it

Me too

I've always seen km shorthand measured in fractions I never hear anyone say "I rode 46 kilometers and 300 meters" they say 46.3. 0.3 is read in common parlance as "point three" or "three tenths" I'm aware of how the metric system works, if you're not a fan of my verbiage, so be it. To each their own. Have a good day.

@@EverythingIsPhotogenic hey I thought that was constructive criticism, I even said it works and I appreciate that you don't just use imperial units. I'll answer but I'm not sure you're even interested in it. A track lap is 400m not 4 tenth of a km. The reason we use km is the same we use light years to measure distances in space or millimeters for the diameter of an allen key, it's just shorter than using meters like 46000m in your example, people can better grasp what 46km is like or what 8mm is when compared to a 5mm one, while 0.005 and 0.008 is so small it's almost identical. Once you use km you indeed use "point three" if there are any decimals after that (if that matters) because it's shorter to say. We may use meters until it reaches a 5 digit number, like the track event for a 10k is 10000m for instance, but start using km as soon as it reaches 1km like during the lockdown our allowed perimeter was 1km. Sorry if my comment comes across as offensive it wasn't my intention. Btw I'm not an English native speaker so even the numbering system differs in my country for things likes years, we don't say the year is 20 20 or spell a phone number digit by digit for instance, I was just pointing out that the metric system allows you conversions on the fly (like you could display 0.3km but say 300m) and that the SI unit is the meter. Merry Christmas

Btw in Zwift if you switch to km you'll see that on a KOM the distance switches to meters when you're less than 1km to go, try it one day :)

@@xGshikamaru I'm aware of that... And miles change to feet but we don't read it that way in shorthand. Everyone's a critic 🤷🏼‍♀️

Facts

I have over 19 million, haha.

Not quite. They are modified using the new bypass roads.

You should get it just fine. If there was some sort of glitch, that's a possibility, but I had it work fine just 4 days ago in a meetup got the badge and the XP. It's happened to people outside of meetups as well. Sometimes the game just doesn't pick up the completion, it's a real pain.

YES!! And, you should join the C Cadence Pace partner it's a pretty nice pace and you pick up more speed with the group. With everyone attacking the festive 500, there are huge groups on Tempus Fugit, even if you go off the front or drop back, you'll likely still be in a mini group cruising.

@@EverythingIsPhotogenic never heard about this cadence group. Did you make a video about that you can point me to or briefly explain it here? How it works, how do you join (I don't see it as an event) Thanks. Btw does this have to do with those ghost pace setters that I see flying by sometimes?

@@lawor8 Ah, ok, so they aren't events, they're actually bots that just ride around at a steady pace and people join in and draft. They're easy to get to. After you pair up and get to the main screen, select the Watopia world, it doesn't matter what course. Then, before you click ride, look at the list that says "Join another rider?" At the top of that list will be a black box that says "Pace Partners" There are A, B, C, and D riders with silly names A. Antequil his the A ride which runs 4-5 WKG and climbs a lot. Literally, no one is ever riding with that one lol. B. Brevet is the B ride and it rides at 3.2-4 with some climbing. C Cadence is the C ride which is actually a good comfortable pace and really popular even for more advanced riders. To ride for longer distances, it seems to be in a good sweet spot for power and just laps Tempus Fugit. If you are a new rider, and C. Cadence is a bit quick, D. Diesel is the real casual paced ride on the flats. I find that one to be a little too easy, even as a woman with lower raw wattage, I blow right out the front at a light spin but I have also been on a bike for several years, so if you were a road/MTB rider before you joined Zwift, I would skip that one. The bots run almost all the time. Occasionaly they turn a couple of them off during non-peak hours, but if you ride at peak times, you should have your pick. I hope that made sense, the black box should stick out like a sore thumb, click it and pick a ride and once you hit ride start pedaling it will dump you in the group already up to speed. It will give you an assist for 5 seconds or until it detects consistent power.

@@EverythingIsPhotogenic Excellent Thanks for the tip....

@@EverythingIsPhotogenic Just a thought would it be faster to use a TT ( even though it cant draft) and just knock out the miles that way? I find the surges with the bot difficult to follow.

The distances are not always an exact computation to the bulk experience points, but they are generally within 20 points favoring high, so effectively you are generally at least doubling your earning when you complete a route badge ( only the first time, of course) So, for example, if you did Quatch quest, you would earn the 920 points for the badge and as long as you rolled over into an even 46km, you would have accrued 920 points along the way, totaling 1840. That's why badge hunting is the fastest way to level up 😀

Yes, exactly. Your avatar will follow the route you've chosen unless you select any turns.

There is a ZwiftInsider web page that has a listing of all routes, which includes the lead-ins, XP, elevation, etc.

Also km is metric, metric just makes sense

Straight from Zwift's own website: Zwift awards XP based on the distance you travel. Cyclists get 20 XP per kilometer or 30 XP per mile, while runners get 10 XP per .25 kilometers or 15 XP per .25 miles.

It automatically directs you on the selected course and will keep you on it until you manually change direction.

Nothing really without going into the menu and looking at your menu, that said, if you don't mind taking a couple of minutes to transfer what you've done so far to the ZwiftHub website, it is a way to track what you have done. It has a lot of great details about the courses and you can slice the data to see what's left and filter by world and so on. It can definitely be a useful tool if you don't mind putting a little maintenance into it.

Or this site: zwifthacks.com/app/routes/

XP is only for the badge completion.

They all offer the extra points I listed. The bulk sum is added to your XP upon route completion.

@@EverythingIsPhotogenic Thank you for the quick reply. So, you are saying that when the route is completed, you basically "double" the XP for that route (not including the lead-in). Meaning, if I did "Dust in the Wind", I would get the accumulative 1080 XP while doing the ride, and at the completion (the first time) I would get ANOTHER 1080 XP? Thank you. :)

Hmm..I can only guess that something was inadvertently triggered whether it reverted in the menu somehow before you entered your ride? Or somehow a directional button was selected at a turn. You really should be able to set it and forget it. The fact that you looped hilly route 4 times leads me to think that somehow it kicked you to hilly route after you selected mountain route and before you clicked ride.

I am 🙂 mostly for high intensity rides but good effect so far. I want to circle back to a follow up video after things calm down after the new year, but suffice it to say, I like it. Definitely is far better than the Amp lotion just on application alone in terms of effectiveness I would say it's been consistent. A hard workout still hurts of course but anecdotally I feel that the fatigue for harder efforts is delayed. I actually want to try it on a longer low intensity ride as well, haven't done that yet.

Try this drive.google.com/file/d/1pzWapEELyOBFS_FD3yHf6jAtw25LYtlq/view?usp=sharing

Would you be able to allow me access - sent a request for it!

@@lawrenceprime3334 all set. Somehow it reverted to invite only, it should have been public.

@@EverythingIsPhotogenic all sorted thank you!!!

Just open the menu and along the side there will be a blue button that says badges. All your achievements including routes will be there

@@EverythingIsPhotogenic You are a star 🌟! Thanks 😊

There's nothing I've found in game but you can try this: zwifthacks.com/app/routes/

Hi 🙂 you only get the XP bonus once. The biggest reason people are on Tempus Fugit because it's pancake flat and you get a good return for speed and earn a lot of XP that way, especially with the Cara Cadence pace partner. I think you'll see more attention in Neokyo now too with flat routes and profiles to chew up XP fast. Peak time, those routes look more like a conga line. 😅

Same Problem, this sucks!

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Just once each time. The banner will come up when you finish a course for the first time.

@@EverythingIsPhotogenic Thanks

Those two are great, aren't they? I snagged that one at release, I missed their first release because I forgot at work but I picked up the beanie, the hoodie, and then picked up the bottle and mug a couple weeks later when they restocked. I love supporting those two. Watching Paula win Daytona was just epic!

Good morning; There are 22 running achievements that are included in the total badge list 🙂 Kind of obnoxious, but that's what you're missing most likely.

@@EverythingIsPhotogenic Good Morning Again! That’s was fast response! I don’t think so.... everything it’s full! I’m only missing the on fire 🔥 loop That’s 25 laps on the Volcano 🌋 I even have the 100k badge!! Hehe I’m guessing there are badges not longer available? Maybe? Thank you again

@@guskrassevich6373 there haven't been any decommissioned badges. There are actually more than 136 as some are hidden/extra credit. You've completed every single running route and pace badge?

@@EverythingIsPhotogenic Ohhhhh so that includes Running???...

@@guskrassevich6373 yep, 22 badges total 😜

Come on now, you know it's ALWAYS gloves!!!

@@EverythingIsPhotogenic or helmet...

You don't have to do anything, just select it and don't touch the directional arrows at all. You'll automatically follow the route. As soon as you choose a direction it overrides it, so when those arrows pop up, ignore them 🙂

that is correct

Yep, it adds up over time. You can just switch it in the menu if you aren't already in metric - as long as you don't mind looking at it. I always think I am going to change mine then I just forget about it lol.

Kind of the purpose of the video, to explain how route badges work 🤦🏼‍♀️

No, I don't use Zwift for 6 months or so out of the year outside of a few rides a month. Our weather is so prohibitive here in the winter we tend to try to savor any rides we can get outdide. I'm only indoors during inclement weather/wind, a workout that needs more control or very occasionally, a workday that pushes my workout into the dark. Slows things down a lot considering how many miles I do in the summer I'm not getting credit for 😉 I'd probably guess this time next year I would be at level 50 unless our weather is really bad this summer 😎

@@EverythingIsPhotogenic awesome. It’s opposite for me can only ride at night since I work for the military. Log in still 18,000km on Zwift which surprised me. I would to ask you if you are able in the future maybe share your training method. Example Polarized or sweet spot etc. just wanted to see you perspective on such programs. I am a subscriber of training peaks. They have so damn many systems FOR SALE always of course 😀😀😀