How to RIDE MULTIPLE ROUTES Without Quitting Zwift
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
- One of the most frustrating things about Zwift is that you have to exit the program to make any changes to your world/map. We want to be able to keep pedaling and make changes and this is even more true when it comes to route badge hunting! Imagine being able to knock out a handful of short routes without ever exiting the program! Well, while we wait for Zwift to do something with the UI, there is a bit of a workaround for this if you don't mind taking a minute on the companion app to set up some meetups to keep you moving. I show you how to do just that in this video.
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With all the subscribers Zwift has they really need to allow something simple like course changes. The community keeps asking for it but Zwift ignores it.
The problem is actually the way that the game was originally coded. There wasn't a workaround to have the cache dump and it would eventually cause the game to crash. This is why the app closes out at the end of the ride rather than reverting to the main menu. There was actually a UI forthcoming in Q1 2020 and they were going to launch it during the slow season in the summer... then Covid happened. With the huge influx of new subscribers and lockdowns, they didn't want to risk launching it and have it be buggy and cause problems. Historically during the summer, there were only a few thousand riders on at a time, and they could in essence beta test the new UI... but there have been tens of thousands so they scrapped it. My suspicion is that they might even be coding a completely new program to replace Zwift original and will eventually replace it. The code they used is pretty inflexible. It's kind of like video games right? They don't just keep updating an old one, they basically start from scratch. It's definitely frustrating for us, but when you look back at how small scale this game originally was, it makes sense how they got locked into insufficient code.
Thanks for sharing Sarah! Good to know! Ride on!
Great info, am actually doing a badge hunting and the on and off was so annoying. Cool fix and thanks for the videos, learned a lot on ur channel.
Well done, Sarah - thanks for making this one. Gonna try it myself this morning!
Awesome! It's great for London courses, NYC and Innsbruck especially... Skip the nasty lead-ins!
I timed myself doing the hack and just restarting the app and restarting was actually shorter and required fewer steps. I still like your approach and reasoning. You’re so cute and funny. Thanks for the video.
Great Hack 😀 !! ... Thank you very much Sarah 😉!!
I wasn't aware of the 3 meet-ups limitation, great information Sarah as always. Thank you. BTW - Zwift's recent glitch for me was - it lost my bluetooth connections, cadence, power, speed at the exact moment I was going up the incline from the TUBE in London - 15% grade, oh and not only was I burning one of my last matches from the badge route The PRL half, I am now having to pedal instead of 10 seconds at 500 watts, now at 40 seconds just to keep my trainer spinning before locking up. It seems only recently has Zwift been having these issues. 4 badges left (all Huge rides) Four Horsemen, Mega Pretz, PRL Full and Uber Pretz.
So I had the same issue! Three rides in a row, it just wouldn't recover my connections. I completely deleted the program and installed the newer version of the launcher. Fingers crossed it's the fix, no problems since! And those rides are a bear... they are always the last rides for most folks. The pretzel rides they often bake into some of the fondo series so keep an eye out for those. Usually on weekends, if you can make the time slots, it's a great way to ride with other people and speeds up the flats.
Good video! Technically you could do 4 loops. Pick your first as usual from the main menu, then do your 3 meetup limit after. Dunno why you would want to though!
Excellent overview!!!
Thanks for a great video. I'm new to Zwift and have already learned so much from you. How do you maintain such consistent power? Are you running in ERG mode?
Thank for this hack, it works a treat.
Great vid, thanks
Using Meet-ups is a good way of avoiding the horrendous lead ins in Innsbruck’s Lutscher and Lutscher CCW routes as the Meet up spawns just before the start of the route at the top of the hill not in the city 9-11km and 425m of ascent away.
Thanks for this Sarah. I think it would be even smoother if you made multiple meetups first back to back.
Love the videos and +1 for understanding how the code works and that it might not be so easy to add return to menu, anyways, it's still a bummer. Hope they figure it out quick. I see that your erg mode doesn't really jump alot whereas mine goes -+40 watts around target, could it be the companion app Bluetooth connection? Any ideas on that? Thank you. Ride on!
Great Video,
Does it sync it to Strava as one ride or two separate ones? Thanks
Thanks 😊
Great video! Have you tried route hopping in workout mode? It would be great to continue following my planned workout while collecting an extra badge or two.
Yea is this doable the companion app doesn’t allow for that
Keep it up Sarah! ;)
Thanks. Great video. I'm new to Zwift. Have never done a meet up before. When you invite someone do they have the option to decline the meet up? If so, if they decline, does that cancel the meet up?
Couple of things, you could use Tiberius to send you meetups as well if he's your own creation. Also, if you schedule for a day ahead you can set the time to say 1 minute ahead of current time and then if you change the day back to present day it leaves the time the same, so only 1 minute till your meetup starts. Cheers 👍
Thankyou!!!
You are very welcome 😀
will the total time of ride for the log that transfers into strava or garmin be one total or multiple sections of time? and will ride ons accumulate (to hit the 30 or 100 ride ons badge) or they start over with each new route?
Amazing! At 7:16 you got my “Ride on” on your Zwift screen. Your Zwift content is awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome!!!
Really useful video, thank you… only question, it’s regarding the data being sent from Zwift to STRAVA. If you complete 1 route badge, then move to another, will the entire distance, elevation, time all be recorded as 1 or does it automatically separate them?
The "GPS" data attached to Zwift rides is incapable of processing jumps in location in the game, even in the same world. So, when you move from event to event, whether it's a meetup, a race, or a group ride, the ride will end, and save. You will restart a brand new ride at zero miles and zero elevation. It will all apply to your overall stats in the game, but will show up as several separate rides.
Thank you for your response, I’ve been recently collecting the Route Badges, however I’ve just been on to see what routes I need to collect, however it’s indicating I’ve now not got some of the routes I’ve done .
What would be the best way to resolve this?
Thanks for your content :)
@@carlsimmons305 honestly, the only way to fill in the routes is to complete them, even if you're under the impression you have. There is no way for Zwift to rectify missed badges. A few things to look out for, make sure the blue banner comes up at the bottom of the screen that says "Route Complete." Make sure you don't veer off at all, an accidental u-turn that is corrected will negate the badge, make sure the route is selected in the menu - don't manually navigate and make sure you save the ride. If you trash rides, sometimes the achievements are deleted.
Absolutely & that’s my point, I’ve gone out of my way to do exactly what you indicated, however I now find several haven’t been accepted. I even made sure I knew the approach distance & rode further than required.
The only thing I haven’t done each time is taken a screen shot proving I’ve received the badge.
Just curious to know since I don't recall you said it was possible: can I set 2 meetup in advance? Like one at 6PM and the second one at 7PM in two different worlds? Thanks, very interesting as usual!
Yep, as long as you're solid on your timing, you don't have to futz with it while you're riding, it may just work better for some folks that might not know how long it will take to finish a course to do it while on course.
I can’t believe you’re friends with Tiberius Q. Dingledorf too!
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I bet Dingledorf will get many more followers after this asking for meet ups...doh!
nice Video
Yeah , finally some one has given me this hack , my biggest peeve with Zwift is that U have to restart the game , , but no more , 👍😁👍
petite bouclay, I like it
Hi Sarah, great video! Thanks!
I tried doing the "Greater London Flat" route in a meet up to get the route badge, but it didn't give me the badge at the end for some reason. Any idea?
The route is usually 11.7km, plus a 5.7km lead-in.
But when I set up the meet up it defaulted to a 12.7km distance (1km more than than the route).
So it seemed to avoid the lead-in.
But after 24mins (and 12.7km) of cycling was disappointed not to get the route badge (blue banner did not show), even after going the extra 1km!
Any idea why that might have been?!
I didn't do any U-turns, or veer off. The route was selected in the Meet Up.
Cheers 👍
As long as you pass through the banner and haven't unlocked it already it should work. Sometimes a bug in the game causes the badge not to read. This had been a long standing issue that Zwift hasn't root caused yet. Recently people have reported Zwift crediting the badge with the evidence of ride data/completion. That is a new thing, they never used to. It's an option if you have the patience for it. Definitely something to keep in mind if it happens on one of the big routes.
@@EverythingIsPhotogenic okay, great, Sarah. Thanks!
I've noticed a number of vloggers have a little power graph scrolling across the bottom of their screen. How did they get that?
Hit the G key and it will toggle it on and off. If you're on mobile, there should be a graph looking button on the action bar. Hope that helps
Is there a way to save a race (immediately after competing) then extended my session (same curse) for a cool-down (with lower power)? Yesterday I did a race and finished at the top of the volcano. I wanted to ride back down the volcano but I didn't want to impact my race average power result. Thnx.
Not directly. You have two options: 1. Use this method after the race is over or 2. Start a game session in a different world than the race to warmup, then use the prompt to bring you to the pen. That will start a new session from your warmup for the race. Once the race is over, it will ask you if you want to go back to the world you came from. If you say yes, it will end that session and move you back to the original world for a cool down or extended ride. Either way you have to purposefully manipulate your rides. The meetup option will work better for you if you want to stay within a world i.e. Watopia. Maybe just pause set the meetup and bounce to another location, it should still start a new session as the game can't write that transition to its "GPS" file.
What trainer do you use?
Have you created a video on creating your own workout? Are we able to transfer a created workout from one platform (e.g. Training Peaks) to Zwift?
I haven't done one specifically for custom workouts, but I showed the linking feature between TrainingPeaks and Zwift in this one here. I need to update it with a few other workout features including the what's on the zwift website. Here's the TP video for how to link up those two platforms and I will work on a video about how to manage ZWO files from other platforms. th-cam.com/video/N-wWaysqRvk/w-d-xo.html
@@EverythingIsPhotogenic Thank you!
I just tried this. For the first first i got the route badge, but second event none. Not even after i ride through the blue finish banner
Found the problem, didnt take the lead-in km's into count. Will try again tomorrow 😆
Sad that this is the only way to switch routes. Hard to believe Zwift hasn't fixed this. And yes, I do consider this a flaw. Thanks for the video though.
I've been in software development for decades. It's always the same story. There comes a time when you need to refactor and clean up the code without adding any new features. Management has no clue why this needs to happen so they blow it off and you wind up with a very unstable and fragile application. It's called "Jenga Syndrome".
will it still save to strava after i leave my current route?
Yep, sorry the highlights on my phone were blown out in the video, but every time you move from course to course for any type of event, it just automatically saves progress and uploads.
@@EverythingIsPhotogenic Thank you!
Great information.... thanks. Do you know how to change from pacer C to pacer B without logging out?
Not possible yet 😔 that one would be real helpful hopefully they'll add a menu block for it but I'm not holding my breath.
Tiberius, if you’re out there, please follow me on Zwift. Ride on! 🚴🏼
Hey can I invite Tiberius to my group rides?
If nobody got me, I know my boy Tiberius got me
After this video, I wonder how many new followers Tiberius will have...
🤣🤣🤣
@@EverythingIsPhotogenic welp...this morning I checked how many followers Tiberius has right after watching your video. He had 2 followers. Now he's up to 8🤣
@@ZwiftingWithGranny oh my God lol
@@EverythingIsPhotogenic - 21 followers now. :-)
@@mocat4 🤣 he doesn't even ride!
Cam Jeffers has left the chat.
What?? 🤣
On level 4.
But the friend you invite to the meetup has to follow you. Tiberius only follows you.. So I need a *new* fake friend that will follow me, and I thought a new Zwift member had only a 7-day free trial. Or is Tiberius paying for zwift?
I mentioned that in the video. You can't just invite strangers. That is why I encouraged people to make friends in group rides or on social media. The community can support one another in a mutual pursuit of advancing in the game.
Isn’t it just as easy to do a route. End it then restart. What you’re explaining seems to take a lot more time than simply ending a ride and restarting .
Takes me no more than 30 seconds to set up a meetup and quit takes over a minute to restart but to each their own
Really nice 👌 😍💋 💝💖❤️
Waah, restarting my video game takes too long.
Woow woow 😍💋 💝💖❤️
Man....... they really need to just make it so you can jump from course to course without the meet-up. Based on this video, the app obviously has the ability to do that. Very irritating.
You're totally right, it's so frustrating. I am pasting my comment to another commenter with a similar response down below, there's a long history on this. Those of us who have been around since 2015 have been through the whole story which at least helps us realize it's not that Zwift doesn't care, it is just that they grew faster and larger than they ever really thought possible:
The problem is actually the way that the game was originally coded. There wasn't a workaround to have the cache dump and it would eventually cause the game to crash. This is why the app closes out at the end of the ride rather than reverting to the main menu. There was actually a UI forthcoming in Q1 2020 and they were going to launch it during the slow season in the summer... then Covid happened. With the huge influx of new subscribers and lockdowns, they didn't want to risk launching it and have it be buggy and cause problems. Historically during the summer, there were only a few thousand riders on at a time, and they could in essence beta test the new UI... but there have been tens of thousands so they scrapped it. My suspicion is that they might even be coding a completely new program to replace Zwift original and will eventually replace it. The code they used is pretty inflexible. It's kind of like video games right? They don't just keep updating an old one, they basically start from scratch. It's definitely frustrating for us, but when you look back at how small scale this game originally was, it makes sense how they got locked into insufficient code.
@@EverythingIsPhotogenic With all that said though, I do love Zwift. With cell phone, and drug, addicted people hitting cyclists more and more, this has become my go to for riding. I miss being outside. But I don't miss being dead.
I love driving (spirited) but in all honesty, I can't wait for automated cars to take over.
Another possibility of an option would be that from the main menu, it would be cool if you could just select 2 (or 3) routes you want to chain together. As long as they start at, or close, to each other. That would also help in this situation.
@@keirinmaster "I miss being outside. But I don't miss being dead." Excellent !! (☝︎ꔸ╭͜ʖ╮ꔸ)☝︎
👉 Meh...