They should call the Jarvis climb Donkey Hill because it hits like two swift kicks to the chest and leaves you hee-haw hyperventilating past the banjos
Perfect over/under route. Throw a steady orange brick during the climb, keep the blob green during the descents and flats. Lather, rinse, repeat x10. Earn your recovery day
nice one ,you had a good group pushing the pace , great result , that route is no fun for sure , did that on Saturday , got dropped at 2nd time up the Kom , waited until the next Kom for peeps to proj on and collected some on the way , chilled the last lap , that was a stupid idea to do that route , only one more stupid is the PRL Full
“No need to smash it! They’ll come!” THANK YOU! I will never understand why a group of 25 to 30 needs to chase a singular rider 100m up the road at 5 W/kg.
This ride was chaos--little groups formed all over the course made up of people who were 1, 2, 3, 4 laps apart and grouping up just to get through it. The symmetry of the loop could lead to some cool event ideas, though.
It got to the point where there were so many bodies all over the place you didn't know who was in your group every time up the dumb kickers so you'd just have to go full gas and hope to be in the front of the group still!
Just poor pre race management of data on my iPhone! We were so close to the end and I was fiddling around so much I had to employ the Zwift Companion phone and put it into action before we made it to the finish line!!!
Disagree - I completed the Deca Dash today and enjoyed it. I consider it an advantage to get to know the details of a route and have the possibility to refine the strategy. Further I find it intresting to lap and get lapped
Well! I still curse the guy who decided to put 10 laps over this route !!! Done it once and never never never again !!! Speaking of crazy rides, may I interest you in Everesting? A massive group of knocked heads ' including me ' going to give it a try after a couple of weeks ..... If you're crazy enough to even consider Everesting, join us , it will be fun
Rode it Sunday at Z2/3 just to get the badge done and clean sweep towv24 routes. Never want to ride it again unless forced to in a race. Down there with PRL full or half and some others ride one time and not again others are saying. Think zwift only added route into honor their original users when it was the only road and 10th anniversary. Jarvis roads seem an after thought for now till Jarvis - jungle/ around alp road is made. Where then they serve as connector without the bridge hills.
Did this once, and only because it was in TOW. Never again. The only positive thing about this route is the near constant power ups. They really need to add a lap counter!
I'm not sure if I want to bother trying to do this route in prime time on one of the make up rides. There's no easy way to do the route but a group ride would make it slightly easier with the drafting
It might be cool to have a "Random Race" on Jarvis: a race that is made up of 3 segments, each segment 1 to 3 laps of the island, but riders aren't informed how many laps a segment is until they begin the segment. Race could be 3 laps, or 9 laps, or something in between.
Hey i just joined zwift a week ago and did not do a ftp test but zwift says my wkg is 3.4. Is that enough to tap a toe itno online racing or should i increase my noobie gains before? still have no clue where to look for races or if i even furfill some requirements if they are any. I just heard there are no more A B C D tiers and a new racing system. any tips greatly appreciated
I will probably skip Deca Desh. Feels a bit boring to ride same short loop multiple times. I will rather included 1-lap of Jarvis to a another routes like I did few days ago when I ride Volcano Flat few times.
The only motivating factor was getting the route badge XP and not having to do it solo 🤪 otherwise it would take A LOT to line that one up again for “fun”!
They should call the Jarvis climb Donkey Hill because it hits like two swift kicks to the chest and leaves you hee-haw hyperventilating past the banjos
I'm just gonna think of Shrek Donkey now all the way until I can SMASH banjo man's banjo 🤪
Love this route, one of my favourites
You are a sicko! 🤪
Perfect over/under route. Throw a steady orange brick during the climb, keep the blob green during the descents and flats. Lather, rinse, repeat x10. Earn your recovery day
@@DontGetDroppedCycling worst routes are anything plan flat!
The "WORST Route on Zwift" . . . PRL Full would like a word with you . . . 😜
Glad I never have that much free time on my hands...
@@DontGetDroppedCycling 😂 me neither.
Loved this route
You are the anomaly
Thx for showing me this route. I will never ever do this 😂
This was the one opportunity otherwise NEVERRRRRRR
nice one ,you had a good group pushing the pace , great result , that route is no fun for sure , did that on Saturday , got dropped at 2nd time up the Kom , waited until the next Kom for peeps to proj on and collected some on the way , chilled the last lap , that was a stupid idea to do that route , only one more stupid is the PRL Full
PRL Full is going to take me a full day and possible a couple of sessions while leaving Zwift running ALL DAY while I live life in between.
“No need to smash it! They’ll come!”
THANK YOU! I will never understand why a group of 25 to 30 needs to chase a singular rider 100m up the road at 5 W/kg.
It’s Zwift, that’s why!
"I thought we weren't racing"... I actually really enjoyed it, treated it as a full on interval session 😛
Makes Zwift workouts feel easy 😂
When we only have Jarvis Island in one direction, 10 laps is like non-optional...
Sad times... I would have raged quit during Beta 🤪
@@DontGetDroppedCycling 🤣 we could not be that choosy then as it was the best thing ever happened for indoor cycling... then.
This ride was chaos--little groups formed all over the course made up of people who were 1, 2, 3, 4 laps apart and grouping up just to get through it. The symmetry of the loop could lead to some cool event ideas, though.
It got to the point where there were so many bodies all over the place you didn't know who was in your group every time up the dumb kickers so you'd just have to go full gas and hope to be in the front of the group still!
Thought you took a heart attack when your camera went off Eric lol
Just poor pre race management of data on my iPhone! We were so close to the end and I was fiddling around so much I had to employ the Zwift Companion phone and put it into action before we made it to the finish line!!!
1.09 was that a bit of banjo rage? 😂
I was loosing it near the end 🤪🪕
Actually I enjoyed this route by far the most from all the other group A rides and I've done it five times already since it's been released.
Madness, I have 0 desire to do this one again… not even for that double XP 🤪
Disagree - I completed the Deca Dash today and enjoyed it. I consider it an advantage to get to know the details of a route and have the possibility to refine the strategy. Further I find it intresting to lap and get lapped
I'd love to see analytics on how many people freely ride this route from start to finish after ToW is done 🙃
I did this course to tick off the route, but wanted to ride steady, and ran out of time one lap beforevthe end, so had to do the bloody thing again 😂
Things I learned today… you can run out of time in a ToW event!!!
Amen brother
May Zwift be with you 🙏🏽
Well! I still curse the guy who decided to put 10 laps over this route !!! Done it once and never never never again !!!
Speaking of crazy rides, may I interest you in Everesting? A massive group of knocked heads ' including me ' going to give it a try after a couple of weeks ..... If you're crazy enough to even consider Everesting, join us , it will be fun
I crazy but not THAT crazy! That’s a hard pass for sureeeeeee but good luck!
@DontGetDroppedCycling let's make a poll , who wants to see Erik Everesting 🤣🤣🤣
Knowing the DGDC subscribers, you'll get 100% hell yeah
I'm with you , ten was too much 5 or 3 would have been reasonable.
Looking at the mini map was just soul crushing
Rode it Sunday at Z2/3 just to get the badge done and clean sweep towv24 routes. Never want to ride it again unless forced to in a race. Down there with PRL full or half and some others ride one time and not again others are saying. Think zwift only added route into honor their original users when it was the only road and 10th anniversary. Jarvis roads seem an after thought for now till Jarvis - jungle/ around alp road is made. Where then they serve as connector without the bridge hills.
At the end of the day any new racing routes is always a bonus! As long as people use them for races 🤪
Did this once, and only because it was in TOW. Never again. The only positive thing about this route is the near constant power ups. They really need to add a lap counter!
The back to back to back feathers were always a treat!
Glad it´s not a race so you can sit and enjoy the coffey ride in the back instead 🤪
Racing up front, Coffee ride in the back! Everything else in between ✌🏽
I'm not sure if I want to bother trying to do this route in prime time on one of the make up rides. There's no easy way to do the route but a group ride would make it slightly easier with the drafting
Gotta take advantage of the draft! Might as well start off in PT and settle in to the fast group you can handle and hold on for that badge and XP!
E, you should have combined this dumb route with a dumb workout 🤣 What were you thinking man, trying to stay with the A's from the start???
Just loaded up the next dumb workout to enjoy later this week! The longer you can stay with the A's the faster you'll get done this dumb route 🤣
late join doin this route in tour of watopis still got the credit ... never again 🤣
That's the BIG BRAIN move!
It really was nasty. I bet there’ll be a lot of 5 or 6 lap races on this loop in the future.
I don't mind passing through but that's about it!
It might be cool to have a "Random Race" on Jarvis: a race that is made up of 3 segments, each segment 1 to 3 laps of the island, but riders aren't informed how many laps a segment is until they begin the segment. Race could be 3 laps, or 9 laps, or something in between.
Did it too but, never again!
Get that badge and GET OUTTA THERE!
I think you summed that up in one word, "Dumb". Nuff said...😉
Zwift is DUMB 🤭
I just did this. Good lord it's a suckfest, but glad it's done!
in the words of Kelly Clarkson... NEVER AGAIN!
@@DontGetDroppedCycling I’d say I’d prefer the Uber Pretzel, but that’s on my TBD list too…
Glad Uber Pretzel is done for me!
@@DontGetDroppedCycling I’ve basically got all the older ones with more than 600m climbing to do, plus most of the newer additions. Ugh.
I don't complain. I stayed in my Z1/Z2 and it took me 1:54 to complete 10 laps.
The first rule of Zwift is to complain about everything 🤪
Hey i just joined zwift a week ago and did not do a ftp test but zwift says my wkg is 3.4. Is that enough to tap a toe itno online racing or should i increase my noobie gains before? still have no clue where to look for races or if i even furfill some requirements if they are any. I just heard there are no more A B C D tiers and a new racing system. any tips greatly appreciated
Always a good time to start, you gotta start sometime and start leaning! Check out zwiftinsider.com for all the Zwift info you can handle!
I will probably skip Deca Desh. Feels a bit boring to ride same short loop multiple times. I will rather included 1-lap of Jarvis to a another routes like I did few days ago when I ride Volcano Flat few times.
The only motivating factor was getting the route badge XP and not having to do it solo 🤪 otherwise it would take A LOT to line that one up again for “fun”!
@@DontGetDroppedCycling at least Team Zwift didn't named this route as an Epic Deca Dash. Actually I guess it's Epic...kinda 😬
I finished 214th on the same race nearly killed me.
But you finished and ain’t dead! Nice work 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
@@DontGetDroppedCycling fair point, but as a 52 yr old cat d, it nearly did kill me but ... but worth it to finish.
Brutal
Never EVER again!
Come on... it's hard for everyone. Good for punch training
Almost as bad as a workout!!
10 times it too much of the same thing.
Hard FACTS!
I will NEVER do this freaking route ever again. Heck, I'd rather do ADZ/Road to Sky over this route.
I'd almost go up Radio Tower...
Iy’s a homage to the original Jarvis island which was lots and lots of 4km (ish) laps
Glad I didn’t have to suffer though that 10yrs ago 😅
You are a crazyman for riding that stupid route so hard 😂 I do look forward to race on this, 4-5 laps should be good
Pretty confident it would be worse at Z2 and 4-5 laps ain’t getting you the badge 🤪
@DontGetDroppedCycling I´ve done them in zone 2 man, the last 9 aps took ages 😂
This race was terrible
Hard facts!!!
Love this route bc there is no hiding🫣
The suffering doesn't end at the top of the KOM and even after Banjo Man the rest is SHORT! Deep inside I like but 10x is madness