The Tour de France is well underway, and events on Zwift help us feel a part of it all! See our two TdF picks below, as well as some featured races and a popular double draft group ride.
🤝 Climb Portal Challenges: Pla d’Adet and Col de Peyresourde (Avajan)
✅ New Roads ✅ Unique Event ✅ Kit Unlock ✅ Popular Event
As the Tour de France continues, Zwift is holding group ride events in the Climb Portal so we can climb the same mountains as the pros!
Saturday we’re on Pla d’Adet, and Sunday we’re on Col de Peyresourde (Avajan). (Tip: don’t be tricked by the stated distance of 9.2km with 33 meters of climbing! These aren’t correct values, which isn’t surprising since Zwift has never featured events in the Climb Portal before.) The actual length of the climbs is:
- Pla d’Adet: 12.1km, 847m elevation
- Col de Peyresourde (Avajan): 8.3km, 559m elevation
Hourly events on Saturday and Sunday
Pla d’Adet events: zwift.com/events/tag/climbportalevent4
Col de Peyresourde (Avajan) events: zwift.com/events/tag/climbportalevent5
🤝 TdF Stage 13 and 14 Podcast Rides with THEMOVE
✅Spoilers ✅ Podcast ✅ Unique Event
These events aren’t seeing a lot of signups, but we love the concept of podcast rides based on current IRL events! As the event description says, “Follow the excitement of the tour with THEMOVE podcast hosted by Lance Armstrong, George Hincapie and JB Hager. There will be SPOILERS in the podcast rides, proceed with caution.”
These events are 60-minute group rides, open-paced without ride leaders, and held on France routes.
Multiple timeslots Saturday and Sunday
See upcoming events at zwift.com/events/tag/themove
🤝 Cycle Nation Endurance Ride
✅ Endurance Challenge ✅ Popular Event ✅ Double Draft
Looking for a long group outing? Join the popular Cycle Nation Endurance Ride, which has three different length options, each with its own pace and route. Rides use double draft to keep riders together, and they’re held on flat routes. Each category has its own ride leader, too.
Sunday, July 14 @ 4am UTC/12am EDT/Saturday 9pm PDT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4442100
🥇 2024 SISU Racing Tour – Stage 5
✅ Unique Event ✅ Kit Unlock ✅ Popular Event
The SISU Tour is a popular 7-stage race event, and Stage 5 is a mountain stage this Saturday on Watopia’s Shorelines and Summits.
Reminder: all categories start together in these races, so be ready to push hard out of the gate!
Read all about SISU Tour 2024 >
Multiple events on Saturday, July 13
See upcoming events at zwift.com/events/tag/sisu
🥇 Zwift Women’s Racing Series – Short Scratch – Mountain Mash || Using Racing Score
✅ Racing Score ✅ Women Only
Did you know Zwift’s popular Women’s Racing Series is using racing score for categorization?
Read more about Racing Score >
Read more about the Women’s Racing Series >
This Saturday is your last chance to finish this week’s stage, which is a scratch race on Watopia’s Mountain Mash. (It’s a scratch race, but it might as well be an iTT, since it’s all up hill! Bring your lightest climbing bike.)
Saturday, July 13 @ 2:30pm UTC/10:30am EDT/7:30am PDT
Sign up at https://www.zwift.com/events/view/4430924
How We Make Our Picks
We choose each weekend’s Notable Events based on a variety of factors including:
- Is the event unique/innovative in some way?
- Are celebrities (pro riders, etc) attending/leading?
- Are signup counts already high, meaning the event is extra-popular?
- Does the ride include desirable unlocks or prizes?
- Does the event appeal to ladies on Zwift? (We like to support this under-represented group!)
- Is it for a good cause?
- Is it just plain crazy (extra long races, world record attempts, etc)?
- Is it a long-running, popular weekly event with a dedicated leader who deserves a shout out?
In the end, we want to call attention to events that are extra-special and therefore extra-appealing to Zwifters. If you think your event qualifies, comment below with a link/details and we may just include it in an upcoming post!
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