The Tour de France kicks off tomorrow (Saturday, July 5), and our top two picks for the weekend are race series which kick off on Saturday as well!
We’ve also sprinkled in some beginner-friendly group rides. See our picks below…
🥇 2025 SISU Tour – Stage 1
✅ Unique Event ✅ Endurance Challenge
The 7-stage SISU Tour kicks off on Saturday with a scratch race on 1 lap of Bon Voyage (31.4km 155m), and these races have more signups than any other on Zwift’s public calendar.
Read all about SISU Tour 2025 >
This is SISU’s largest annual race event, and this year is the fourth edition. Come see what all the fuss is about!
15 timeslots on Saturday, July 5
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/sisutour
🥇 ECRO Chasing Yellow – Stage 1
✅ Unique Event ✅ Endurance Challenge
If the 7-stage SISU Tour isn’t long enough for you, how about a 21-stage tour that follows the same schedule as the men’s Tour de France?
Read all about Chasing Yellow 2025 >
Chasing Yellow kicks off on Saturday with a rolling opener on Sand and Sequoias (42.5km, 352m). Run by the innovative ECRO platform, this race encourages teamwork.
Multiple timeslots on Saturday, July 5
Learn more at ecro.app
🤝 Cheesecake for Breakfast
✅ Endurance Challenge ✅ Pace Options ✅ Chase
Look, I’ll be honest – I mostly picked this event because I’ve just finished my own 100km ride (the Thursday Pizza Burner) and I’d love some cheesecake.
But this is also a unique sort of ride, and one worth mentioning. This event offers two different pace categories (2.7-3.2 and 3.5-4.5). Both groups ride the Eastern Eight route for 100km, but the faster group starts several minutes after the slower group, making it a sort of chase race/group ride.
Sunday, July 6 at 5:05pm UTC/1:05pm ET/10:05am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5037315
🤝 ¡HISPerame!
✅ Route Badge ✅ Beginner-Friendly ✅ Popular Event ✅ Banded Ride
Looking for a group ride on a route you haven’t ridden yet? This popular event is held on the NYC KOM After Party route and is 60 minutes long. While the stated pace is only 1.2-1.7 W/kg, it’s a banded ride, so you can go as hard (or easy) as you’d like, and you’ll stay with the group.
Note: If you want to finish the route, you’ll probably need to keep riding once the 60 minutes are up, since this route is 37 km long with 480 m of climbing.
Saturday, July 5 @ 4pm UTC/12pm ET/9am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5036513
🤝 Bikealicious Weekend Social Mixer
✅ Banded Ride ✅ Beginner-Friendly
The friendly Bikealicious crew is leading a banded group ride on the Richmond Loop Around route. At 42.7km with 556m of climbing this is not a short route. But with the ride being banded, everyone can ride at whatever effort they’d like, and the group will stay together. Ride on!
Saturday, July 5 @ 4pm UTC/12pm ET/9am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5036546
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!
