This weekend’s event picks include two rides on routes from the Route Chaser Challenge. If you’re hunting for more XP, check ’em out! We’ve also got some unique rides and banded sessions… a little something for everyone.
🤝 Bikealicious Climbalicious
✅ Banded ✅ Route Chaser
This banded ride on Watopia’s Spiral Into the Volcano (55.8km, 336m) lets you ride at whatever pace you’d like, while hanging with the group. Get some elevation in while enjoying the friendly and welcoming Bikealicious atmosphere!
Bonus: this route is one of three on Zwift’s Route Chaser Challenge, so if you complete it, you’ll pick up a healthy XP bonus!
Sunday, May 24 at 6pm UTC/2pm ET/11am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5589778
🤝 (Rubber-Banded) Ride with James’ Friends!
✅ Beginner-Friendly ✅ Banded
Join Zwift’s James Bailey and friends for this beginner-friendly rubberbanded ride on Watopia’s Volcano Climb (23.1km, 203m), another Route Chaser Challenge route! You’ll ride for 60 minutes, which should be more than enough to finish this 25.8km route with 319m of elevation gain.
Remember, this is a banded ride, so you can ride at any pace you’d like. As long as you keep pedaling, you’ll stay with the group!
Saturday, May 23 @ 12:30pm UTC/8:30am ET/5:30am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5588830
🤝WOW – High Speed Ride on TT bikes with draft
✅ Fast Miles ✅ Upgrade Hack ✅ Unique Event
Want to accumulate lots of miles quickly? Join this popular group ride, which puts everyone on the fastest TT bike in game (Cadex Tri with DT Swiss disc wheels) with drafting enabled. It’s 100km, but it’ll be a fast 100km!
Riders are on Tempus Fugit this week – the flattest route on Zwift! Four different pace groups are offered, released so the faster groups catch the slower groups over time.
Bike upgrading hack: on rides with forced bikes, whatever bike you’re on when you join the event is the bike that accumulates the distance/elevation/time. So, for example, you could accumulate lots of distance toward a gravel bike upgrade while riding the Cadex Tri in this event.
Sunday, May 24 @ 12:45pm UTC/8:45am ET/5:45am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5589700
🤝 Phoenix Rising Tronathon (Banded)
✅ Route Badge ✅ Beginner Friendly ✅ Banded
If you have yet to climb Alpe du Zwift, consider this event for your first attempt. This is a banded ride, so as long as you keep pedaling, you’ll stay in the pack, no matter how hard you push.
This week, the group is taking on Watopia’s Road to Sky route (17.4km, 1045m).
Sunday, May 24 @ 1:15pm UTC/9:15am ET/6:15am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5589713
🤝 Shimano Super Cycling Sunday
✅ Popular ✅ Special Guests ✅ Unlocks
Always a popular event, Shimano’s weekly series runs through the end of the year. Rides typically feature special guests, including WorldTour riders! Finishers unlock the Shimano Super Cycling Sunday kit and Lazer Sphere helmet.
This is an open-paced ride on 1 lap of France’s Douce France route (24.6km, 133m).
Sunday, May 24 @ 8am UTC/4am ET/1am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5552920
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!
