This weekend’s notable events list have a clear theme – the Tour of Watopia! We’re featuring ToW events, and some events using ToW routes which award double XP. We’ve also got kickoff rides to a new race series and group ride series. See all the details below!
🤝🥇 Tour of Watopia
✅ Popular ✅ Unlocks ✅ Double XP
Zwift’s first big tour of the 2026/27 season kicked off this week with the first of five stages. You can free-ride the routes whenever you’d like, or race them… but the biggest turnouts are for the group rides. Highly recommended.
Learn all about Tour of Watopia 2026 >
The category you sign up for (A, B, or C) determines the route and length of your ride. This week that means 42.2km, 22.4km, and 13km respectively.
Hourly events all weekend
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/tourofwatopia2026
🥇 Tour Ignite – Stages 7 & 8
✅ Popular ✅ Daily Stage Race ✅ Unique
By far the most popular races happening this weekend, the final two stages of Flamme Rouge Racing’s 8-stage Tour Ignite happen on Saturday and Sunday. These are points races, so be sure to read the event description and the rules to understand how they are scored!
Learn more about Tour Ignite on FRR’s site >
Stage 7 is on Watopia’s Watts of the Wild (42.2km, 308m) – a Tour of Watopia route offering double XP. Stage 8, meanwhile, is the Queen Stage and final stage, on Watopia’s Three Step Sisters (38.1km, 586m).
Multiple timeslots this weekend
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/frr
🥇La Cyclo MedioFondo Foudre
✅ Kickoff Event ✅ Popular ✅ Long Race ✅ Age-Based
Team Foudre’s weekly “medio fondo” proved quite popular last season, with its age-based groupings and a women-only category, and this weekend the series kicks off again! It will run every Sunday through the winter.
The first race of the series is on Paris’ Paris Toujours route (72.3km, 459m).
Sunday, October 11 @ 7:45am UTC/3:45am ET/12:45am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5733991
🤝 (Rubber-Banded) Ride with James’ Friends!
✅ ToW Route ✅ Beginner-Friendly ✅ Banded
Join Zwift’s James Bailey and friends for this beginner-friendly rubberbanded ride on Watopia’s Watts of the Wild (42.2km, 308m), a Tour of Watopia route awarding double XP! You’ll ride for 60 minutes, which probably won’t get you to the end of the route… so keep going to get ToW stage credit.
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, October 10 @ 12:30pm UTC/8:30am ET/5:30am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5729607
🤝 MSR | Season opening
✅ Beginner-Friendly ✅ Kit Unlock ✅ Popular
Here’s a new group ride to help you train for the Mecklenburger Seen Round, a 300km “bike marathon” happening May 2027. Even if you aren’t going to ride the MSR, you can use this series to help you build the endurance needed for any upcoming long ride.
This week’s ride is 60 minute long, on Makuri Islands’ Urumaze route.
Saturday, October 10 @8am UTC/4am ET/1am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5715732
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!
