Tiny Race Series – May 6 Routes and Last Week’s Results

Tiny Races host some of the world’s top-ranked riders each week, and thus provide a big opportunity for racers looking to boost their ZwiftPower ranking. Last week’s zone 1 races were epic battles, with 4 of the world’s top 5 racers battling it out for the podium!

In the end Ryota Yamazaki (NeXT pb Enshored) for 1st place (ranked 2nd in the world currently), while Josh Harris (3rd ranked in the world) got 3rd. Special kudos to Christian Kaldbar, ranked 48th in the world, for finishing 2nd!

This Week’s Routes: A Taste of Urukazi

All four races this Saturday will be held on the Urukazi portion of Zwift’s Makuri Islands. Here are shots of some of the finish lines so you know what to expect:

• Race 1: Bridges and Boardwalks (5.051km, ends at Shisa Sprint)
  Ride over to the Boardwalk Sprint to pick up your feather, then wind your way up to Urukazi’s highest post – the Shisa Sprint bridge – for the big finish!
  • Powerup: Feather (1x)
• Race 2: Mech Isle Loop (1 Lap, 4km)
  The shortest Makuri Island route makes for a great short race with its climb section and mixture of dirt and paved roads. What bike will you use?
  • Powerup: none
• Race 3: Island Outskirts (6.2km, end on boardwalk after descent)
  Race from Mech Isle up the other side of the Shisa Sprint climb, but this time we’ll descend back down to the boardwalk for a super fast final sprint. Timing is everything – when will you use the anvil?
  • Powerup: Anvil (1x)
• Race 4: Island Hopper (7.35km, end on bridge atop Mech Isle climb)
  We’ve put our longest race of the day last, just in case the D’s need a bit more time. This one ends at the bridge atop the Mech Isle Loop climb.
  • Powerup: Steamroller (1x)

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ZwiftPower Results

Zwift displays preliminary race results in game when you cross the line, but points are computed after all four races are finished, with final results on ZwiftPower. (We have to do some data processing on our side to compute results, so if your rankings don’t show up right away, be patient.)

Riders will earn points based on finish position in each of the 4 Tiny Races. The category winner of each week’s series is the rider with the most points across their timezone’s 4 races. Here are the links for each timezone’s results on ZwiftPower:

• Zone 1 (9am GMT/5am EDT/2am PDT)
• Zone 2 (3pm GMT/11am EST/8am PDT)
• Zone 3 (9pm GMT/5pm EDT/2pm PDT/Sunday 7am AEST)

Rules

Tiny Race rules are simple, but still every week 7-10% of registered ZwiftPower racers get disqualified and removed from the final results. Don’t let that be you! Four races, four rules:

• You must have a ZwiftPower account, because final results are processed by ZwiftPower (learn how to sign up)
• No skipping then returning. These races are meant to be raced as a set of 4. If you need to leave early, that’s fine… but once you miss a race in your hour’s set of 4, don’t come back and race another or you’ll be disqualified from that race since you rested while others were racing! (Example: racing only races 1 and 2 is fine. Racing 1, 2, and 4 is not – you will be DQ from race 4. And if you race 2, 3, and 4, you’ll be DQ from all those races, since you skipped race 1!)
• Heart rate monitors are required for podium finishers
• ZPower/Virtual power is not allowed. Smart trainer/smart bike or power meter required.

Join a Chat & Chill Cooldown

Immediately following each hour’s racing, we’ve scheduled 30-minute “Chat & Chill” events where riders from all categories can spin their legs together and chat about how it all went down. Find them at zwift.com/events/tag/tinyraces.

Zwift Insider Kit Unlock

Finish any Tiny Race or a Chat & Chill ride and unlock the Zwift Insider “Ride Smarter // Ride Harder” in-game kit.

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