Tiny Race Series – June 17 Routes and Last Week’s Results

Tiny Races are never easy – even when you’re the top rider in the group! Watch Italian Luca Degre win last week’s zone 1 C category:

This Week’s Races: Up Down Up Down

This week’s routes alternate between climbing finishes and downhill finishes. You’ll need to ride strategically depending on your strengths and weaknesses!

• Race 1: Ven-Top (3.1km – ends ~100m past intersection with Petit KOM road)
  We begin with the longest climb of the day, turning right from the pens and heading straight up France’s Ventoux KOM.
  • Powerup: Feather (1x)
• Race 2: London Loop (6km – ends in Underground tunnel)
  The short climb up Northumberland Ave will stretch out the pack and provide a place for climbers to drop some sprinters. Then we’ll dash past Big Ben and over the bridge into pell-mell chaos in the Underground finish!
  • Powerup: Anvil (1x)
• Race 3: Spirit Forest (3.35km – ends partway up Temple KOM)
  This dirty, mostly-uphill route takes us on the rarely-ridden cross trail that connects both sides of the Temple KOM partway up their respective climbs. Then we’ll turn left off that trail and continue the Temple KOM for a bit, ending at a custom finish.
  • Powerup: none
• Race 4: Island Outskirts (6.2km – end after descent, on the boardwalk)
  Race from Mech Isle up the Shisa Sprint climb, then descend back down to the boardwalk for the final sprint. Timing is everything – when will you use the anvil?
  • Powerup: Anvil (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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