Tiny Race Series – September 2 Routes and Last Week’s Results

The Tiny Races happen every Saturday, and they’re all about getting a hard, fun effort done in 1 hour. You’re meant to race all 4 races back-to-back, with each lasting just 5-10 minutes, giving you a short break in between.

B racer Eric Barnett took on his first-ever Tiny Races last week, and streamed the fun for all to enjoy. “This is some real deal suffering…” He finished 7 overall in Zone 2 – not a bad start:

Got a great YouTube video of your Tiny Race experience? Post it in the comments and we may feature it on Zwift Insider!

This Week’s Routes: Variations on a Loop

This week all four races are on Watopia’s Two Bridges Loop route, but each race is longer than the one before. Begin with a short race to the JWB Sprint Reverse line and end with a full loop of the route. Each race’s finish varies from the others, appealing to the strengths of different riders!

Pro tip: you’ll want to understand how the recently-updated Anvil powerup works, since its use will play a crucial role this weekend.

• Race 1: Two Bridges Loop (2.832km, ending at JWB Sprint Reverse)
  A super-short start, this is going to be a VO2 blast with riders attacking from the gun. Will you use your anvil to attack early, or to boost your sprint?
  • Powerup: Anvil (1x)
• Race 2: Two Bridges Loop (5.62km, ending atop climb)
  Here’s one for the puncheurs, with the finish line atop this route’s key ascent.
  • Powerup: Anvil (2x)
• Race 3: Two Bridges Loop (6.37km, ending on bridge after descent)
  This is a finish line we’ve never used before! Hit the key climb, descend the backside, and finish at high speed on the overpass bridge. Proper anvil use will be crucial here.
  • Powerup: Anvil (2x)
• Race 4: Two Bridges Loop (1 lap, 7.3km)
  We finish with the full loop, ending in an all-out sprint.
  • Powerup: Anvil (2x)

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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 6-8% 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.
• Smart trainer/smart bike or power meter required. ZPower/Virtual power is not allowed.

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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