“After Party” ZRacing April Series Details

Zwift’s “ZRacing” is the platform’s most popular ongoing race series, and it continues to evolve as we head into April 2025. Here are the changes Zwift is rolling out this month:

• Advanced Event Schedule Expansion: advanced races now happen every other hour, to increase availability.
• Advanced Event Minimum Score Requirement: to avoid riders joining these events in order to tank their scores, Advanced events are now “category enforced” at 650+, meaning you must have a racing score of 650+ to join.
• Advanced Event HRM Requirement: this isn’t really a new requirement, but lower-category events no longer require a heart rate in order to join. Zwift says requiring HRM “will bring the events into line with the minimum criteria to feature on ZwiftPower and is the first of a number of additional fairness measures we hope to add to Advanced events over the coming year.”
• Range 2 modification: these events now top out at 725 (up from 700). Zwift says “We hope this will provide racers with scores of 650-725 with a softer ‘Advanced’ transition.”
• Zwift.com-Based GC Leaderboards: an upgraded version of the Zwift Games leaderboards will be used for tracking the monthly ZRacing GC. More on this below…

For April, the series takes on “after party” routes which feature a climb in the final kilometers. Also, there’s a yet-to-be-revealed new route (on new roads!) for us to race in stage 5, April 28-May 4! Watch this space for more news on this front.

Read on for details about this month’s race routes and more!

April’s Routes

Here are the routes we’ll be racing in April:

• Stage 1 (Mar 31-Apr 6): Power to the Portal with Oude Kwaremont
  • Custom Length (22.2km, 166m)
  • Powerups: Feather, Draft
• Stage 2 (Apr 7-13): Neon After Party
  • 1 lap (17.3km, 142m elevation)
  • Powerups: Draft, Aero
• Stage 3 (Apr 14-20): LaGuardia After Party
  • 1 lap (20.8km, 300m)
  • Powerups: Feather, Aero
• Stage 4 (Apr 21-27): Queen’s Highway After Party
  • 1 lap (19.8km, 301m)
  • Powerups: Feather, Anvil
• Stage 5 (April 28-May 4): Hell of the North
  • 1 lap (20.2km, 241m)
  • Powerups: Feather, Draft

See upcoming Range 1 “After Party” events >
See upcoming Range 2 “After Party” events >
See upcoming Advanced “After Party” events >
See ALL upcoming “After Party” events >

New GC Leaderboards

Zwift debuted new web-based leaderboards at zwift.com for tracking the Zwift Games 2025 GC, and an upgraded version of those leaderboards will now be put to work for use in the monthly ZRacing series!

Access April’s leaderboard at zwift.com/racing/leagues/zracingapr2025 >

Your GC ranking is based on your best finishing time for each stage, and you can race each stage multiple times if you’d like.

Choose Your Category

Zwift now schedules three different flavors of ZRacing events in order to encourage “Fairer, more competitive racing for everyone.” They each use different racing score ranges for categorization and are titled Advanced, Range 1, and Range 2. Click banners below to see upcoming events for each.

Get the Badge

Each month’s ZRacing series has a unique achievement badge, which you can unlock by finishing every stage for the month. There are no makeup events, so if you miss a stage, you miss out on the badge and competing in the GC.

One and Done

Zwift has planned these events to deliver a solid 1-hour workout, so each race should only take around 1 hour to complete, including your warmup and cooldown.

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