The Chasing Tour Series is well underway: the first year-long Zwift racing calendar ever organized on the platform (read all about it here). Tomorrow the biggest stage race of the series kicks off! Running alongside the Tour de France, Chasing Yellow is an 18-stage race where riders race daily between July 4-23, with just 2 rest days on the schedule.
Schedule Details
Each race is scheduled at 4 different times throughout the day, so you can find a slot that works for you. You don’t need to race the same timeslot each day.
- 9:30 UTC / 5:30 EDT / 2:30 PDT
- 12:00 UTC / 8:00 EDT / 5:00 PDT
- 18:00 UTC / 14:00 EDT / 11:00 PDT
- 0:00 UTC / 20:00 EDT / 17:00 PDT
See all upcoming Chasing Tour events at zwift.com/events/tag/chasingtour >
Stage Details
- Jul-04 Stage 1:Petit Boucle (40.0k / 271m)
- Jul-05 Stage 2: Achterbahn (47.6k / 1046m)
- Jul-06 Stage 3: Three Sisters (42.0k / 878m)
- Jul-07 Stage 4: Turf N Surf (35.0k / 234m)
- Jul-08 Stage 5: Astoria Line 8 (46.4k / 566m)
- Jul-09 Stage 6: La Reine (22.9k / 1205m)
- Jul-11 Stage 7: The Muckle Yin (40.0k / 462m)
- Jul-12 Stage 8: Sand and Sequoias (42.7k / 353m)
- Jul-13 Stage 9: Harrogate Circuit Reverse (41.4k / 734m)
- Jul-14 Stage 10: Tour of Fire and Ice (28.1k / 1187m)
- Jul-15 Stage 11: Surrey Hills (48.0k / 1046m)
- Jul-16 Stage 12: The Highline (42.0k / 739m)
- Jul-18 Stage 13 (ITT): Greater London 8 (24.3k / 278m)
- Jul-19 Stage 14: Climber’s Gambit (28.0k / 667m)
- Jul-20 Stage 15: Makuri 40 (40.3k / 317m)
- Jul-21 Stage 16: Rolling Highlands (40.9k / 337m)
- Jul-22 Stage 17: 2019 UCI Worlds Harrogate Circuit (41.6k / 735m)
- Jul-23 Stage 18: Champs-Élysées (49.5k / 292m)
Rules & Categories
Chasing Tour rules are quite simple:
- Riders must be registered on ZwiftPower (learn how to sign up)
- Heart rate monitors required
- No ZPower riders
Categorization is different than typical Zwift races, since the Chasing Tour is using the zwiftracing.app ranking system to provide categorization. Riders should sign up for the category that corresponds to their zwiftracing.app rank:
- A: Platinum, Challenge, Champion, Grand Champion
- B: Gold
- C: Silver
- D: Bronze
All categories will start at the same time and be visible to each other during the race. Categories are used at signup so riders can see their competition.
If you need help determining your category, see the CATEGORIES section of the Rules & Scoring page.
GC Competition
In addition to the individual race competition, Chasing Yellow (and all other stage races in the Chasing Series) has a GC competition:
- Stage races evaluate a rider’s combined time over the course of multiple stages (race events).
- In an effort time normalize times across multiple time zones a time gap system will be used.
- The 1st placed rider in a race event will earn a time gap of 00:00:00s.
- Each following rider’s time gap will be calculated as a difference from the first rider’s time (ie: +00:00:05s).
- The time gap logic will apply to each race event time zone.
- Riders will then be globally ranked based on their overall combined time gaps throughout the tour. The rider with the lowest overall combined time gap finishing in 1st.
- If a rider misses a stage they are given the last finishing time for the stage.
- Riders must complete the minimum required amount of stages within a GC competition to qualify for GC competition points. This is generally at least 80% of the stages.
- Don’t worry if you miss a stage, riders still earn points from the individual race events they complete within a stage race.
Prizes
Tour sponsor The Breakaway will provide grand prizes for each main tour (Chasing Pink, Chasing Yellow, Chasing Femmes, and Chasing Red).
Additionally, each 8-week or all-time PR earned on The Breakaway during each tour will earn you a virtual ticket for a raffle at the end of that tour. The more PR’s you get, the more chances to win!
For each tour, three finishers will be selected at random to receive:
- A Zwift Hub smart trainer
- A Hammerhead Karoo 2
- A $200 Gift Certificate to The Feed
Questions or Comments?
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Quick note, with the changes on zwiftracing.app which changed some category boundaries, those pens would look more like this for new riders (if you’ve already raced a CT event, then nothing changes, obviously)
🔴 A — (A) vELO 1801+ (was Plat and higher)
🟢 B — (B) vELO 1201 – 1800 (was Gold)
🔵 C — (C) vELO 601 – 1200 (was Silver)
🟡 D — (D) vELO 0 – 600 (was Bronze)
(This is mainly captured in the discord btw https://discord.gg/2AdnXstGAP if people want to jump in there)
I feel anybody interested in Chasing Yellow should be aware that the racers participating in the year-long Chasing series have experienced some significant issues with the series. Although the rules and series initially appeared to be well thought out, and a slick website accompanied the start of the series, we only received results & standings updates once per week starting the second week of Chasing Pink. Since then we haven’t received *any* results/standings, nor any communication whatsoever from the promoter, in the past five weeks for the ongoing Chasing Tuesdays series. Events for that series have also been set up completely haphazardly, with no course info or even ability to register until hours before the events and the “races” being set up as group rides with no ZP results/credit, coffee stops allowed, and no category or rules enforcement of any type.
In effect the promoter completely checked out on the series and participants a couple months ago, so just please be aware that while from all outward appearances the whole thing looks very slick and appealing, unfortunately the execution hasn’t lived up to most of the racers’ hopes, and this has unfortunately resulted in a dramatic drop-off in participation.
Hey everyone, event organizer here. Chasing Yellow is our grand tour of the season and everyone is ready and eager for it to kick off tomorrow.
Thank you for posting this. After registering and completing stage 1 my results never showed up in the standings, so there was no point in starting stage 2 hoping they would figure things out. I’m not sure why an organizer would go the the effort of developing a website, hosting a year long series and then not care enough to provide standings properly if at all.
Results posting has caught up now, and is back to regular. There was a big lull, but happily working quite nicely now. Cheers
Website showing first stage two start slots results If you do the later starts there could be a delay with showing up on the website due it is night and they have a busy life or sleeping to process results right away. There has to verification of people start in right pens and making sure math for points/time gaps is right. This is CT first year of doing this season long series. So there is building the system as it goes and making sure it works with results processing. I do FRR races as well they had the same issues with website plus in their first year as does any long series organizer in their first year. First year build and learn, second year refine, then hopefully third year it just works.