Mega Pretzel Epic Race This Weekend + Breakaway/The Feed Partnerships

November 1, 2023

LAST UPDATED November 1, 2023

With our Epic Series well underway, this weekend finds us on Watopia’s “The Mega Pretzel” for the third Epic Race of the series. We have six timeslots spread across Saturday and Sunday, so find one that works for you and get a long ride in!

The Breakaway + The Feed Partnerships

The Epic Series has partnered with The Breakaway app and The Feed to give you access to smarter training and fueling – both important concerns when taking on Epic rides.

The Breakaway is an app that serves as your personal performance coach. One of their newer features lets you set up a target event, which the app’s AI Coach then helps you train toward.

All of the Epic Series events are now included as target events in The Breakaway, so you can choose one and work toward performing your best! Here’s what I did to set up The Uber Pretzel Epic Race (on December 30-31) as my target event:

That that target event in place, The Breakaway’s AI Coach gives me a basic ride plan for every day of my week, and that plan auto-adjusts as I complete my actual rides. Indoors, outdoors. It. Just. Works.

The Breakaway have added a lot of new features since I originally reviewed the app back in June 2021. The app typically offers a 7-day free trial, but if you visit https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=1527105594&code=ZWIFTINSIDER on your iOS device you can get a free 30-day trial of the Breakaway app and really test it out before committing to a subscription.

So that’s the training piece. What about fueling?

First, you’ll receive an $80 TheFeed.com credit on your annual subscription to The Breakaway. Additionally, we’ve set up a direct discount with The Feed for Zwift Insider readers good for 20% off one product through the end of 2023. Code: FeedZwift20.

Mega Pretzel This Weekend!

We’ve already had some tough rides in the Epic Series, but this week is a big step up as we tackle The Mega Pretzel.

When this route was launched it was the longest route in Watopia, covering every part of the map except the Radio Tower climb. In fact, it covered nearly all roads in both directions!

This was before Alpe du Zwift was launched… or several other Watopia expansions. So this route is going to keep you in the Epic KOM, Jungle, Volcano, and Watopia proper areas for a ride distance of ~110km with 1642 meters of climbing.

Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/epicseries >

All Categories Together

To help ensure all riders have company as they race the long route, we’ve set up the event so all categories start together and are visible to each other.

Epic Race Rules

Each Epic Series race event is a standalone event (no series GC) using the following rules:

Only Feathers: only feather powerups will be given. Because mountains.
Zwift’s category-enforcing pace groups are used. Read more about that here >
Heart rate monitors are required.
Smart trainer/smart bike or power meter required. ZPower/Virtual power is not allowed.