This weekend we’ve chosen two races using the new Zwift Racing Score. We’re also highlighting the three longest events of the week, each topping out at 100 miles!
🥇 Tiny Races with Custom Bands
✅ Racing Score ✅ Custom Bands ✅ Kit Unlock
Saturday’s Tiny Races are some of the very first events to use a custom set of Zwift Racing Score-based bands to group riders. Why? Because we think it makes racing more interesting when packs get “mixed up” so you’re not always the weaker or stronger rider in the race.
See the Tiny Race homepage for route details.
Multiple timeslots Saturday
See upcoming events at zwift.com/events/tag/tinyraces
🥇 Zwift Women’s Racing Series – Short Scratch – Oh Hill No || Using Racing Score
✅ FTP Test ✅ Racing Score ✅ Women Only
The latest round of Zwift’s popular Women’s Racing Series is well underway, and using the new Zwift Racing Score metric for categorization.
This Saturday is your last chance to finish this week’s stage, which is a shorter scratch race on Watopia’s Oh Hill No (8.1km, 305m). You’ll want to warm up well for this race, as it takes you straight up the FTP-testing “The Grade” from the start pens! Why not make this event do double duty and treat it as both an FTP test and a race? Allez allez!
Saturday, July 27 @ 2:30pm UTC/10:30am EDT/7:30am PDT
Sign up at http://zwift.com/events/view/4430988
🤝 Ascenders Team Sunday Mission
✅ Kit Unlock ✅ Legacy Leader ✅ Endurance Challenge
The first of our long group rides is from the Ascenders team. Everyone starts together and rides at the same pace (1-2.8 W/kg), but the A group goes for 100 miles while the B group goes for 100km.
This week’s route is Watopia’s Big Flat 8.
Sunday, July 28 @ 12pm UTC/8am EDT/5am PDT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4455261
🤝 DiRT Road DWGZ Hot Hundo (100 Miles)
✅ Legacy Leader ✅ Endurance Challenge ✅ Kit Unlock
Build your base/endurance with the DIRT crew! This ride is held on Watopia’s Triple Flat Loops at a pace of 2.7-3.2 W/kg, and the event description says the pace typically results in a 4 hour to 4:10 completion time. This ride also gets the prize for “most unique start time” this weekend.
Saturday, July 27 @ 11:17am UTC/7:17am EDT/3:17am PDT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4454480
🤝 The BMTR Fundo
✅ Popular Ride ✅ Legacy Leader ✅ Endurance Challenge ✅ Kit Unlock
A regularly-featured event here on Zwift Insider, the BMTR Fundo consistently gets lots of joiners because it’s well-led and run consistently week after week, year after year.
This week’s ride is on Greatest London Flat. You have four distance groups to choose from, all the way up to 100 miles. Doubledraft is enabled to help the pack stay together.
Saturday, July 27 @ 12:10pm UTC/8:10am EDT/5:10am PDT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4454500
How We Make Our Picks
We choose each weekend’s Notable Events based on a variety of factors including:
- Is the event unique/innovative in some way?
- Are celebrities (pro riders, etc) attending/leading?
- Are signup counts already high, meaning the event is extra-popular?
- Does the ride include desirable unlocks or prizes?
- Does the event appeal to ladies on Zwift? (We like to support this under-represented group!)
- Is it for a good cause?
- Is it just plain crazy (extra long races, world record attempts, etc)?
- Is it a long-running, popular weekly event with a dedicated leader who deserves a shout out?
In the end, we want to call attention to events that are extra-special and therefore extra-appealing to Zwifters. If you think your event qualifies, comment below with a link/details and we may just include it in an upcoming post!
