This weekend we’ve chosen a mix of badge hunter rides, interesting races, and a rare podcast ride highlighting the upcoming Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. See details below!
🤝 Phoenix Rising Tronathon (Banded) – Itza Party
✅ Route Badge ✅ Beginner Friendly ✅ Keep Together
Grab some elevation toward your Tron bike challenge with this “keep-together” group ride on one of Watopia’s newest routes: Itza Party! At 47km with 506m of elevation, this route is no joke. But you’ll be accompanied by friends from the Phoenix Rising team, and as long as you keep pedaling, you’ll stay in the pack, no matter how hard you push.
Sunday, August 11 @ 1:15pm UTC/9:15am EDT/6:15am PDT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4470449
🥇 Tour de Stars – Stage 2 – Scorpius
✅ Popular Event
The “Tour de Stars” from Four Star Racing is a multi-stage event during the month of August. Stage 2 is on Sunday, covering 1 lap of Makuri Islands’ Temples and Towers (33.4km, 319m), and it’s already got a solid number of signups, making it the most popular race on Sunday.
You can, of course, race an individual event without completing all the stages. Each category starts separately, and the race uses standard category enforcement.
Three timeslots on Sunday, August 11
See events at https://www.zwift.com/events/tag/tourdestars
🤝 LEQP Provence Badge Hunter Series – Surrey Hills
✅ Route Badge ✅ Endurance Challenge ✅ Kit Unlock
We haven’t featured LEQP’s badge hunter series in a long time, but it was one of the first ride series to tackle less-popular routes, helping Zwifters earn badges that are tough to earn solo!
This Saturday’s ride features London’s Surrey Hills route. They’ll be doing two laps for a total ride of 83.2km and 1911m of climbing. Two pace options are available: a C group at 2.5-3.2w/kg, and a D group at 2.2-2.5w/kg.
Sunday, August 11 @ 6:30am UTC/2:30am EDT/Saturday 11:30pm PDT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4470336
🥇 Zwift Women’s Racing Series – Short Scratch – Mech Isle Loop || Using Racing Score
✅ 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 3 punchy laps of Makuri Islands’ Mech Isle Loop (12.2km, 117m). It’s gonna be all about that twisty dirt climb… can you hang on?
Saturday, August 10 @ 2:30pm UTC/10:30am EDT/7:30am PDT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4431005
🤝 Pre-Race Podcast Ride (Watch the Femmes)
✅ Beginner Friendly ✅ #watchthefemmes ✅ In-Game Audio
Zwift has a huge campaign of in-game events around the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, and that includes pre-race podcast rides from the Escape Collective starting this Sunday.
Join the ride, turn up your game audio, and listen to the podcast while you spin for 40 minutes on France’s Roule Ma Poule route. Knowing about key players and stages makes watching the race (which begins August 12) even more fun!
Hourly events starting Sunday, August 11
See upcoming rides at zwift.com/events/tag/wtfpodcastrides
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!
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