After Sunday’s thrilling Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift finish, we have to feature the Alpe Celebration Rides once more this week. But we’ve also got three popular stage races on tap, and a long, beginner-friendly group ride!
🤝 #watchthefemmes Alpe Celebration Rides
✅ Unique Event ✅ Prize Spinner ✅ Kit Unlock
Last Sunday, the final stage of this year’s Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift ended on the iconic Alpe d’Huez. And what a stage it was!
Zwift has been holding events on Alpe du Zwift all week to celebrate. Rides have 5 pace categories to choose from, with a Robopacer joining each group to ride at the stated pace.
Finish the ride to unlock the new 2024 Watch the Femmes Kit, and you’ll also get to spin the Watch The Femmes spinner at the top for extra surprise unlocks featuring WtF kit collections from 2024 and past years!
Lots of events through August 25 (UTC)
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/alpecelebration
🥇 Zwift Women’s Racing Series – ITT – Loch Loop || Using Racing Score
✅ Racing Score ✅ Women Only
This week featured the final race of the Women’s Racing Series, and it’s the race of truth! An individual time trial on 2 laps of Scotland’s Loch Loop for a total distance of 16km. Bring your fastest TT rig!
Saturday, August 24 @ 2:30pm UTC/10:30am EDT/7:30am PDT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4431018
🤝 Vikings Valhalla Sunday Skaal Ride
✅ Endurance Challenge ✅ Beginner-Friendly ✅ Unique Event
We’ve featured this event several times in the past, as it’s always well-attended and well-led, at a pace that helps everyone stay together. Experienced leaders and sweepers do their best to keep the groups together with the help of doubledraft and a zapping fence, so everyone can work together to knock out a long ride!
This week’s ride is held at a 1.7-2.2 W/kg pace on Electric Loop for a total length of 103km.
Sunday, August 25 @ 7:05am UTC/3:05am EDT/12:05am PDT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4482508
🥇STAGE 6 TOUR DE HISP 2024
✅ Route Badge
The Spanish HISP club is holding its popular Tour de Hisp, a 15-day tour featuring 13 different stages. This Saturday’s race features Watopia’s newish Itza Party route (45.7km, 498m), so even if you haven’t been taking part in the tour, you can jump in and try out this fresh route and get the route badge plus bonus XP!
Four timeslots Saturday, August 24
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/hisp
🥇 Tour de Stars – Stage 6 – Polaris
✅ Popular Event
The “Tour de Stars” from Four Star Racing is a multi-stage event during the month of August. Stage 6 is on Sunday, covering 1 lap of Watopia’s Triple Flat Loops (36.3km, 134m), 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 25
See events at zwift.com/events/tag/tourdestars
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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