Tour de Zwift 2025 headlines our picks once again this week, but we have other popular or interesting rides featured as well. This includes women’s mini races, a tough route bagger challenge, and two Sweden-based rides open to all.
🤝 Tour de Zwift – Stage 2
✅ Popular Event ✅ Kit Unlock
Tour de Zwift, the biggest ride series on the platform, is underway, and hundreds of riders have been turning out for each event! Stage 2 is available through the end of the weekend, with these route options:
- Long Ride: Snowman, 1 lap (44km, 578m)
- Standard Ride: Temples and Towers, 1 lap (33.4km, 280m)
- Short Ride: Outer Scotland, 2 laps (22.3km, 198m) * new route
- Run: Titans Run, 1 lap (5.9km)
Read all about Tour de Zwift 2025 >
Are these races? Not officially, but the front of each ride will surely be spicey. Read about me racing stage 2’s short ride, then ride it at whatever pace you’d like!
Hourly events this weekend
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/tdz2025
🥇Ultimate Women’s Mini Races – Smokin Hot!!!
✅ Punchy Race ✅ Unique Event
Women’s Mini Races (3 races in an hour) happen each Sunday, but the ULTIMATE Mini Races are a bigger monthly event organized by Vinnette Powell of Team eSRT. If you’re looking for some punchy women-only racing, check out these events.
This Sunday’s races are smokin’ hot on Volcano Circuit, Volcano Circuit CCW, and Volcano Flat Reverse. Two time zones available.
Sunday, January 19 @ 7pm UTC/2pm ET/11am PT
and @ 3pm UTC/10am ET/7am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/esrt
🤝Velos – Route Bagger Challenge
✅ Route Badge ✅ Beginner Friendly ✅ Endurance Challenge
Some of Zwift’s route badges feature longish routes, and it’s a lot more fun to finish these routes with friends! Team Velos holds a monthly Route Bagger Challenge ride to help you “tackle the hardest Zwift routes.”
This Saturday’s ride features Watopia’s Power to the Tower route (45.6km, 1496m). The leader will set a steady pace around 1.9-2.1w/kg, so expect the ride to take approximately 2.5 hours.
Saturday, January 18 @ 3pm UTC/10am EDT/7am PDT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4682074
🤝 Bauhaus Spin of Hope
✅ Great Cause ✅ Popular Event
I love charity rides that donate more for each rider who participates! The translated text (originally in Swedish) from this event says:
Cycle for the benefit of the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation together with us, SCF and Wahoo. For every kilometer you cycle during this event, BAUHAUS donates SEK 10 to the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation, up to one million SEK in total!
Crunching the numbers, if we assume riders cover 35km in the hour-long event, that means each rider results in a donation of 350 SEK, so we would need 2,857 riders to finish in order to hit the one million SEK limit. Can we do it? (We’ve had bigger charity rides in the past… but they were also better-publicized…)
This ride is 60 minutes long, on Watopia’s Triple Flat Loops.
Saturday, January 18 @ 9am UTC/4am EDT/1am PDT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4735438
🤝 Vatternrundan Group Ride Series #2
✅ Popular Event ✅ Endurance Challenge ✅ Kit Unlock
It looks like we have not just one but two popular Swedish rides this weekend, because the Vätternrundan group ride series is back for another year! The premise of the series is simple: rides gradually increase in duration, with the goal of preparing you to handle many hours on the bike when race day arrives in June.
The Vätternrundan Group Ride Series is part of Vätternrundan’s official training program.
Sunday, January 18 @ 8am UTC/3am ET/12am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4654680
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!
