We’re featuring a well-rounded mix of community-hosted events this weekend, including a super-short race in France, a very long group ride in London, two ladies-only events, and a beginner-friendly banded ride on a new France route. See our picks below!
🥇 Rhino Racing Macaron Super Sprint
✅ Tiny Route ✅ Route Badge
Zwift recently added several routes to their France map, including the super-short, one-way Macaron. Why create such a route? We aren’t sure, but you know we’re going to race it!
Join the Rhino Racing squad for what may be the shortest race of your Zwift career.
Multiple timeslots on Friday and Saturday
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/rhinosupersprint
🤝GXY Luna – Ladies Only Endurance Ride
✅ Ladies Only ✅ Beginner Friendly
Here’s a new ladies-only ride from the popular Galaxy Cycling Club. Led by experienced Zwifter and endurance coach Beth Greenaway, this weekly ride will vary between 60-100 minutes “to allow for a variety of routes and occasional badge hunting.” Beth’s beacon pace will be 1.6-2 w/kg.
On-screen and Discord chat are encouraged. Beth says this is an opportunity for ladies of all levels to ask questions and seek support in reaching their health, fitness, and performance goals.
This week’s kickoff ride is on 1 lap of Waisted 8 (30.9km, 144m).
Sunday, April 27 @ 8:10am UTC/4:10am ET/1:10am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4926547
🤝 Pretzels, Epics and Afterparties
✅ Endurance Challenge ✅ Route Badge ✅ Legacy Leaders
We’re featuring a ride on one of Zwift’s shortest routes, so why not feature this group ride on Zwift’s longest route? The Velos squad is hosting a series of rides on Zwift’s infamous pretzels and other epic rides. This ride officially stops after 2 hours, but riders can continue if they want to knock out London’s PRL Full, the longest route on Zwift (173.5km, 2634m).
The ride includes a yellow beacon who will ride at 2.5 w/kg, and a red beacon riding at 2 w/kg. Choose your pace!
Saturday, April 26 at 11am UTC/7am ET/4am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4958853
🥇 LEVEL Racing – Chase Race – Gentil 8
✅ Chase Race ✅ Women Only
I love a good chase race, and while I can’t join this one (it’s ladies only, after all) I want to support it for two reasons:
- Signup numbers are already looking really good
- Chase racing is a cool format I’d like to see more of on Zwift
Riders are on France’s new Gentil 8 route (25.8km, 258). Pick your category based on racing score, then work together to catch the groups up the road without getting caught by riders chasing from behind!
Saturday, April 26 at 2am UTC/10am ET/7am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4945103
🤝 LA MARCHA HISPANA (Enable Rubberbanding)
✅ Banded Ride ✅ Beginner-Friendly ✅ Route Badge
Join the HISP team on a banded ride around France’s new Knights of the Roundabout route (54.4km, 411m). As long as you keep pedaling, you’ll stay in the pack and knock out this route badge, grabbing some extra XP along the way!
Saturday, April 26 @ 8am UTC/4am ET/1am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4958792
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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