This weekend’s big events are the kickoff to Zwift’s 2025/26 Fondo Series. But we’ve also selected two unique races and two unique group rides, none of which we’ve featured before. Check them all out below!
🤝 zFondo Series on Bambino Fondo
✅ Bonus XP ✅ Popular ✅ Endurance Challenge
Zwift’s popular monthly Fondo Series is back, and it kicks off this weekend! This is by far the most popular event happening this weekend, so if you’re looking for a longer effort you can race if desired, this is it.
Read all about the Zwift Fondo Series >
We’ll be on the Bambino Fondo route (52.6km, 581m).
Multiple timeslots this weekend
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/zfondos
🤝Rise & Shine, The Century Quest
✅ Beginner-Friendly ✅ Endurance Training ✅ Unique Event
The folks at Team Evolve have spun up a new weekly ride concept where the purpose is to progressively ride longer (5km added each week) until you hit 100 miles in March.
This weekend is the first ride of the series: 30km on France’s R.G.V.
Sunday, September 28 @ 8:30am UTC/4:30am ET/1:30am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5051835
🥇 HISP London Minitour, Stage 1
✅ Stage Race ✅ Unique Event ✅ Popular
Based on early signup numbers, this new race series looks to be a popular one. It’s a 4-stage series, raced each weekend, with mass starts and not categories. And it begins this week with the first stage on Greatest London Flat (31km, 222m).
Enter individual races for the fun of it, or compete in all four stages. There’s a GC on ZwiftPower which uses cumulative time to rank riders across the series!
Multiple timeslots this weekend
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/hisp
🤝 SWX Saturday Easy Free Ride
✅ Fresh Ride Host ✅ Beginner-Friendly ✅ Banded
We’re featuring this event because it has a decent number of early signups, and it’s hosted by a group we haven’t seen before!
This is a banded ride, so you can ride at whatever pace you’d like. You’ll be on Watopia’s Country to Coastal for 60 minutes.
Saturday, September 27 @ 3:15pm UTC/11:15am ET/8:15am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5119036
🥇 Team Evolve’s September’s Omnium
✅ Omnium ✅ Unique Event
Looks like Team Evolve gets two features this weekend! On Sunday, they’re hosting a three-race omnium that will take a total of ~95 minutes to complete. You earn points based on your finishing position in each of the race, then the rider with the most points in each category wins the Omnium.
This is a three-race series:
- Race 1 Croissant 12.5km iTT
- Race 2 Petite Douleur 24.8km
- Race 3 The Bell Lap 8km 4-lap crit
Bike are neutralized – same weight, CdA, and upgrade level. As always, be sure to read event description for more details.
Sunday, September 28 @ 5pm UTC/1pm ET/10am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/evolve
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!
