This weekend’s big events are… well… Zwift’s Big Weekend events. But we’re also featuring two long group rides, a community-organized fondo race series, and a ride for a cause. Check them all out below!
🤝 Zwift’s Big Weekend
✅ Celebrity Leaders ✅ Popular ✅ Banded
It’s Zwift’s birthday celebration this weekend, since the platform turns 11 years old this fall – and Zwift is holding a series of events with celebrity leaders to celebrate! Each ride is on a different route with different leaders, but they’re all 45-minute banded rides.
Read all about Zwift’s Big Weekend >
Note: Zwift is also holding its biggest sale ever on the Zwift Ride with KICKR CORE 2. See this post for details…
Multiple timeslots this weekend
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/zwiftsbigweekend
🥇La Cyclo MedioFondo Foudre
✅ Long Race ✅ Age-Based ✅ Unique Event
Here’s a fun and unique event concept – a weekly series of “medio fondos” featuring age-based groupings. Team Foudre is organizing this series, and it appears that the first four events, held on four consecutive weekends in October, serve as a sort of “pre-series,” where your best two results count towards the overall. (See event description for details.)
The series kicks off this weekend with a race on Big Foot Hills in Watopia (69.9km, 714m).
Sunday, October 5 @ 7:45am UTC/3:45am ET/12:45am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5106370
🤝 Team Vegan World Animal Day 2025
✅ Good Cause ✅ Banded Ride ✅ Beginner-Friendly
Join Team Vegan in a ride on World Animal Day, a day that “unites the animal welfare movement, mobilizing it into a global force to make the world a better place for all animals.”
This is a 60-minute banded ride on Wandering Flats, so as long as you pedal, you’ll stay with the group.
Saturday, October 4 @ 2:15pm UTC/10:15am ET/7:15am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5111133
🤝 USMeS – Task Force 100 [E]
✅ Fresh Ride Host ✅ Beginner-Friendly ✅ Banded
The USMeS Team holds a 100km ride every Saturday, but on the first Saturday of the month it’s a 100 mile event. This month they’re riding on London’s PRL Full (173.8km, 2628m).
If you’ve been wanting to knock this route out, this is a great way to do it… because long rides are always better with friends!
Rider leader will pace at 2.2 w/kg average, but all paces are welcome.
Saturday, October 4 @ 12:50pm UTC/8:50am ET/5:50am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5126436
🤝 Vikings Valhalla Sunday Skaal Ride
✅ Endurance Challenge ✅ Legacy Leaders
We’ve featured this event many times in the past, as it’s always well-attended and well-led at paces that helps everyone stay together. Experienced leaders and sweepers do their best to keep the groups together so everyone can work together to knock out a long ride!
This week’s ride has two pace category options: a D pace of 1.7-2.2 W/kg, or a C pace of 2.5-2.8 W/kg. Both groups will ride 3 laps of Watopia’s Triple Flat Loops for a total length of 104.2km and 476 meters of climbing.
Sunday, October 5 @ 7:05am UTC/3:05am ET/12:05am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5127265
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!
