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!
Thanks Eric!
For information there is also a Women category in La Cyclo MedioFondo by Team Foudre.
And after this preseries, there will be a 2025/2026 season where the 12 best results out of the 24 MedioFondos will be taken into account for the global ranking of each category.
And anti cheating analysis is performed on each race to ensure fair competition.
Hope to see a lot of you on this event, cheers!
Martial
https://www.zwift.com/events/view/5136936
Bikealicious Joy Ride crew is taking on the Mega Pretzel next weekend!
Banded, supportive, extra breaks, and a load of fun!