Our top pick this weekend is everyone’s favorite sort of charity ride, where every kilometer you ride unlocks a donation for a good cause. Let’s max it out, Zwifters! See all our picks below…
🤝Bauhaus Ride of Hope
✅ Good Cause ✅ KM for Krona
This ride has lots of signups already, and it’s easy to see why: they’ve set it up so that, for every kilometer ridden during this event, BAUHAUS donates 10 SEK to the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation, up to one million SEK in total!
The ride is 60 minutes long, on Watopia’s Triple Flat Loops. Some quick math: if riders average 35 km in the hour, that means each rider can “earn” a 350 SEK donation, which means we need ~2,800 riders to max out the donation. Let’s goooo!!!
Also: visit the campaign page for a chance to win a Wahoo KICKR!
Saturday, January 17 @ 9am UTC/4am ET/1am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5273568
🤝🥇 Tour de Zwift, Stage 2
✅ Popular ✅ Unlocks ✅ Race If You Want
Tour de Zwift is the biggest annual tour on the platform – a celebration of discovery across all Zwift worlds! It kicked off last week with stage 1, and now we’re on stage 2, which runs through Sunday. Hundreds (sometimes thousands) of riders are joining each event, so you’ll always have some company.
Read all about Tour de Zwift 2026 >
Each stage has three route length options. For stage 2, those are Knights of the Roundabout (54.4km, 359m), Three Musketeers (37.8km, 108m), and Hell of the North (20.1km, 241m).
Hourly events all weekend!
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/tourdezwift2026
🤝Vatternrundan Group Ride Series #2
✅ Endurance Training ✅ Progressive Series
The Vätternrundan group ride series is back for another year, and very popular! The premise of the series is simple: weekly rides increasing in duration until March 1, with the goal of preparing you to handle many hours on the bike when the IRL race day arrives in June. (The Vätternrundan Group Ride Series is part of Vätternrundan’s official training program.)
Of course, you can use this to train for any endurance ride you may have planned this Spring/Summer. This week’s ride is 90 minutes long, on France’s R.G.V., and there are two pace group options (1.8-2.2 and 1.5-1.8 W/kg).
Sunday, January 18 @ 8am UTC/3am ET/12am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5203598
🤝 FasCat’s Sweet Spot Saturdays, #4 of 7
✅ Sweet Spot ✅ Coach Frank ✅ Popular
Ever heard of “Sweet Spot” training? It’s a staple for many riders, since it lets you accumulate a lot of training stress in relatively little time without suffering at or above threshold.
The guy who created the sweet spot concept – coach Frank Overton of FasCat – is one of the leaders on these rides. There’s even a Discord channel so you can chat directly with him and other FasCat coaches. So cool!
This is a big ride on Watopia’s The Mega Pretzel (111km, 1659m), and the goal is for riders to do “freestyle sweetspot,” with groups naturally forming around each rider’s sweet spot zone.
Saturday, January 17 @ 2:45pm UTC/9:45am ET/6:45am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5328743
🤝WOW – High Speed Ride on TT bikes with draft
✅ Fast Miles ✅ Upgrade Hack ✅ Unique Event
Want to accumulate lots of miles quickly? Join this newish and popular group ride, which puts everyone on the fastest TT bike in game (Cadex Tri) with drafting enabled. It’s 100km, but it’ll be a fast 100km!
Riders are on Tempus Fugit, the flattest route in Zwift. Three different pace groups, released so the faster groups catch the slower groups over time.
Bike upgrading hack: on rides with forced bikes, whatever bike you’re on when you join the event is the bike that accumulates the distance/elevation/time. So, for example, you could accumulate lots of distance toward a road bike upgrade, while riding the Cadex Tri in this event.
Sunday, January 18 @ 1:45pm UTC/8:45am ET/5:45am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5352676
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!
