This weekend’s notable events include a virtual Tour de France climb, plus four popular community events we regularly feature. See details below…
🤝 L’Etape Climb Portal Challenge – Col du Telegraphe
✅ XP Bonus ✅ Unlocks ✅ TdF ✅ Climbing
Zwift’s L’Etape Challenge is now underway, pushing thousands of Zwifters to complete in-game replicas of iconic Tour de France climbs featured in this year’s L’Etape du Tour event.
You can ride the climbs on demand to complete the challenge and earn the XP bonuses, or you can do it with others in an event on the weekends. This weekend features Col du Telegraphe, which is 11.9km long with 855m of elevation gain.
Bonus: finish a L’Etape Challenge weekend event to unlock the H2O Audio in-game headphones.
Events scheduled every 3 hours this weekend
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/letapechallenge
🤝WOW – High Speed Ride on TT bikes with draft
✅ Fast Miles ✅ Upgrade Hack ✅ Unique Event
Want to accumulate lots of miles quickly? Join this popular group ride, which puts everyone on the fastest TT bike in game (Cadex Tri with DT Swiss disc wheels) with drafting enabled. It’s 100km, but it’ll be a fast 100km!
Riders are on Waisted 8 (30.7km, 144m) this week, and four pace groups are offered, 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 gravel bike upgrade while riding the Cadex Tri in this event.
Sunday, June 14 @ 12:45pm UTC/8:45am ET/5:45am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5611437
🤝 JETT Endurance Ride 100km 2.5~3.3w/kg
✅ Endurance Challenge ✅ Pace Options
Here’s a popular, spicy long ~100km ride with two pace options: B group at 3-3.3 W/kg, or C at 2.5-2.9 W/kg. Both groups will be on Watopia’s Watts of the Wild (42km, 309m) for 100km, and both groups have optional efforts on some of the intermediate segments if you’d like.
Choose your desired pace, listen to the ride leader, and get that endurance work done! Both categories have a leader (yellow beacon) and sweepers.
Saturday, June 13 at 8:05pm UTC/4:05pm ET/1:05pm PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5610764
🤝 The BMTR Fundo
✅ Popular Ride ✅ Legacy Leader ✅ Endurance Challenge ✅ Kit Unlock
A regularly featured event here on Zwift Insider, the BMTR Fundo consistently draws lots of joiners because it’s well led and run week after week, year after year.
This week’s ride is on Watopia’s Sugar Cookie route (33.6km, 251) and you have four distance groups to choose from, all the way up to 100 miles!
Saturday, June 13 @ 12:10pm UTC/8:10am EDT/5:10am PDT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5610650
🤝LA GRUPETTA DE ZABI
✅ Banded Ride ✅ Popular
Once again, we’re featuring a popular ride from the newish ZABI squad. It’s a 120-minute banded ride on New York’s Double Parked route, which is 42.2km long with 330m of elevation.
Saturday, June 13 @ 7am UTC/3am ET/12am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5610545
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!
