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Zwift’s “ZRacing” is the platform’s most popular ongoing race series, and in May, riders are being given several race format options to choose from.
Each week’s stage has races in four formats (ZRacing, Crit Club, Epic Race, and TT). Completing any of the four formats earns you an XP bonus and credit for the stage.
Read about this month’s races and the new racing profile page below!
May’s Routes
Here are the routes we’ll be racing in May:
- Stage 1 (May 4-10)
- ZRacing: Rolling Highlands, 2 laps (23.1km, 182m) Feather + Draft powerups
- Crit Club: Glasgow Reverse, 6 laps (19.1km, 210m) Feather + Anvil powerups
- Epic: The Muckle Yin, 2 laps (47km, 564m)
- TT: Loch Loop, 2 laps (16km, 142m)
- Stage 2 (May 11-17)
- ZRacing: Jurassic Coast (19.7km, 212m) Feather + Aero powerups
- Crit Club: The Classic, 3 laps (18.2km, 163m) Feather + Aero
- Epic: ZG25 Queen (44.8km, 896m)
- TT: Going Coastal (18.3km, 69m)
- Stage 3 (May 18-24)
- ZRacing: Island Hopper (18.1km, 129m) Draft + Aero powerups
- Crit Club: Castle Crit, 5 laps (19km, 267m) Feather + Draft
- Epic: Shisa Shakedown (53.3km, 557m)
- TT: Island Outskirts, 2 laps (22.9km, 182m)
- Stage 4 (May 25-31)
- ZRacing: Queen’s Highway After Party (19.8km, 301m) Draft + Aero powerups
- Crit Club: Duchy Estate, 6 laps (19.7km, 275m) Feather + Draft
- Epic: 2019 Worlds Harrogate Circuit, 4 laps (55.3km, 981m)
- TT: Harrogate Circuit Reverse, 2 laps (27.4km, 490m)
See upcoming Range 1 ZRacing events >
See upcoming Range 2 ZRacing events >
See upcoming Advanced ZRacing events >
See ALL upcoming Four by Four events >
New Racing Profile Page
Zwift is launching a new “Racing Profile Page” today at zwift.com. This brings all your Zwift race results together in one place, making it easier to track performance, racing score changes, etc:
Your profile will be available at zwift.com/racing/me at 8am Pacific April 30, if all goes as planned. Zwift is still actively working on this page, with iterative improvements planned. Be sure to post your feedback on the Zwift forum topic (link incoming) so your input can help this feature evolve in the right direction.
XP Bonuses
You can earn up to 1500 XP in this 4-stage series:
- 1 Stage = 1000 XP
- 2 Stages = 300 XP
- 3 Stages = 100 XP
- 4 Stages = 100 XP
Earn these bonuses by completing any type of race for each stage. (You can mix and match between ZRacing, Crit Club, Epic, and TT races.)
GC Leaderboards
Zwift’s web-based leaderboards will be used for tracking the monthly GC competition for the ZRacing portion of this series.
Access the ZRacing leaderboards at zwift.com/racing/leagues/fourbyfour2026 >
Your GC ranking is based on your best finishing time for each stage, and you can race each stage more than once to try for a better time.
Category Options
Zwift schedules three different flavors of ZRacing events in order to encourage “Fairer, more competitive racing for everyone.” They each use different racing score ranges for categorization and are titled Advanced, Range 1, and Range 2. Click banners below to see upcoming events for each:
Questions or Comments?
Post below!
Should be extra XP for doing 5-16 stages
You only need to do 1 stage per week. At this time of year a 16 stage commitment might have been a bit much to ram into 4 weeks.
Where’s your sense of adventure gone lol
😂
It’s gone outdoors!
I honestly think they’re backwards. The XP bonus should increase as you progress. Not decrease. I can guarantee you alot of people are going to do 1 race and will be skipping the rest.
It should be
250xp 1 race
500xp 2 races
750xp 3 races
1,000xp 4 races
Don’t know who at Zwift switched it up but I feel like that’s how it used to be.
Agreed 👍
Introduce new people to racing and encourage others to give it a try once again. I know it worked for me.
Would be nice to have a (working) link to the GC leaderboards on this new racing profile page. It’s always hard to get to them via the race’s event feed results and almost impossible to find it on a mobile browser. But I guess this is something for the Zwift forum. On the other hand, this new racing profile page is a welcome addition.
BTW the link to the zracing leaderboards that Eric has posted only shows my 2025 results. Does anyone else have this problem?
Same, only 2025
It would be nice to have the GC link, but I don’t think they’ve created that page yet. 😀
It will be here once it is set up: https://www.zwift.com/racing/leagues/fourbyfour2026
GC would be hard because each stage has 4 options. Is option a in stage 1 the same as option b in stage 1 …. So then I do option b in stage 2 against another GC contender that does option a in stage 2 ….. But I like the idea. I like this 4 by 4 set up because I may prefer Epic but have never done Crit. I might like Crit style. Options create value!
The zwift results page has quite a way to go before its near to replacement for zp.
XP bonuses on the busiest races on zwift is also a bit meh. Would prefer to see zwift try to promote other events. I guess if it helps people try out racing fair enough but the first time experience for a racer in zracing is usually pretty poor.
We’ve been doing XP for completing stages in ZRacing since about December (it might have been the one before that). I’d argue that the experience for a first time racer in ZRacing is likely to be a better one than most other events.
Better in zRacing doesn’t mean it’s good, that’s a low bar when many other events are absolutely not designed for beginner racers. And the experience in those events specifically designed for beginners is much better than in zRacing.
so was just an excuse to show that you 94 podiums huh?
Out of 1259 races (that’s what the page shows today)… it seems less impressive.
Yes! More “epic” races please. *I don’t think a 1-1.5 hour race should be called epic but this is where we are on zwift for some reason.
Nevermind, my enthusiasm has quickly been thwarted, seeing that there are very few time slots for the epic races, and none being offered in the evening timeslot PST.
What happens if we do all formats each week?
Your legs will be sore.
😂
Would be better the race format changes at same start time every day. I have the same race every day for my after work timeslot that is ridiculous ;/
Love to see that plenty people are going to try to go for the 16 races. The question is.. what’s the right order for each week? Crit or Epic first?.. 2 back to back, rest 1 day, then 2 and rest again?
For me @ 53 yrs. and riding 10 hrs./wk., producing four race quality efforts in seven days for four weeks straight isn’t realistic, but I probably could have done it in my 20s. I think the best order for a person probably depends on their specific strengths and weaknesses. For me, the crit would be the easiest to recover from so I would do that first. Then zrace, rest, epic, TT, rest, rest. The TT would be the hardest for me to recover from, so I would do that last and then have two rest days before I started the cycle again.
Will there be a gc for the other 3 events at any point? I’m sure they’ll be on Zwift power, but it would be nice having it all on Zwift profile page.
It strikes me odd that they’re pushing 4 races a week when participation starts to dwindle due to better outdoor whether. I will be shocked if the fields aren’t on the small side.
Not so much better down under 😰
Just went to look at times for the Crit racing series and it is really weird sometimes 1 hour gap then other time slots 2-3 hours apart, Looks like I wont be do the crit series as it is either when I pick up kids from school then nothing till I am eating dinner with the kids. Why isn’t it every hour like the Zracing. All 4 should be every hour.
Can I do more than 1 race per week and will that change my stats ie best result stands
Yes, best result stands if you do the ZRacing event more than once in a week.
Personally I think it would have been better to do one race format per week. With 4 races happening almost simultaneously, participation will be split between them, resulting in fewer riders per race. Also, correct me if i’m wrong, it seems that the GC leaderboard is only for the original series, which gives us less reason to try the others – especially now that we are busy with outdoor activities.
Do all 4 formats contribute to the racing score or only the ZRacing?
If a race uses ZRS for grouping riders on signup, then it also affects your ZRS.
> Be sure to post your feedback on the Zwift forum topic (link incoming) so your input can help this feature evolve in the right direction.
The values in “Score – Change” column are very confusing. Seemingly it shows the difference in the racing score after a given race, and some other randomly choosen race on the same page.
Would really expect to see the change form the previous ranking there instead.
On the event it says,
Stage 1 1000 XP
Stage 2 500 XP
Stage 3 300 XP
Stage 4 200 XP
There is a CG for only TT option? No sense to have a CG for different races togheter…
On zwiftpower dot com, click “league” up the top and then select “#zwift tt club series 36” for GC.
Is anyone else seeing this appear in the companion app as a challenge to show series progress? It are missing for me. I thought it was a great addition when they started appearing there for tracking with previous months zwift race series
How do you navigate to the “new profile” page once you are on Zwift.com? Not intuitive.
Go to:
https://www.zwift.com/racing/me
Great to have different format races more frequently but number of participants in each race seems to be lower. Could be seasonal or due to increase in number of races. Just an observation.