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    L39ION of LA Crit Series Begins Friday: Here’s Everything You Need To Know

    Eric Schlange
    By Eric Schlange
    December 8, 2021
    LAST UPDATED December 9, 2021
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    This Friday, December 10th, sees the start of the first-ever L39ION of LA Crit Series. Racers are already signing up in droves, so these races will clearly be highly competitive events.

    Additional details about the series have come to light since our initial post, so we wanted to follow up with a fresh post. Here’s everything you need to know about the L39ION of LA Crit Series.

    Race Dates

    The L39ION of LA Crit Series consists of 4 races:

    • Friday, December 10th
    • Tuesday, December 14th 
    • Friday, December 17th
    • Tuesday, December 21st

    Points/GC Details

    While each race will have a winner (the first over the line), there is also a points-based general classification for the overall series. A race within the race!

    Riders earn points based on their finishing position: 20 points for 1st, 19 for 2nd, 18th for 3rd, all the way down to 1 point for 20th place.

    The overall GC winner will be the rider in each time slot with the most points after 4 races.

    Choose Your League/Time Slot

    There are four “leagues” to choose from. Each league has its own time slot:

    • AUS: 6:30pm AEDT/7:30am GMT/2:30am EST/11:30pm PST
    • East: 11am AEDT/12am GMT/7pm EST/4pm PST
    • UK/EU: 6am AEDT/7pm GMT/2pm EST/11am PST
    • West: 2pm AEDT/3am GMT/10pm EST/7pm PST

    Your GC points only apply to the particular time slot you race, so if you want to compete for GC, you must race the same time slot in each of the four races.

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    32 GC Winners

    With 4 leagues (time slots) and 4 categories in each mixed race as well as 4 categories in each women-only race, a total of 32 GC winners (16 mixed, 16 women-only) will be crowned at the conclusion of the series.

    About the Route: Neokyo Crit Course

    Events will take place over 6 laps (approximately 24 km/15 miles) of the Neokyo Crit Course, a flat 3.9km circuit that covers portions of the permanently-dark Neokyo map near the Neokyo Harbor start pens including Castle Park and the Shopping District.

    See our Neokyo Crit Series page for more route details >

    Tips for Beginners

    If you haven’t yet raced seriously on Zwift, never fear. Here’s what you need to know before jumping into the L39ION of LA Crit Series…

    Choosing Your Category

    Riders must select a category when signing up for the race. Categories are based on your FTP in watts per kilogram. Calculating this is simple: if your FTP is 250 watts and you weigh 75kg, your FTP in w/kg would be 250/75=3.33 w/kg.

    Standard ZwiftPower categories used for this series are:

    • A: 4+ w/kg
    • B: 3.2-4 w/kg
    • C: 2.5-3.2 w/kg
    • D: 1-2.5 w/kg

    If your FTP is 3.33 w/kg, you would sign up for the B category.

    Important: signing up for too “low” of a category is considered sandbagging, and you will be removed from the final results.

    ZwiftPower Account Required

    You must have a ZwiftPower account to be included in the final results. See this post for basic instructions on setting up your ZwiftPower account and hooking it to your Zwift account.

    Want more racing tips? Start here >

    Ready to Race?

    Find the series events in the Companion app, or click below to see all upcoming events in the series and sign up.

    See Upcoming Events

    Questions or Comments?

    Post below!

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      King bath salts
      King bath salts
      1 year ago

      look like good Fun race.

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      Nathan B
      Nathan B
      1 year ago

      Shame there isn’t anything during the day UK/EU timezone. 7:30am or 7pm aren’t great times for folks with kids.

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      Chris Haswell
      Chris Haswell
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Nathan B

      Looks like one is on 10am UK as well.

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      Eugene C
      Eugene C(@tobinhatesyou)
      1 year ago

      If there’s a 23:30pm, I want to know when it’s 23:30am

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      Chris Haswell
      Chris Haswell
      1 year ago

      Now to decide on what bike to use ?

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      Troels Walsted Hansen
      Troels Walsted Hansen
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Chris Haswell

      The course is almost completely flat, so whatever you have that is most aero… Although I’d say the graphics in Neokyo really calls for Tron bike. 😎

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      Nobby Dickinson
      Nobby Dickinson
      1 year ago

      The times are pretty terrible tbh A late afternoon GMT one would have been perfect for me

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      MHolden
      MHolden(@holdenadventures)
      1 year ago

      Any idea if we get a L39ION kit to keep?
      Times are bad but might sign on just to get the jersey.

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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      1 year ago
      Reply to  MHolden

      Not that I know of. That’s their team kit, so they don’t let just anyone wear it.

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      Mholden
      Mholden(@holdenadventures)
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Eric Schlange

      True, but L39ION is also disruptive, breaking some cycling traditions like selling their kits 🙂

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      Snapper UK
      Snapper UK
      1 year ago

      Raced this morning- brilliant race (10am GMT). About 140 riders in category B. Very fast course and was keeping up with the lead pack until I had to answer the door 2/3 of the way through. Ended up over 2 mins down.

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      Mo ni
      Mo ni
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Snapper UK

      Did you unlock the jersey?

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      Daryl Southwood
      Daryl Southwood
      1 year ago

      Do any experience points come with the route badge?

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      MaxT
      MaxT
      1 year ago

      Fun race, over 300 Bs in Europe time zone last night. And an inspired choice by zwift to make a finish with no banner 🤪🤣

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      Rick
      Rick
      1 year ago

      I took part in the crit and, although it was great having so many people racing, I found the actual course was a little underwhelming from a racing perspective – there’s barely any gradients to speak of, so it felt like a high tempo training ride followed by a sprint. Which perhaps is not far off a crit anyway … but at least in Crit City there are a couple of points in which you know you can either try and split the blob or, conversely, have to really dig deep to try and hang onto the blob.

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      Rick KRT
      Rick KRT
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Rick

      Have to agree, when 100 riders make it to the finish sprint it is kind of silly. Especially when the finish line isn’t marked or line up
      with anything. But I am sucked in so will give it a go tomorrow for race 2. Maybe some riders skip due to getting route badge.

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      Paul Himes
      Paul Himes
      1 year ago

      Such a strange course with no marked finish line. So many people expected it to finish at the banner for the next sprint and were surprised when the race was over. Lap changes (and a finish line) when it turns from sidewalk to asphalt but no banner or marker? That seems like something that should change. Moving the finish to the spring banner would be an easy fix. Adding an extra banner at the current ending would put a lot of banners really close together but would be better than the current state.

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      Huw
      Huw
      1 year ago

      So many B’s in the C race 10:00 am today!!

      ZP will need a good clear out. Why do people do it!?

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      Tammy Cook
      Tammy Cook
      1 year ago

      great race and course.. still out of cat riders finishing and disrupting honest riders. I had a look on Zwiftpower for placings after race two and it’s not up.. will this take awhile, or done at the end of the series.. thank you and great work

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      Melanie
      Melanie
      1 year ago

      Where are the official results?
      In Zwiftpower the results are only Mixed

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