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Zwift’s “ZRacing” is the platform’s most popular ongoing race series, and in August riders take on new Makuri Islands courses. With a new Women-Only option and up to 1500 bonus XP available, there’s something for everyone! Read on for details…
New This Month
Women-Only Events
Two daily women-only races have been added, at 4:30pm UTC (12:30pm ET/9:30am PT) and 5:30pm UTC (1:30pm ET/10:30am PT). See upcoming events at zwift.com/events/tag/zracingaug2026women.
New Makuri Routes
Zwift Event Manager and hero of the people James Bailey has created four new Makuri Islands routes for this series. He even got free reign to name them! That means four new route badges, which means a nice chunk of bonus XP. See details below…
Bonus XP
You’ll earn a chunk of XP for each stage you complete, including 1000 XP for your first stage! Total XP for completing all four stages is 1500 XP.
August’s Routes
Here are the routes we’ll be racing in August:
- Stage 1: Mech Isle Mayhem (Aug 10-16)
- Distance: 20.4km / 12.67 mi (1 Lap)
- Elevation: 121m / 397 ft
- PowerUps: Feather, Ghost
- Stage 2: Urumaze (Aug 17-23)
- Distance: 26.8km / 16.65 mi (1 Lap)
- Elevation: 202m / 663 ft
- PowerUps: Feather, Aero
- Stage 3: WhatYumeziWe’reLost? (Aug 24-30)
- Distance: 17.6km / 10.93 mi (1 Lap)
- Elevation: 288m / 945 ft
- PowerUps: Feather, Draft
- Stage 4: Twilight Crit (Aug 31-Sep 6)
- Distance: 21.2km / 13.17 mi (5 Laps)
- Elevation: 116m / 381 ft
- PowerUps: Draft, Aero
See Women-Only ZRacing events >
See Range 1 ZRacing events >
See Range 2 ZRacing events >
See Advanced ZRacing events >
See ALL ZRacing events >
Post-Race Analysis
GC Leaderboard
Zwift’s web-based leaderboards track the monthly GC competition. Access the ZRacing leaderboards at zwift.com/racing/leagues/zracingaug2026.
Your GC ranking is based on your best finishing time for each stage, and you can race stages more than once to try for a better time.
Your Racing Profile
In May, Zwift launched the new “Racing Profile Page” at zwift.com, bringing all your Zwift race results together in one place so it’s easier to track performance and results etc. This page continues to be built out, including the addition of a power dashboard (see below). Sources tell me a ZRS history chart is arriving very soon!
Your profile is available at zwift.com/racing/me.
Category Options
Zwift now schedule four different flavors of ZRacing events in order to encourage “Fairer, more competitive racing for everyone.” There’s the new Women-Only events, then the other three use different racing score ranges for categorization. Click banners below to see upcoming events for each:
Questions or comments?
Post below!
“Zwift now schedule four different flavors of ZRacing events in order to encourage “Fairer, more competitive racing for everyone.”
There’s nothing “fairer” with only offering a Range 1 cyclist (0-160}, Range 2 (0 -210} events without changing your preferred cycling start time to suit this “unfair” system.
Several weeks ago I came in 12th in a Range 2 (0-210} event that I would have won if it was Range 1 (0-160). I won’t be doing that again.
It’s tricky with the distribution of racers. There are so few racers in the low end to start with i’m not really sure what the answer is.
old ABCD cats had the same issue once you start getting below 2/wkg it seems people prefer to so coail rides than race.
I do think there is a lot that could be done to encourage lower end riders to racing but not without a lot of work from zwifts end to make the experience better.
But if you had won the event in range 1, you would have likely been bumped up and not been able to race there again. We all got to start somewhere.
Tl;Dr-my friend have fun and enjoy riding.🚲❤️ IN A NICE WAY let me say: you aren’t winning money either way. You are winning better fitness. You did one race, didn’t win, and won’t ever race again? Trust me that IRL you won’t win your first race, you will get lapped and pulled. I got lapped and pulled my first 2 races. I never win a Zwift race and my ZRS is 450. I still race cuz it’s fun. 🌈 😃 😊
Zwift Event Manager and hero of the people James Bailey – hahahahah
I like it!