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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 2000 XP (1000 XP for first stage, +500 for two stages, +300 for three stages, +200 for four stages).
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
- Note: ZRS changes were turned off for some of this week’s races due to finish placement inaccuracies. See note under “Post-Race Analysis” below for more info…
- 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.
UPDATE August 11, 2026: Zwift has canceled the GC competition for the entire Makuri Madness series due to inaccurate race results caused by racers running differing game versions, which led to differing finish lines. Read more on Zwift’s forum >
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:
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