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Support JDRF and Team Type 1 This Saturday On the JDRF My Ride 100

Monica Schlange
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Support JDRF and Team Type 1 This Saturday On the JDRF My Ride 100

Have you ever decided to just hop on Zwift last minute without much thought to anything but turning your fan on and grabbing a towel? I’ve recently met a whole team of people who don’t have the luxury of just hopping on with no thought about preparation… and they may be some of the loveliest people you’ll ever meet!

I’m referring to the ~1400 member Team Type 1 on Zwift. This team, started by Ed Angeli in 2016, is mostly made up of people with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), but includes family members or very close acquaintances of people with T1D as well. 

What is Type 1 Diabetes?

Flo Burrage of Team Type 1 explains it this way:

One of the insulin vials pumps Flo uses(an Omnipod, made by Insulet)

Type 1 Diabetes is a chronic autoimmune disease in which insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas are mistakenly destroyed by the body’s immune system. The cause of this attack is not fully understood; there is nothing an individual can change to prevent it from happening, and there is currently no cure. Approximately 20-40 million people have T1D. 

People with T1D are treated with the hormone insulin and must manage their condition by monitoring their blood glucose levels and injecting insulin multiple times each day, or by infusion using an insulin pump 24/7. This is a full-time activity, day and night, and at the simplest level involves balancing carbohydrate intake, activity levels and insulin dosing to maintain as near normal blood glucose levels as reasonably possible. 

If the balancing act doesn’t work so well, in the short term this can lead to too low blood sugar (hypoglycemia), or too high blood sugar (hyperglycemia). Either of these can lead to hospital admission, coma, and worst case, death. In the longer term, sub-optimal blood glucose management can lead to a number of complications such as loss of sight, nerve damage, cardiovascular disease, amputation, and kidney problems, among other complications of varying severity.

T1D and Zwifting

Flo, having been diagnosed with T1D when he was 13 tells us that “being active is incredibly important for people with diabetes. Not only does it improve our general health, physically and mentally, but activity can also help our bodies to use insulin efficiently, help us to regulate blood glucose effectively, help to keep our bodies healthy and strong and reduce the longer term risks of developing complications.”

“Cycling is a great activity for people with diabetes to take part in at any level as it can be gentle on the body for those becoming more active, or it can be thoroughly exhausting and a true challenge for the mind for those looking for a tougher workout!” 

Zwift is especially beneficial for T1D Flo explains, as “some are unable to sense their own hypoglycemia and it can be quite frightening heading out on the road, knowing that if you’ve got the balance of carbs, insulin and activity levels wrong it would be very easy to end up in a heap on the side of the road.” Zwifting allows for a safe place to test out and/or maintain levels, especially for T1Ds who are still learning what works for them.

Family Support

Flo has an excellent support system on Zwift AND at home, including his 10-year-old son, Tom! Tom, his sister Emily and their parents live in Northwest England where they sail dinghies all summer. Tom has been riding most of his life, starting out on a balance bike when he was 2, and at 3 ½ jumping on Emily’s pedal bike, able to ride by day’s end. It was one of Flo’s best memories as a dad as Tom zoomed around making car racing noises. Tom and Flo started riding on Zwift in 2018, when Tom was 8, riding 2-3 days a week. 

When the pandemic hit it brought many charitable events to a hault, including the London Marathon. The London Marathon organizers started a 2.6 Challenge where they encouraged people to do some sort of fun activity that had to do with 2.6 and to raise money for the cause of their choice. Tom says, “My dad challenged me to do something for the 2.6 challenge. I went away and had a good think about it and I had a few different ideas, but then I thought about doing 2.6 times up the Alpe du Zwift. Then we worked out how many meters it would take to do 2.6 times. My daft Dad tried to persuade me not to do it, I forced my Dad to let me.” 

In the weeks leading up to this ride Tom rode every morning before school to earn enough Drops to pay for the Tarmac Pro and Enve 3.4s (having read ZwiftInsider to find out what the best set up for the climb was) as he also approached Level 12 so he could ride the Alpe!

It took Tom 5 hours, 25 minutes to do the 66km and 2704m of climb! He rode with Flo and their friend Lewis Dinsdale (via Zoom) and some of their Team Type 1 friends joined for parts of the ride. Tom was pleased to share he received many Ride Ons, enough to earn his Bigger Than Jensie Badge which Dad Flo doesn’t even have!

  • Flo and Tom, with Lewis Dinsdale on-screen
  • Tom’s 2.6 times up the Alpe

Tom’s effort raised a whopping £1200 to date for JDRF, blowing his original target of £250 out of the water. Vance Nall of TT1 said, “The Zwift Team Type 1 group was so proud of the work that Tom did and he is an incredible role model for all people and especially children. The world needs more kids like Tom in it.”

So who is JDRF?

JDRF is an international diabetes charity which supports some incredible research around the world: looking for better therapies, a means of prevention, and ultimately a cure! Their goal is to rid the world of T1D. 

JDRF also provides much needed support to many children, adults and families coming to terms with diagnosis, including education material and events, opportunities to meet other people with diabetes and learn about the research they are funding. Type 1 diabetes is unusual enough that many people living with T1D don’t meet others in daily life, so JDRF is very helpful!

More about Team Type 1 on Zwift

Team Type 1 (TT1) has been described as “an incredible group,” “super supportive,” “a common bond that other teams do not have,” “inspiring.” 

Both Vance and Ed work to facilitate the growth of TT1, which has a very supportive Facebook group. TT1’s goals are to support and inspire each other, offer team training opportunities, race as a team, and share Zwift and outside race activities with each other. TT1 also has a Zwift social ride weekly on Saturdays at 10:10am EST called Ride On with Type 1 and invites others to join them whether you have T1D or not. They also have a 24-hour team relay on Zwift during November World Diabetes Day.  

If you see their members in game there’s usually a tag at the end of their name: TT1D (this means the rider has T1 diabetes), TT1F (the rider has a family member with the condition), or TT1DF (the rider has the condition and has a family member with it). Give them a Ride On when you see them!

Now, before you conclude that this is just a bunch of really cool people with a condition they have to manage know too that they have a racing team you need to watch out for. They’re very competitive and very speedy (but also very good at bringing along new T1D Zwifters who want to try out racing)! Most recently one of their teams, called the TT1 Lancets, competed in the Premier League WTRL TTT, crushing the competition! 

How Can We Support Team Type 1 and JDRF?

JDRF, Team Type 1, and Zwift have arranged a virtual replacement to one of the big IRL Riding for a Cure charity rides. JDRF My Ride 100 is this Saturday, July 25 over multiple distances (20-100 miles) on Watopia’s Waistband and YOU are invited!

Whether you ride Saturday to support JDRF and Team Type 1, or you’re riding AND fundraising for this amazing cause; whether you’re in it for the fun, or you’re a T1D trying out cycling for the first time, they would love to see you at this event! 

Each person I’ve spoken to who is connected with TT1 has graciously shared their story and then tripped over themselves to tell me about someone else on their team that they really admire or are inspired by. Anyone with T1D or who knows someone with it will find great camaraderie in this group of excellent humans!

From now on, each time I see someone on Zwift with a Team Type 1 tag in their name, I’ll trip over myself trying to reach out to say “Hi” and give a Ride On! As I ride I worry about the fan pointing in the right direction, but as they ride they’ve got much bigger things on their mind. And somehow that makes them a group of very lovely people! 

Trainer Difficulty on Zwift: How Much of a Bigger Granny Gear Does 75%, 50%, and 25% Provide?

Jordan Fowler
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Trainer Difficulty on Zwift: How Much of a Bigger Granny Gear Does 75%, 50%, and 25% Provide?

Editor’s note: this article originally ran on Jordan’s website at meatmotor.com. We appreciated Jordan’s alternative view of Trainer Difficulty and loved his willingness to sweat for science, so we asked if we could share his findings with our audience.

Jump Straight to the Gearing Results

Perhaps there is nothing more misunderstood in the Zwift world than trainer difficulty.

Some people have (wrongly) postulated that if they are racing with the Difficulty slider at 100% against someone racing at 50%, they are at a disadvantage. This is not mathematically true. In Zwift, watts are watts. The difference is the feedback in terms of resistance your legs get on an incline (and decline).

On Zwift, keep in mind you have a virtual rider who is propelled by watts. You also have the real world you in which you create those watts.

There are two ways to generate more watts. (1) Press harder on the pedals (force/torque) or (2) spin the pedals faster.

Zwift Trainer Difficulty is said to be a decrease in the gradient of a hill in terms of what is presented to your legs in terms of resistance on the trainer.

  • At 100% Difficulty on a 10% gradient, you feel the full 10% in terms of pedal resistance.
  • At 75% on a 10% gradient, you are only experiencing a 7.5% gradient in terms of pedal resistance.
  • At 50% Difficulty, that hill is now a 5% gradient in terms of pedal resistance.

And so on…

Here are how things even out. Your on-screen-rider is STILL going up a 10% gradient and needs that amount of virtual watts to get up the climb even though your Trainer Difficulty can make the gradient feel reduced to you the real-rider.

So if you are racing someone and they are at 100% difficulty, and you are at 50%, their trainer resistance will be higher, and they will be putting out more force and watts than you at the same cadence as you. To keep up with the 100% rider in the same IRL (in real life) gear as you, you will need a much higher cadence to output the watts needed to drive your virtual rider up the climb.

So a good comparison/analogy is to see trainer Difficulty as your available gear selections. But realize that your available gear selection changes based on the gradient of the hill.

At 100% difficulty, you are locked into your real-world gearing on your bike. So if you are riding a steep climb in your granny gear of 34×28 is too difficult to spin at 80 RPM cadence, all you can do is reduce your cadence. Just like IRL, you’ll be slogging up that hill at some incredibly low RPMs (aka the dreaded 50 RPM climb). This is usually not the most advantageous physiological means to get a bike up a hill. There is a lot of taxing on the muscular system at 50 RPMs cadence.

But, with the Difficulty reduced to 75%, you now have a bigger granny gear at your disposal, and at 50% an even bigger one. You can now spin at higher cadences than you could on your real-world gears. (But don’t forget, you’ll have to spin faster to go the same speed online).

But Just How Much Bigger Are the Gears at Each Percentage?

Ahhhh, time for an experiment and a report.

Test method:

  1. Climb up a specific segment of Alpe du Zwift that is a 10% gradient at the same cadence but with different difficulty settings. In this experiment, cadence is the constant in the equation. I chose 80 RPMs because it seems like a good balance between grinders and spinners. I chose the 10% segment because that is a solid round number.
  2. Trainer Difficulty is the variable. The test was performed at 100%, 75%, 50%, and 25% difficulties.
  3. Speed will be the outcome. Spinning at 80 RPMs at 100% difficulty makes your virtual rider go faster than spinning at 80 RPMs on 75% difficulty. So the speed in mph is the important piece of the experiment.
  4. Once we get the speed for each difficulty level, we can reverse engineer the speed at cadence to approximate the gear using Sheldon Brown’s Online Gear Calculator.

Note: I ran this test twice at each Difficulty, but it needs more repetitions to be definitive. Also, the gradient does affect the results. A lesser gradient would be a smaller equivalent gear difference. But 10% is a pretty classic climbing percentage, and Alpe du Zwift is the most iconic climb (granted the overall ADZ climb averages 8.5% overall). When I have time, I’ll rerun this on this segment and at other gradients.

Setup data for the experiment:

  • 77 kg rider on Zwift.
  • Sheldon Calculator inputs using 700ccx25 tire and 172.5mm cranks. Yes, I am using a direct drive trainer IRL, but I had to pick something for that value.

Test results:

  • Runs at 100% Difficulty and 80 RPM Cadence on 34×28 (2 run average)
    Speed achieved in Zwift 7.98 mph
  • Runs at 75% Difficulty and 80 RPM Cadence on 34×28 (2 run average)
    Speed achieved in Zwift 6.54 mph
  • Runs at 50% Difficulty and 80 RPM Cadence on 34×28 (2 run averages)
    Speed achieved in Zwift 4.65 mph
  • Runs at 25% Difficulty and 80 RPM Cadence on 34×28 (2 run averages)
    Speed achieved in Zwift 2.69 mph

Then we reverse-engineered the equivalent gears on Sheldon’s calculator.

The Results

Difficulty SettingGear Equivalent on 10% ClimbWatts Required for 80 Cadence
100%34 x 28 (real-life test gear)311 watts
75%34 x 33248 watts
50%34 x 46177 watts
25%34 x 77 (aka the whopper)93 watts

This is what you really wanted to know. Thanks for sticking around.

Summary and Insights

You can get some whopping big granny gears in Zwift using the Trainer Difficulty setting. For riding inside the Zwift world, you can virtually swap out your cassette just by reducing the percentage. Spin like Froome or grind like Ulrich, whichever you prefer to go fast.

On a 10% climb, reducing the difficulty to 25% means that you have a massive gear available to you. Granted, you will need to spin the snot out of it, because at 80 RPM and 2.69 mph it will take you 2 hours and 47 minutes to arrive at the summit. Of course, you can always run at 25% difficulty and simply use a bigger real-world gear. Heck, run your big ring and feel like a pro.

When racing, you can reduce Trainer Difficulty, just realize on every incline you’ll have to spin faster than your competitors due to the decrease in gradient effect. As you see in the chart above, you are at 25% difficulty and your opponent 100% spinning at the same cadence, you’ll get dropped like a hot rock.

One caveat, if you are going to do some massive real-world climbs, you might not want to not dial down the difficulty on Zwift. Instead, get used to grinding your real-world gear limitations once you run out of gears.

Questions or Comments?

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Rebel Route: Toutes les Routes

Eric Schlange
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Rebel Route: Toutes les Routes

Our newest Rebel Route covers every road on the new France map, in both directions. It’s the longest Rebel Route we’ve created to date (the first to break the 100km barrier) and our first non-Watopia Rebel Route!

Here’s an animation of this route:

About Rebel Routes

“Rebel Routes” are Zwift rides which are not available on Zwift’s routes list, thus requiring manual navigation.

See all rebel routes >

The reward for your rebel ride? Exploring a new route, knowing you’ve gone where few Zwifters have gone before. And a Strava segment rank in the tens or hundreds instead of the thousands! They are included as a separate category on our Veloviewer Route Hunter leaderboard.

Route Description

This long Rebel Route begins with a ~900 meter lead-in from the spawn point to the Marina Sprint line. Then we ride around the main outer loop of the map in a clockwise direction, nearly completing a full lap of the Casse-Pattes route which includes the Pavé Sprint Reverse, the Aqueduc KOM Reverse, and the Petit KOM (in that order).

  • Aqueduc KOM Reverse
  • Pavé Sprint
  • Enjoy the farmlands!

Then we turn right toward the Balloon Field, making our way over the twisty river road to the Balloon Field and the Ballon Sprint before turning left and riding the main outer loop in the counter-clockwise direction. This includes the short Aqueduc KOM, Pavé Sprint, and Marina Sprint Reverse. We continue past the start pens and up the base of the Mont Ventoux climb before turning left to descend the Petit KOM.

After descending the zigzags of the Petit KOM it’s a quick left toward the Balloon Field and another chance to sprint, this time on the Ballon Sprint Reverse. Then it’s over the twisty river road and a right turn toward Mont Ventoux: let the fun begin!

  • Chalet Reynard KOM banner (you’re not done yet!)
  • You made it!

The Mont Ventoux climb is the biggest in Zwift at just over 19km (11.8 miles) long with 1480m (4,857)’ of elevation gain. Top racers complete the climb in just under an hour, while many fit amateurs shot to break 90 minutes.

Once you reach the top, enjoy the view: you’ve earned it! Stay on the ring road around the observatory then descend back to where you began – the route ends at the Marina Sprint banner.

Profile

This route is quite flat for the first 60km. We saved all the fun for the end!

Getting Started + Lead-In

Start by choosing the Casse-Pattes route. This will take you in the right direction for the first portion of the ride.

Turn by Turn

Here are the turns you’ll need to make to successfully complete Toutes les Routes. Start by choosing the Casse-Pattes route, or any route that begins near the start pens. The official Strava segment begins at the Marina Sprint arch.

  1. Straight to Mont Saint-Michel (during lead-in, before Marina Sprint arch)
  2. 16km: Straight to Ventoux Summit
  3. 19km: Right to Mont Saint-Michel
  4. 22.5km: Right to Balloon Field
  5. 30km: Straight to Aqueduct
  6. 46.5km: Straight to Ventoux Summit
  7. 50km: Left to Aqueduct
  8. 53km: Left to Balloon Fields
  9. 60.5km: Left to Ventoux Summit
  10. 64km: Straight to Ventoux Summit
  11. 101km: Straight to Mont Saint-Michel
  12. 104.3km: Straight to Mont Saint-Michael

Route details:
Distance: 104.8km (65.1 miles)
Elevation Gain: 1968m (6,458′)
Strava Segment

Rebel Route Suggestions

Got an idea for a great rebel route? Share it below and maybe we’ll publish a post about it!

ZwiftPower Transitioning to Zwift: Part 1

Eric Schlange
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ZwiftPower Transitioning to Zwift: Part 1

The Zwift racing community has been abuzz since last Wednesday (July 15th) when James Hodges, the programmer behind ZwiftPower, posted a message on the ZwiftPower Facebook Group to let people know the service was back up and running… and to wave goodbye.

Live is back online*.

*Server may not be up to the task and crash a few times during busy periods. Time will tell (pending a server transfer).

And with that good news, thanks for all the fish.

(For those who don’t get the reference… “Thanks for all the fish” comes from The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. It’s a way of signaling that you’re leaving just before something blows up.)

At the same time, he posted that he left his job at ZwiftPower.com as “Sole Developer”, and he changed the group’s ZwiftPower logo to a grey, “powered off” version.

A ZwiftPower Primer

If you’re a Zwift racer, you’re familiar with ZwiftPower. It’s where the “real results” of Zwift races live, because it allows race organizers to DQ riders who “cheat” in various ways – for example, those who ride above their category’s allowed w/kg thresholds. ZwiftPower is much more than just a results tool, though – it includes a powerful event search, rankings for individual riders and teams, a dual-recording analysis tool, rider power profiles, and more.

ZwiftPower is the most important third-party tool in the Zwift universe, and James stepping away from the project with no announcement of a successor is big news. (On a personal note, I should mention that I’ve interacted with James numerous times over the years – he’s a strong Zwift A racer, a programming whiz, and a super-helpful guy when it come to answering my questions or constantly making site upgrades inspired by the community’s suggestions.)

Glen Knight is the other principal behind ZwiftPower. It was he and James who collaborated to develop ZwiftPower years ago, when the KISS racing series (which Glen spearheaded) spun up, and better race management tools were needed. Glen has been more of the infrastructure guy (servers, etc) and also helped with setting up events through the site, while James has been the programmer. Both have poured countless hours into the site.

Zwift’s Statement

With rumors flying around that Zwift had taken over ZwiftPower in a way that left Glen and James rather nonplussed, I reached out to get Zwift HQ’s perspective. Here’s what Zwift told me (I’ve broken their statement up into sections, with my comments in between):

Zwift has been providing financial support to ZwiftPower for some time, as part of our commitment to investing in tools that support community racing on the platform. Created as a not-for-profit tool by James Hodges and Glen Knight, ZwiftPower has helped to empower our community to pioneer new event formats and racing on the platform.

It’s worth noting here that Zwift has been a financial supporter of key community projects for years. Zwift Community Live, ZwiftCast, and ZwiftInsider also receive financial support from Zwift, and have done so since early days.

With significant support from Dave Ranson, James and Glen have continued to work on ZwiftPower to this date, helping with the transition over to Zwift.  During the last 2 months, we have been preparing to migrate ZwiftPower to our own AWS servers to help provide more product stability, especially for larger events such as the Virtual L’Etape du Tour de France taking place now. We expect to cutover to these new servers during the next month.

Migrating ZwiftPower over to their AWS servers in order to provide more stability for large events makes sense – AWS servers make it easy to scale server resources to keep up with demand.

A fun little bit of Zwift history: Glen Knight was originally running the ZwiftPower servers out of his garage. It consisted of many computers, and the overall monthly cost of hardware, bandwidth, and power was quite significant. I believe it was when these costs got high enough that an agreement was reached for Zwift to fund the infrastructure of the site, which was a good thing!

Crucially, moving ZwiftPower under Zwift’s ownership and into Zwift’s cloud setup also allows for a much more simplified view of GDPR and related privacy issues, since personal data isn’t being shipped out to a third party.

The future vision is to create a more seamless experience between ZwiftPower and Zwift as we continue our focus on becoming the definitive racing experience for cyclists around the world. This includes a focus on the connection of the Zwift and ZwiftPower accounts as well as supporting teams, leagues, and categorization with the framework that James and Glen have worked so hard to build and maintain for the community.

This vision for the future is a welcome one. Zwifters are quite unanimous in stating that the Zwift racing experience should be more seamless. After all, running results through a third-party website wasn’t the ideal solution, it was simply the only workable solution when it was created. Essentially, the community stepped up to develop racing tools when Zwift was unwilling/unable to do so.

If Zwift could smoothly fold essential ZwiftPower functionality into its own website and the Companion app, that would be a huge step forward. Along the way, the hassles of creating a separate account and opting into third-party sharing would also go away, making it so every Zwifter has access to ZwiftPower’s core features, baked into Zwift’s products.

This is the hope, at least. But there are two very clear concerns from the racing community:

  1. Will Zwift be able to manage ZwiftPower moving forward?
    This is the immediate question. With James and Glen out of the picture, what happens if the site goes down? What level of support can racers expect?

    Stepping back, it’s important to acknowledge that managing ZwiftPower is more than just making sure the server doesn’t crash. It’s supporting event organizers who have questions, riders who need support, fixing site bugs, etc. With over 200k registered users, simply managing the site day-to-day is a significant job.
  2. Will Zwift dedicate the necessary resources to transition ZwiftPower’s functionality into Zwift’s products?
    Assuming Zwift is able to manage ZwiftPower effectively – the next step is making the major changes necessary to transition the site so it’s integrated into Zwift’s suite of services.

    Preserving essential functionality while opening up ZwiftPower’s powerful tools to the entire Zwift community is no small thing – it’s going to take a clear vision, a dedicated team, and lots of testing. The community is understandably dubious about the prospects of this happening any time soon, given Zwift’s self-confessed history of rather slow development on key projects.

Though Zwift has taken ownership of Zwift Power, it will always remain a legacy of James and Glen. For that Zwift and the Zwift community will always be grateful.

Zwift concludes with a clear statement, in case there was any confusion: Zwift has taken ownership of ZwiftPower. They also include a well-deserved note of thanks to James and Glen, and I would echo the same.

Key Assets

While James and Glen are staying quiet about it, reading between the lines it’s clear this transition to Zwift hasn’t been a smooth one. That said, James and Glen did sign a contract with Zwift in October 2018 which assigned all ZwiftPower-related intellectual property to Zwift. Since that time, they have been paid an undisclosed amount to maintain the site and improve the scalability/security/reliability in keeping with GDPR and other standards.

The contract did not include specifics about transitioning ZwiftPower over to Zwift’s servers and team, and this is probably what led to some confusion and perhaps hurt feelings for some parties involved.

My opinion: it seems a shame that James and Glen aren’t being kept on the team to continue helping with ZwiftPower in some capacity. At this point in time, I don’t know where James and Glen stand when it comes to further involvement with ZwiftPower. But even as very part-time subcontractor consultants, their vast experience with ZwiftPower’s architecture and the overall structure of Zwift racing as we know it would seem to be an extremely valuable asset.

Up Next

As Zwift racers, we all want continued access to ZwiftPower’s functionality – it provides many core features which make racing on Zwift really “work.” And we certainly see the value in integrating those features into Zwift’s overall web, game, and Companion products.

I’m in touch with Zwift and we’re talking through their plans to support/manage ZwiftPower moving forward, as well as how they’re going to be transitioning it into Zwift’s overall product. So watch for another post in the next week or two with more on this topic!

I’ve also reached out to James and Glen to get their perspectives, so we may hear more from them as well.

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Final Standings – Men’s Team Classifications – Virtual Tour de France

Eric Schlange
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Final Standings – Men’s Team Classifications – Virtual Tour de France

Below are the final team standings for each classification of the men’s Virtual Tour de France 2020.

Notes:

  • Since this was a team competition, Zwift did not provide complete finishing lists of riders beyond the top 10 shown in each broadcast.
  • Teams holding a jersey selected 1 rider from their team of 4 riders to wear it

General Time Classification

First 25 riders score points at the finish. Points are awarded as follows:

Finish: 50 / 40 / 35 / 30 / 27 / 25 / 23 / 21 / 19 / 17 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1

The team with the most combined points earns the yellow jersey.

YELLOW JERSEYSt 1St 2St 3St 4St 5St 6Total
1NTT PRO CYCLING TEAM80506370128109500
2RALLY CYCLING791364323148267
3TREK – SEGAFREDO2854035961232
4EF PRO CYCLING05322346636211
5TEAM INEOS171930145540175
6ISRAEL START – UP NATION2750117300161
7MITCHELTON – SCOTT3503540524139
8ALPECIN – FENIX7222501722138
9GROUPAMA – FDJ0040352710112
10AG2R LA MONDIALE10222923210105
11CCC TEAM31300131217103
12COFIDIS15001215684
13CIRCUS – WANTY GOBERT11018313550
14TOTAL DIRECT ENERGIE4021150747
15LOTTO SOUDAL21131000044
16TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC801100019
17B&B HOTELS – VITAL CONCEPT P / B KTM000101415
17BAHRAIN – MCLAREN00800715
17TEAM SUNWEB00078015
20DECEUNINCK – QUICK – STEP6000006
21ASTANA PRO TEAM3000003
22TEAM JUMBO – VISMA0000011

Sprint Classification

Sprint points are awarded at intermediate locations and at the finish of each stage.

Intermediate: 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Finish: 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1

The team with the most combined sprint points earns the green jersey.

GREEN JERSEYSt 1St 2St 3St 4St 5St 6Total
1NTT PRO CYCLING TEAM702467273471293
2ALPECIN – FENIX13103001080143
3MITCHELTON – SCOTT5203311440140
4CCC TEAM3962016030111
5TREK – SEGAFREDO13149774292
6RALLY CYCLING201161163387
7EF PRO CYCLING0152710102183
8GROUPAMA – FDJ00121603260
9ISRAEL START – UP NATION9137300059
10COFIDIS41710146657
11AG2R LA MONDIALE40131313043
12LOTTO SOUDAL2301003036
13TEAM INEOS110707934
14DECEUNINCK – QUICK – STEP140000014
14TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC00608014
16B&B HOTELS – VITAL CONCEPT P / B KTM000021113
16TOTAL DIRECT ENERGIE20500613
18CIRCUS – WANTY GOBERT002100012
19TEAM JUMBO – VISMA100000010
20BAHRAIN – MCLAREN0010045
21BORA – HANSGROHE1000001

Best Climber Classification

Points are awarded based on the difficulty of the climb:

Category 1 (Chalet-Reynard Finish / Stage 5): 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 / 8 / 6 / 4 / 2
Category 2 (Epic KOM / Stage 2): 10 / 8 / 6 / 4 / 2 / 1
Category 3 (Remaning K/QOM / Stages 1,3,4,5): 3 / 2 / 1

The team with the most combined points earns the polka dot jersey.

POLKA DOT JERSEYSt 1St 2St 3St 4St 5St 6Total
1NTT PRO CYCLING TEAM202256062
2EF PRO CYCLING064020030
3ISRAEL START – UP NATION3140110028
4ALPECIN – FENIX100616023
5TEAM INEOS020014016
6RALLY CYCLING100012013
7COFIDIS08020010
8AG2R LA MONDIALE1002609
9GROUPAMA – FDJ0005005
10MITCHELTON – SCOTT3001004
11B&B HOTELS – VITAL CONCEPT P / B KTM0000202
11BAHRAIN – MCLAREN2000002
11LOTTO SOUDAL1100002
14TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC1000001

Best Young Rider Classification

First 10 riders born after January 1st, 1995 score points at the finish. Points are awarded as follows:

Finish: 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1

Team points are not combined. Each team should align at least one young rider in the roster for each stage to compete for this classification.

WHITE JERSEYSt 1St 2St 3St 4St 5St 6Total
1NTT PRO CYCLING TEAM7107810951
2TEAM INEOS498791047
3GROUPAMA – FDJ3010108738
4RALLY CYCLING104090831
5TREK – SEGAFREDO68527230
6LOTTO SOUDAL87135327
7COFIDIS50256422
8MITCHELTON – SCOTT00940619
9ALPECIN – FENIX90004518
10EF PRO CYCLING0566–017
11AG2R LA MONDIALE1630––10
12TEAM JUMBO – VISMA0240309
13BORA – HANSGROHE21–0––3
13ISRAEL START – UP NATION03–0––3

Most Combative

A Twitter poll conducted during the race will choose the 3 most combative riders of the stage.

Points are awarded as follows: 5 / 3 / 1

MOST COMBATIVESt 1St 2St 3St 4St 5St 6Total
1NTT PRO CYCLING TEAM50533117
2EF PRO CYCLING0300508
2MITCHELTON – SCOTT3000058
2TREK – SEGAFREDO0035008
5TEAM INEOS0500106
6ALPECIN – FENIX1000034
7AG2R LA MONDIALE0110002
8ISRAEL START – UP NATION0001001

Team Overall General Classication

The team with the most combined points across all competitions (GC, K/QOM, Sprint, Young Rider, and Most Combative) will have yellow markers on the back of the jerseys. The marker will only be visible in the broadcast of the race. Riders in the race will not see the markers.

OVERALL TEAM GCSt 1St 2St 3St 4St 5St 6Total
1NTT PRO CYCLING TEAM16484144110231190923
2RALLY CYCLING1101880524989398
3TREK – SEGAFREDO21107574923105362
4EF PRO CYCLING082595010157349
5ALPECIN – FENIX1053241137110326
6MITCHELTON – SCOTT9307756975310
7TEAM INEOS224545218659278
8ISRAEL START – UP NATION39801811500252
9GROUPAMA – FDJ3062663549215
10CCC TEAM703620291247214
11COFIDIS107512332716173
12AG2R LA MONDIALE16294638400169
13LOTTO SOUDAL532121383109
14CIRCUS – WANTY GOBERT110201313562
15TOTAL DIRECT ENERGIE60261501360
16TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC901708034
17B&B HOTELS – VITAL CONCEPT P / B KTM000142530
18BAHRAIN – MCLAREN209001122
19DECEUNINCK – QUICK – STEP200000020
19TEAM JUMBO – VISMA102403120
21TEAM SUNWEB00078015
22BORA – HANSGROHE3100004
23ASTANA PRO TEAM3000003

Final Standings – Women’s Team Classifications – Virtual Tour de France

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Final Standings – Women’s Team Classifications – Virtual Tour de France

Below are the final team standings for each classification of the women’s Virtual Tour de France 2020.

Notes:

  • Since this was a team competition, Zwift did not provide complete finishing lists of riders beyond the top 10 shown in each broadcast.
  • Teams holding a jersey selected 1 rider from their team of 4 riders to wear it

General Time Classification

First 25 riders score points at the finish. Points are awarded as follows:

Finish: 50 / 40 / 35 / 30 / 27 / 25 / 23 / 21 / 19 / 17 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1

The team with the most combined points earns the yellow jersey.

YELLOW JERSEYSt 1St 2St 3St 4St 5St 6Total
1TEAM TIBCO – SILICON VALLEY BANK70100278013290499
2TEAM TWENTY20422869502691306
3DROPS694041693340292
4CANYON / /SRAM RACING662583324125272
5CCC – LIV3033814671216
6TEAM SUNWEB53212723531187
7FDJ NOUVELLE – AQUITAINE FUTUROSCOPE133027122027129
7CERATIZIT – WNT PRO CYCLING TEAM31352123019129
9RALLY CYCLING26391202012109
10BOELS DOLMANS CYCLING TEAM472212101597
11LOTTO SOUDAL LADIES00170252870
12TREK – SEGAFREDO81701402362
13ALE’ BTC LJUBLJANA000258033
14PARKHOTEL VALKENBURG000250025
15TEAM ARKEA00500510
16VALCAR – TRAVEL & SERVICE0600006

Sprint Classification

Sprint points are awarded at intermediate locations and at the finish of each stage.

Intermediate: 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Finish: 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1

The team with the most combined sprint points earns the green jersey.

GREEN JERSEYSt 1St 2St 3St 4St 5St 6Total
1TEAM TIBCO – SILICON VALLEY BANK5835273443153350
2CANYON / /SRAM RACING81695211140254
3DROPS221849321341175
4CCC – LIV6125691194
5TEAM TWENTY2061131303770
6LOTTO SOUDAL LADIES001055864
7TREK – SEGAFREDO28321110063
8CERATIZIT – WNT PRO CYCLING TEAM20161241062
9BOELS DOLMANS CYCLING TEAM4100501460
10FDJ NOUVELLE – AQUITAINE FUTUROSCOPE3170661547
11TEAM SUNWEB620122628
12RALLY CYCLING400091427
13PARKHOTEL VALKENBURG00017017
14VALCAR – TRAVEL & SERVICE0000077
15ALE’ BTC LJUBLJANA001102

Best Climber Classification

Points are awarded based on the difficulty of the climb:

Category 1 (Chalet-Reynard Finish / Stage 5): 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 / 8 / 6 / 4 / 2
Category 2 (Epic KOM / Stage 2): 10 / 8 / 6 / 4 / 2 / 1
Category 3 (Remaning K/QOM / Stages 1,3,4,5): 3 / 2 / 1

The team with the most combined points earns the polka dot jersey.

POLKA DOT JERSEYSt 1St 2St 3St 4St 5St 6Total
1TEAM TIBCO – SILICON VALLEY BANK02166069
2DROPS12861411051
3CCC – LIV010022023
4CERATIZIT – WNT PRO CYCLING TEAM710500022
5CANYON / /SRAM RACING44006014
6LOTTO SOUDAL LADIES000010010
7FDJ NOUVELLE – AQUITAINE FUTUROSCOPE0600309
8TEAM SUNWEB0001405
9PARKHOTEL VALKENBURG0003003
10BOELS DOLMANS CYCLING TEAM1000001

Best Young Rider Classification

First 10 riders born after January 1st, 1995 score points at the finish. Points are awarded as follows:

Finish: 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1

Team points are not combined. Each team should align at least one young rider in the roster for each stage to compete for this classification.

WHITE JERSEYSt 1St 2St 3St 4St 5St 6Total
1CANYON / /SRAM RACING8108710851
2DROPS10491071050
3TEAM TWENTY20951088949
4TEAM SUNWEB69599543
5CCC – LIV77754333
6LOTTO SOUDAL LADIES43621723
7RALLY CYCLING08035622
8TEAM ARKEA50440417
9ALE’ BTC LJUBLJANA12066116
10VALCAR – TRAVEL & SERVICE26213014
11PARKHOTEL VALKENBURG31302211

Most Combative

A Twitter poll conducted during the race will choose the 3 most combative riders of the stage.

Points are awarded as follows: 5 / 3 / 1

MOST COMBATIVESt 1St 2St 3St 4St 5St 6Total
1CERATIZIT – WNT PRO CYCLING TEAM33050011
2LOTTO SOUDAL LADIES0010539
3FDJ NOUVELLE – AQUITAINE FUTUROSCOPE0530008
4TEAM TIBCO – SILICON VALLEY BANK0003317
5CCC – LIV0000156
6TREK – SEGAFREDO5000005
6TWENTY200050005
8DROPS1001002
9CANYON / /SRAM RACING0100001

Team Overall General Classification

The team with the most combined points across all competitions (GC, K/QOM, Sprint, Young Rider, and Most Combative) will have yellow markers on the back of the jerseys. The marker will only be visible in the broadcast of the race. Riders in the race will not see the markers.

OVERALL TEAM GCSt 1St 2St 3St 4St 5St 6Total
1TEAM TIBCO – SILICON VALLEY BANK12813755123238244925
2CANYON / /SRAM RACING15946186606873592
3DROPS114701051266491570
4TEAM TWENTY205734977134137430
5CCC – LIV4353144181059372
6TEAM SUNWEB174317945042263
7CERATIZIT – WNT PRO CYCLING TEAM616438321019224
8FDJ NOUVELLE – AQUITAINE FUTUROSCOPE165830182942193
9LOTTO SOUDAL LADIES432524696176
10RALLY CYCLING30471233432158
10BOELS DOLMANS CYCLING TEAM8922126029158
12TREK – SEGAFREDO41202125023130
13PARKHOTEL VALKENBURG313452256
14ALE’ BTC LJUBLJANA1213214151
15TEAM ARKEA50940927
15VALCAR – TRAVEL & SERVICE212213727

Holden Comeau & Matt Gardiner on eRacing – Never Going Pro Podcast S2 E8

Shayne Gaffney
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Holden Comeau & Matt Gardiner on eRacing – Never Going Pro Podcast S2 E8

In this episode, we chat with Holden Comeau and Matt Gardiner of Team Saris + The Pro’s Closet about all things eRacing including; where they think it’s headed; differences in training, strategy, psychology, and nutrition compared to IRL racing; and what it’s like to set a Guinness World Record. Enjoy!

About the Podcast

Never Going Pro is a new podcast about riding bikes, being parents… and trying super hard at both. Hosted by Shayne Gaffney, Ken Nowell, and Chris Gorney. See all episodes on Soundcloud. Also available on Stitcher, iTunes, and other major podcast providers.

A Chat with the Z Pro Tri June Invitational Winners (Zwift PowerUp Tri Podcast)

Eric Schlange
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A Chat with the Z Pro Tri June Invitational Winners (Zwift PowerUp Tri Podcast)

After the Z Pro Tri invitational series, Matt sits down with the two winners, Teresa Adam and Lionel Sanders, to talk about their big wins. We talk series tactics, what surprised them with the racing, and how fun it was to get their competitive juices flowing with their peers during this downtime. Includes some great stuff from both athletes about how they are managing this summer and what they are doing to stay motivated!

About the Podcast:

The Zwift PowerUp Tri Podcast is hosted by former pro triathletes Matt Lieto and Jordan Rapp, lending their in-depth knowledge of the multisport to the Zwift Tri audience.

4 Zwift Events Not To Miss This Weekend

Eric Schlange
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4 Zwift Events Not To Miss This Weekend

This weekend concludes the Virtual Tour de France along with the massively popular L’Etape du Tour series. You’ll want to participate in those, but there are a couple of other standout events as well – here are our picks!

Special thanks to Jesper at ZwiftHacks with his Events app which provides powerful event filtering tools that help us create this list each week.

L’Etape du Tour, Stage 3

This weekend is the final stage of L’Etape du Tour, and it’s a tough one! Come take on the Ven-Top route, which takes you up Zwift’s newest and longest climb – Mont Ventoux! The timed climb section is 19km long, with 1480 meters of elevation gain.

Tens of thousands of Zwifters will be there suffering together so we’ll have solidarity if nothing else…

Multiple event times, visit the event homepage for schedule and signup

Watch the Virtual Tour de France, Stages 5 & 6

Tomorrow is our final weekend of Virtual Tour de France action, and you don’t want to miss it, as the two race routes are the most iconic yet – Mont Ventoux and Champs-Élysées!

The pro teams are bringing some big guns to these final stages, too. Start lists include Chris Froome, Julian Alaphilippe, Rigoberto Urán, Romain Bardet, Adam Yates, Rohan Dennis, Warren Barguil, and Dan Martin for the men, while the women include Lizzie Deignan, Marianne Vos, Chloé Dygert, Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, Anna van der Breggen, Kasia Niewiadoma, Katie Hall, and Cecilie Uttrup-Ludwig.

Watch the racing on Zwift’s Youtube channel >

Stage 3: Saturday at 1:53pm BST/8:53am EDT/5:53am PDT
Stage 4: Sunday at 1:50pm BST/8:50am EDT/5:50am PDT

Sport for Good Peloton (Nelson Mandela Day)

Founded under the patronage of the great Nelson Mandela, Laureus Sport for Good uses sport as a powerful and cost-effective tool to help children and young people overcome violence, discrimination, and disadvantage in their lives.

South Africa’s team NTT Cycling, collectively Laureus Ambassadors, have traditionally celebrated Mandela Day on July 18, while taking part in the Tour de France. July 18, 2020 marks the 20th Nelson Mandela International Day. In honor of this, Zwift is hosting two group rides supported by South Africa’s NTT pro cyclists as well as other Laureus Ambassadors.

Nelson Mandela spent 67 years of his life fighting for social justice, so we’ll be riding for 67 minutes. Groups are categorized by pace.

Want to contribute? Head to the donation page.

Multiple times, see schedule for details and signup

ZHR Audax

Ready to go long? You won’t find many group rides on Zwift that go for 300km! The ZHR Audax rides aren’t a race, but a personal challenge. An Audax is a cycling event in which participants attempt to cycle the distance within a pre-defined time limit. It is a non-competitive sport: success in an event is measured by its completion within the specified time limits, and receive equal recognition regardless of their finishing order.

The category you select determines your length:

  • Group A – 300km
  • Group B – 200km
  • Group C – 161km
  • Group D – 100km
  • Group E – 50km

Three events this weekend:
Saturday at 9:15am BST/4:15am EDT/1:15am PDT
Sunday at 9:15am BST/4:15am EDT/1:15am PDT
Sunday at 4pm BST/11am EDT/8am PDT

Your Thoughts

Got other events that stand out this weekend? Share below in the comments!

Virtual Tour de France Special: Mont Ventoux, the Champs-Élysées, and PowerUp Timing (Zwift PowerUp Cycling Podcast)

Eric Schlange
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Virtual Tour de France Special: Mont Ventoux, the Champs-Élysées, and PowerUp Timing (Zwift PowerUp Cycling Podcast)

The final stages of the Virtual Tour de France are looming and there is so much to get excited about as the pros take on Mont Ventoux and the Champs-Élysées this weekend – two legendary routes which will soon be available in Zwift.

It’s a full house as Matt Rowe, Dani Rowe, Kristen Armstrong, and Greg Henderson also take a look at last weekend’s action to debate the age-old topic, when do you use your PowerUps in races? And just when you think we couldn’t pack more into this episode, Dani and Kristin talk about their new training program which launched last week!

Catch post-race interviews every Monday and mid-week updates every Thursday until the end of the Virtual Tour de France.  

About the Podcast

The Zwift PowerUp Cycling Podcast features training tips from host Matt Rowe (Rowe & King), with regular co-hosts Greg Henderson (Coach Hendy) and Kev Poulton (Powerhouse Cycling).

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