“Three Musketeers” Route Details
See zwiftinsider.com/route/three-musketeers/
Age-Based Zwift Women’s Racing Series Announced for May 2025
Age-Based Zwift Women’s Racing Series Announced for May 2025
Zwift’s Women’s Racing Series has always been popular, and they’ve just announced the first such series for 2025. Created in partnership with FemmeCycle Collab, it runs across 4 races in the month of May.
It’s somewhat experimental, too, because for the first time ever, these races will be age-based! Learn all the details below…
Age-Based Women’s Racing
Riders will automatically be placed in categories based on their age group:
- A: Under 30
- B: 30-39
- C: 40-49
- D: 50-59
- E: 60 and over
Overall GC winners will be those with the lowest overall time in your age group across the 4 races. You can also choose to participate in individual races and simply go for the win on the week.
Schedule and Routes
For the month of May, each stage will run at three different times each Tuesday (0630, 1730, 2330 UTC) and once each Saturday (1530 UTC).
- Stage 1 – May 6 & 10
- Loopin Lava (2 laps) – 32.7km, 408m elevation
- Stage 2 – May 13 & 17
- Turf N Surf (1 lap) – 24.7km, 198m elevation
- Stage 3 – May 20 & 24
- Coast to Coast (1 lap) – 26.7km, 164m elevation
- Stage 4 – May 27 & 31
- Outer Scotland (2 laps) – 22.4km, 208m elevation
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/zwiftwomensracingseries >
Where To Find Results
This series includes both an individual and team classification. For the team classification, points will be allocated for the top 3 times in your team per age group per time zone.
Important: to compete in the overall individual or team classifications, you must race at the same time each week.
Standings for the series can be found at:
- Tuesday Race 1: https://zwiftpower.com/league.php?id=2739
- Tuesday Race 2: https://zwiftpower.com/league.php?id=2740
- Tuesday Race 3: https://zwiftpower.com/league.php?id=2741
- Saturday Race: https://zwiftpower.com/league.php?id=2742
Additional Rules
- Hardware Requirements: to participate, you must be using a Smart Trainer, Smart Bike, or Power Meter. Sorry, no zPower riders. You must also be wearing a Heart Rate Monitor.
- Neutralized Bikes: Bikes and upgrades are neutralized. Pick your favourite!
- Mass Start: All riders (categories) will start together. Riders in each age group will wear the same kit so you can distinguish who you are racing against.
- One Aero Powerup: riders will start with an aero powerup in each event. You will receive no further powerups during the event, so make sure that you use it wisely!
About FCC
FemmeCycle Collab was created in 2023 to empower women in esports. For more information about these events, and others and news about Women’s Cycling on Zwift, please join us!
Questions or Comments?
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Woman Racer Spotlight: Susan C
Woman Racer Spotlight: Susan C
Name: Susan C
Hometown: Canadian prairies
How did you get into cycling? Hubby was involved, and I thought it looked like fun.
How many years have you been racing on Zwift? Since February 2021.
Are you part of a Virtual team? Yes, I joined Coalition when I joined Zwift.
What do you love most about racing? Racing helps give me a reason to train (and training gives me a reason to race). Racing is dynamic and often rewards those who are interested in technical analysis.
What is your favourite style of race (e.g. points, scratch, iTT, TTT, Chase, duathlon)? Indoors, I love scratch races and well-designed points races. Outside, I’m a fan of cyclocross and XC mountain bike races.
What’s your favourite Zwift women’s and mixed race series? I’m a big fan of the new FCC Mini Races (and the eSRT Ultimates) on Sundays. These races offer women of all abilities a chance to learn new skills, try some brave moves, and gain fitness on the weekend.
What is your most memorable racing experience, inside or outside or BOTH? I participated in a road stage race that raced from Banff to Lake Louise. Gorgeous!
What is your favourite food to eat post race? I can often be found munching on anything in sight.
What advice would you give to anyone entering her first Zwift race? Starting something new is the hardest. Sometimes racing bravely means lining up and trying an event. It doesn’t matter how you do. If you are interested in racing and aren’t sure how to start, please join the Femme Cycle Collab Discord server where we have a special area for new racers with loads of videos, reading material, and people to answer questions.
Any upcoming race you are looking forward to? I’m a big fan of the Zwift Women Spring Series. It brings a lot of gals together who I don’t normally get to see, and these are great mid-week workouts to help support my outdoor racing. I’m also looking forward to a fun outdoor season when our weather finally warms up. We have loads of amazing events this spring/summer.
Where can people follow your racing adventures? Join Coalition, and you can spend loads of time with me! I’m not much for sharing online, but I’m always happy to share tips and tricks to anyone who can track me down.
Updated: Veloviewer Route Hunter Leaderboards and Printable Route List
Updated: Veloviewer Route Hunter Leaderboards and Printable Route List
Zwift has been busy adding new routes and climb portals to the game, with ~20 new routes added since January and several climb portals as well.
As of today, our lists are all caught up to what’s in game. This includes:
- Veloviewer Route Hunter Leaderboards: contains all the badged routes in game, plus all the KOM segments. Compete with others or just yourself – you move up the leaderboard by completing all the segments (20 points per segment) but also score points based on finishing time.
- Veloviewer Climb Portal Leaderboards: same as above, but just for the Climb Portal. This one is trickier, since you can only ride portals when they are scheduled!
- Printable List of Zwift Routes by Difficulty: a list of all badged routes in game, sorted by difficulty based on our ZIMetrics and grouped by the approximate number of bidons you’ll need to drink to finish each route.
- Master Route List: this is always the first list to be updated (often before routes are publicly released). If you ever need route info, go here!
Strava Segment Matching Bug
On a related note: many Zwifters have noticed that, for the past year or so, Strava hasn’t been matching certain activities to certain segments. It’s an odd bug, because it doesn’t seem to apply to older segments. But newer ones – at least those created after April 2024, although we don’t have a precise date – are affected. It seems to apply to segments that include multiple loops of a circuit, or repeated sections of road.
The following segments/routes are affected by this bug, and have thus been removed from the Veloviewer leaderboards until Strava fixes the issue:
If you want to bend Strava’s ear about this, please reply to the topic I just created on Strava’s Community Hub.
Questions or Comments?
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Notable Zwift Events for the Weekend of April 26-27
We’re featuring a well-rounded mix of community-hosted events this weekend, including a super-short race in France, a very long group ride in London, two ladies-only events, and a beginner-friendly banded ride on a new France route. See our picks below!
🥇 Rhino Racing Macaron Super Sprint
✅ Tiny Route ✅ Route Badge
Zwift recently added several routes to their France map, including the super-short, one-way Macaron. Why create such a route? We aren’t sure, but you know we’re going to race it!
Join the Rhino Racing squad for what may be the shortest race of your Zwift career.
Multiple timeslots on Friday and Saturday
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/rhinosupersprint
🤝GXY Luna – Ladies Only Endurance Ride
✅ Ladies Only ✅ Beginner Friendly
Here’s a new ladies-only ride from the popular Galaxy Cycling Club. Led by experienced Zwifter and endurance coach Beth Greenaway, this weekly ride will vary between 60-100 minutes “to allow for a variety of routes and occasional badge hunting.” Beth’s beacon pace will be 1.6-2 w/kg.
On-screen and Discord chat are encouraged. Beth says this is an opportunity for ladies of all levels to ask questions and seek support in reaching their health, fitness, and performance goals.
This week’s kickoff ride is on 1 lap of Waisted 8 (30.9km, 144m).
Sunday, April 27 @ 8:10am UTC/4:10am ET/1:10am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4926547
🤝 Pretzels, Epics and Afterparties
✅ Endurance Challenge ✅ Route Badge ✅ Legacy Leaders
We’re featuring a ride on one of Zwift’s shortest routes, so why not feature this group ride on Zwift’s longest route? The Velos squad is hosting a series of rides on Zwift’s infamous pretzels and other epic rides. This ride officially stops after 2 hours, but riders can continue if they want to knock out London’s PRL Full, the longest route on Zwift (173.5km, 2634m).
The ride includes a yellow beacon who will ride at 2.5 w/kg, and a red beacon riding at 2 w/kg. Choose your pace!
Saturday, April 26 at 11am UTC/7am ET/4am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4958853
🥇 LEVEL Racing – Chase Race – Gentil 8
✅ Chase Race ✅ Women Only
I love a good chase race, and while I can’t join this one (it’s ladies only, after all) I want to support it for two reasons:
- Signup numbers are already looking really good
- Chase racing is a cool format I’d like to see more of on Zwift
Riders are on France’s new Gentil 8 route (25.8km, 258). Pick your category based on racing score, then work together to catch the groups up the road without getting caught by riders chasing from behind!
Saturday, April 26 at 2am UTC/10am ET/7am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4945103
🤝 LA MARCHA HISPANA (Enable Rubberbanding)
✅ Banded Ride ✅ Beginner-Friendly ✅ Route Badge
Join the HISP team on a banded ride around France’s new Knights of the Roundabout route (54.4km, 411m). As long as you keep pedaling, you’ll stay in the pack and knock out this route badge, grabbing some extra XP along the way!
Saturday, April 26 @ 8am UTC/4am ET/1am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4958792
How We Make Our Picks
We choose each weekend’s Notable Events based on a variety of factors including:
- Is the event unique/innovative in some way?
- Are celebrities (pro riders, etc) attending/leading?
- Are signup counts already high, meaning the event is extra-popular?
- Does the ride include desirable unlocks or prizes?
- Does the event appeal to ladies on Zwift? (We like to support this under-represented group!)
- Is it for a good cause?
- Is it just plain crazy (extra long races, world record attempts, etc)?
- Is it a long-running, popular weekly event with a dedicated leader who deserves a shout out?
In the end, we want to call attention to events that are extra-special and therefore extra-appealing to Zwifters. If you think your event qualifies, comment below with a link/details and we may just include it in an upcoming post!
Ten Years Ago Today on Zwift…
On April 24, 2015, Zwift launched Watopia. Here was their message to the small community of beta testers:
Together we’ve ridden 1 million miles (@1.6M km), 333K laps and climbed a total of 44M feet (@13.4M meters) on Zwift Island. That’s like climbing Mt Everest 1.5K times! We think that’s a big deal, so today we’ve launched our new course on the next isle to celebrate. Welcome to Watopia, your new home on Zwift!
As you can see, we’ve successfully moved and we’re ready for everyone to conquer our 10k course filled with fabulous vistas, bridges, and all new terrain. We’re still under construction so please be patient as we work to bring you the best ride possible (helmets encouraged!)…
See the full game release notes from Jon Mayfield posted April 24, 2015 >
A few fun facts:
- It took the beta testers 5 months to ride 1 million miles, while in December 2017 the community rode over 700,000 miles in just 24 hours in a major fundraiser event. But in 2024, Zwifters rode/ran 1.02 billion miles on the platform – that’s an average of 2.8 million miles per day!
- The “Zwift Island” referenced is Jarvis Island, the first Zwift course. The honey-hunting bear in Titans Grove is named Jarvis in honor of this original Zwift map, which relaunched in 2024 as part of Watopia.
- When first launched, Watopia had only one 9.1km route, known today as the Hilly Route. The next Watopia expansion was Ocean Boulevard on December 30, 2015. Today, Watopia is home to 116 routes (including some running-only routes).
- In between these Watopia updates, the Richmond, VA UCI Worlds course was released September 1, 2015.
- Today Zwift hosts 262 routes spread across 12 maps (in order of release): Watopia, Richmond, London, Innsbruck, New York, Bologna, Yorkshire, Crit City, France, Paris, Makuri Islands, and Scotland.
Tiny Race Series – April 26 Routes and Last Week’s Results
Tiny Race Series – April 26 Routes and Last Week’s Results
See zwiftinsider.com/tiny for current Tiny Race details.
Top 5 Zwift Videos: Zwift Community Live, Zwift Ride, and Feature Requests
Perhaps the coolest thing about Zwift Community Live was that it offered the chance to meet members of the Zwift community in real life. In this week’s top video, Kaite Kookaburra does just that!
We’ve also selected videos about using Zwift for weight loss, feature requests, the Elite Zwift Games, and the new Zwift Companion Fitness Tracker.
Meeting Mark Cavendish and Riding Sa Calobra!! // Zwift Community Live Day 3
The Zwift Ride Actually Helps You Lose Weight!
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Uphill Zwift Sprints are Brutal
Zwift Fitness Tracker: All You Need to Know in 3 Minutes
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