✅ Double XP 　✅ Popular 　✅ New Routes 　✅ Jersey Unlock

The new Zwift Unlocked series kicked off this week, with double XP, double powerups, and fresh routes. Stage 1 ends this weekend, and riders have a choice between a long ride on Tropic Rush (41.9km, 326m) or a shorter ride (or race) on Dùn Dash (12.4km, 139m). Runners are on the new Highland Run (6.8km)

Read all about the Zwift Unlocked series >

Multiple timeslots this weekend
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✅ Popular 　✅ Long Race 　✅ Age-Based　✅ Unique Event

The single event with the most signups this weekend is this new series from Team Foudre – a weekly “medio fondo” featuring age-based groupings and a women-only category. These first four events, held on four consecutive weekends in October, serve as a sort of “pre-series,” where your best two results count towards the overall. An overall 2025/2026 begins in November (see event description for details).

This weekend’s race is on two laps of Chasing the Sun in Makuri Islands (70.2km, 628m)

Sunday, October 12 @ 7:45am UTC/3:45am ET/12:45am PT
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✅ Stage Race　✅ Unique Event　✅ Popular

Based on early signup numbers, this race series is also a popular one! It’s a 4-stage series, raced each weekend, with mass starts and no categories. Stage three is this weekend on London Uprising (20.9km, 356m).

Enter individual races for the fun of it, or compete in all four stages. There’s a GC on ZwiftPower which uses cumulative time to rank riders across the series!

Multiple timeslots this weekend
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✅ Unique Event 　✅ Tough Climb

Team Not Pogi has organized a race mirroring the pro peloton who will be racing Il Lombardia, the last monument of the season, on Saturday. This race has rides taking on 32.5km of the Bologna Time Trial route, which means you’ll you up and down the challenging San Luca climb twice!

Saturday, October 11 @ 5:20pm UTC/1:20pm ET/10:20am PT
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✅ Beginner Friendly 　✅ Legacy Leaders

Looking for a fun social ride? Join the experienced DBR time for 60 minutes on the Douce France route. The ride leader will keep a pace at 30-35kph, but you aren’t limited to that speed – the ride description says “… it’s ok to ride ahead and join other riders in front – just remember to be social.”

Sunday, October 12 @ 7:55am UTC/3:55am ET/12:55am PT
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✅ Celebrity Leaders 　✅ Popular 　✅ Banded

It’s Zwift’s birthday celebration this weekend, since the platform turns 11 years old this fall – and Zwift is holding a series of events with celebrity leaders to celebrate! Each ride is on a different route with different leaders, but they’re all 45-minute banded rides.

Read all about Zwift’s Big Weekend >

Note: Zwift is also holding its biggest sale ever on the Zwift Ride with KICKR CORE 2. See this post for details…

Multiple timeslots this weekend
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✅ Long Race 　✅ Age-Based　✅ Unique Event

Here’s a fun and unique event concept – a weekly series of “medio fondos” featuring age-based groupings. Team Foudre is organizing this series, and it appears that the first four events, held on four consecutive weekends in October, serve as a sort of “pre-series,” where your best two results count towards the overall. (See event description for details.)

The series kicks off this weekend with a race on Big Foot Hills in Watopia (69.9km, 714m).

Sunday, October 5 @ 7:45am UTC/3:45am ET/12:45am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5106370

✅ Good Cause　✅ Banded Ride　✅ Beginner-Friendly

Join Team Vegan in a ride on World Animal Day, a day that “unites the animal welfare movement, mobilizing it into a global force to make the world a better place for all animals.”

This is a 60-minute banded ride on Wandering Flats, so as long as you pedal, you’ll stay with the group.

Saturday, October 4 @ 2:15pm UTC/10:15am ET/7:15am PT
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✅ Fresh Ride Host 　✅ Beginner-Friendly 　✅ Banded

The USMeS Team holds a 100km ride every Saturday, but on the first Saturday of the month it’s a 100 mile event. This month they’re riding on London’s PRL Full (173.8km, 2628m).

If you’ve been wanting to knock this route out, this is a great way to do it… because long rides are always better with friends!

Rider leader will pace at 2.2 w/kg average, but all paces are welcome.

Saturday, October 4 @ 12:50pm UTC/8:50am ET/5:50am PT
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✅ Endurance Challenge　✅ Legacy Leaders

We’ve featured this event many times in the past, as it’s always well-attended and well-led at paces that helps everyone stay together. Experienced leaders and sweepers do their best to keep the groups together so everyone can work together to knock out a long ride!

This week’s ride has two pace category options: a D pace of 1.7-2.2 W/kg, or a C pace of 2.5-2.8 W/kg. Both groups will ride 3 laps of Watopia’s Triple Flat Loops for a total length of 104.2km and 476 meters of climbing.

Sunday, October 5 @ 7:05am UTC/3:05am ET/12:05am PT
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