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    Zwift Insider Tiny Race Series Announced

    Eric Schlange
    By Eric Schlange
    July 26, 2022
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    This Saturday we’re spinning up the first in a set of weekly races dubbed the “Tiny Race Series”. Each week will feature four short events raced back-to-back in under an hour. It’s a great way to earn ZwiftPower ranking points, get a solid VO2 workout, and just have fun going all-out in a different sort of Zwift race!

    The idea is to race all four events, earning points in each event based on your finishing position. The overall winners (available on ZwiftPower) are the riders with the most points across all four races.

    With three timezones and four categories, we’ll be crowning twelve winners each week.

    Just One Powerup

    Each tiny race will feature just one powerup, given each time riders go through an arch. That way, everyone knows what everyone has, and there’s no “luck of the draw”! (See powerup details under “Route Details” below).

    Schedule

    Each race is on a different route, all around 5km long, so they’ll each take 6-10 minutes to complete. Races are scheduled 15 minutes apart, so you can sign up and race all four in under an hour.

    There are three timezones/leagues set up so Zwifters can find a time slot that suits them well.

    These may shift in coming weeks, but for the kickoff races this Saturday, here are the start times for each timezone:

    • Saturday, July 30 starting at 8am UTC (6pm AEST/4am EDT/1am PDT)
    • Saturday, July 30 starting at 2pm UTC (midnight AEST/10am EDT/7am PDT)
    • Saturday, July 30 starting at 8pm UTC (6am Sunday AEST/4pm EDT/1pm PDT)

    Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/tinyraces

    Categories

    • Category Enforcement is being applied to enforce a minimum category for each rider
    • Each category starts 1 minute apart, with faster categories going first
    • All riders will be visible on course

    Route Details

    Each week will feature a different mix of routes and powerups. Here are the route details for our first week:

    • Race 1: Neokyo Crit Course
      • 1 lap, 4.7km total
      • Powerup: Draft Boost
    • Race 2: Bell Lap
      • 2 laps, 4km total
      • Powerup: Ghost
    • Race 3: LaGuardia Loop Reverse
      • 1 lap, 5.3km total
      • Powerup: Aero Boost
    • Race 4: Volcano Circuit
      • 1 lap, 6.9km total
      • Powerup: Feather

    Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/tinyraces

    ZwiftPower Results + League

    As usual, Zwift will display preliminary results when you cross the line, but final race results will be on ZwiftPower.

    Riders will earn points based on finish position in each of the 4 Tiny Races. The category winner of each week’s series is the rider with the most points across their timezone’s 4 races. Here are the links for each timezone’s results on ZwiftPower:

    • Zone 1 (8am UTC)
    • Zone 2 (2pm UTC)
    • Zone 3 (8pm UTC)

    Note: HR monitors are required if you want to show up in the final results.

    Zwift Insider Kit Unlock

    Complete any of the race events and unlock the Zwift Insider “Ride smarter, ride harder” kit!

    Questions or Comments?

    Post below!

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      Eric Schlange
      Eric Schlangehttp://www.zwiftinsider.com
      Eric runs Zwift Insider in his spare time when he isn't on the bike or managing various business interests. He lives in Northern California with his beautiful wife, two kids and dog. Follow on Strava

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      Carsten Re. from Germany
      Carsten Re. from Germany
      14 days ago

      Thinking about 4 short hard races, my legs are already crying 🙅‍♂️🥵 … but I ignore them during signing in 🙈🤣

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      Rick wenger
      Rick wenger(@rwenger)
      14 days ago

      Is there a way to disable auto join? Don’t want to get pulled to another race accidentally.

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      14 days ago
      Reply to  Rick wenger

      I had the same question – so I tested it. In my tests, the event prompt didn’t even pop up until AFTER the events finished. Not sure if this is something Zwift changed recently, or an anomaly on my side… but it worked nicely.

      Guess we’ll find out after this week! Autojoin only kicks in with around 3-4 minutes to go anyway, so it shouldn’t be an issue for most riders with this week’s fast courses.

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      Steve Fish
      Steve Fish(@stephen-fischer)
      11 days ago
      Reply to  Eric Schlange

      Eric, in a similar 4x 15min short race format earlier this week, we had issues with auto-join causing some riders to be teleported to the next race before finishing the race they were on (because they didn’t click to cancel auto-join).
      Zwift HQ has now configured a 1min auto-join delay for our short races next week, you might want to request the same. Unfortunately, there’s no way to disable auto-join altogether.

      I look forward to doing this tiny race series on Sat. Thanks for organizing!

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      11 days ago
      Reply to  Steve Fish

      Good info, Steve. I may just do that.

      It’s weird that auto join behaved how it did in the events I tested.

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      Steve Fish
      Steve Fish(@stephen-fischer)
      11 days ago
      Reply to  Eric Schlange

      We had some riders go beyond 10mins for the race, and then the auto-join kicked in at 5min (default I think) before the next race. I think they were too focused on punching the climb, that they missed the cancel popup.

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      11 days ago
      Reply to  Rick wenger

      Update on this: I got James @ ZHQ to modify the events to delay the auto-join further, so it will happen just 1 minute before the next race. I realized today that I hadn’t tested the auto-join functionality correctly… because I hadn’t waited until that 4 minutes to go mark. What I noticed is that, if you’re more than 4 minute out, the next event’s info doesn’t even pop up at the bottom-left. But once you hit that auto-join window, it pops up and counts down. Which isn’t ideal for this sort of race, so now that should only happen… Read more »

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      Darrick Bissell
      Darrick Bissell
      14 days ago

      What is the point system?

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      14 days ago
      Reply to  Darrick Bissell

      Haven’t entered it on ZwiftPower yet, since the new events aren’t in the system yet. 🙂

      But it’s just finishing points. I’ll probably do points like this: (50, 45, 40, 38, 36, 34, 32, 30, 28, 26, 24, 22, 20, 18, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1)

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      Road Kill (DGDC)
      Road Kill (DGDC)
      14 days ago

      Okay, I’m all signed up and I’m going to be chasing the points title! What kind of title do I get if I come in dead last in every stage?

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      Adam Dawson
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      Adam Dawson(@adawson)
      14 days ago
      Reply to  Road Kill (DGDC)

      You would have to cleverly manage that so that you don’t miss the start of the next event. It could be a funny challenge actually.

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      13 days ago
      Reply to  Road Kill (DGDC)

      How about “Biggest Loser”?

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      Adam Dawson
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      Adam Dawson(@adawson)
      14 days ago

      So you’re actively trying to kill us now

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      13 days ago
      Reply to  Adam Dawson

      What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

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      Carsten Re. from Germany
      Carsten Re. from Germany
      13 days ago
      Reply to  Eric Schlange

      if surviving is possible has to be verified at Saturday 🤷🏻‍♂️ … I think I will better quit Time Zone 1 to check this out first 🤣

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      Carsten Re. from Germany
      Carsten Re. from Germany
      13 days ago
      Reply to  Adam Dawson

      Hahaha … that’s Eric’s smart strategy for his future posts “How the race was won” … 😉

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      Its.Yozza
      Its.Yozza(@andrew-hughes)
      9 days ago
      Reply to  Adam Dawson

      Charlie, Richard Vale, the DIRT Admins, and now Eric, on a not so clandestine mission to bean most racers of Zwift.

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      Christian Kjaer
      Christian Kjaer
      13 days ago

      Nice kit!

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      Fabian
      Fabian
      13 days ago

      Nice one!

      • “Race 2: Bell Lap
      • 2 laps, 4km total
      • Powerup: Ghost”

      I have an idea where we would loose sight of Eric ^^ Unfortunately, I won’t make it in the first two weeks.

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      Emilio
      Emilio
      12 days ago

      This sounds interesting, for short races in an hour. My doubts as a Low D rider (1.7 w/kg) is if I will have enogh time to finish the first three before the next one started. Because even there is 15 min between races, I know forn the Giant Gravel last June, that the op up for the next race appears on screen from 3:30 to 3 min before the start, so taht leaves less than 12 min to complet each of the 3 courses. But I’ll trya anyway.

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      Don't DQ me bro!!
      Don't DQ me bro!!
      12 days ago

      Are the points for each week stand alone, or do the points accumulate over the following weeks?

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      11 days ago
      Reply to  Don't DQ me bro!!

      Each week stands alone.

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      Joe Randall
      Joe Randall
      11 days ago

      Sounds fun!! Getting ready for Zwift season.

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      Henrik Abild
      Henrik Abild
      10 days ago

      Hi Eric

      I did all four Tiny Races today, 30/7-2022 but it didn’t unlock the Zwift Insider Kit so what to do?

      By the way, great races, hard but great.

      Br
      Henrik Abild (DZR DK)

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      Henrik Abild
      Henrik Abild
      9 days ago
      Reply to  Henrik Abild

      Hi Eric
      Is there by any chance an explanation to this?
      Br
      Henrik

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      Eric Schlange
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      9 days ago
      Reply to  Henrik Abild

      See my comment below…

      Last edited 8 days ago by Eric Schlange
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      Derek
      Derek(@dpr4473)
      10 days ago

      So how many weeks does this race series last?

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      9 days ago
      Reply to  Derek

      I’m not sure! Each week is a standalone thing. I may just make it an ongoing event, who knows? Or perhaps intersperse it with the ZI Rebel Race series.

      I’ll definitely be doing it (with a different mix of routes each week) for a few more weeks.

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      Kevin
      Kevin
      10 days ago

      Just finished and I had a blast – thanks for organising it and a great idea btw. 👍👌

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      Paul Preijer
      Paul Preijer
      10 days ago

      Hi Eric, great idea! Gave me the motivation to get up earlier than usual and start the day well 👍

      One tiny note, I think that in timezone 1 the third race dropped out of the results. Saw only people with 3 events in the standings, and I’m pretty sure most guys raced 4 events 😉

      But great racing with a nice big field (around a 100 racers each stage in C categorie). Will certainly try to race again next week!

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      10 days ago
      Reply to  Paul Preijer

      Yeah, there’s some issue with ZwiftPower where it isn’t picking up all 4 races. Same issue in both timezones that have raced so far. Trying to see if there’s a way to get it fixed…

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      Eric Schlange
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      9 days ago
      Reply to  Paul Preijer

      Got it fixed and figured out a workaround so ZwiftPower calculates the points properly.

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      Paul Preijer
      Paul Preijer
      9 days ago
      Reply to  Eric Schlange

      Thanks!

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      Darrick Bissell
      Darrick Bissell
      10 days ago

      Is it best 3 out of 4? Only seeing 3 races on Zwift power for Z1 so far. Thanks

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      Darrick Bissell
      Darrick Bissell
      10 days ago
      Reply to  Darrick Bissell

      Just saw one of your replies on this. Yeah, hope it gets fixed.

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      Tim Sunderland
      Tim Sunderland
      10 days ago

      Brilliant Eric….. loved the format…. let’s have more

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      Eric Schlange
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      10 days ago
      Reply to  Tim Sunderland

      Will do! Stay tuned for next week’s routes!

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      David White (NZ)
      David White (NZ)
      9 days ago

      That was fun! (Thanks, Eric.) What is the plan for next week? And how many weeks (so that I can see if I need to extend my life insurance policy)?

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      Eric Schlange
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      9 days ago
      Reply to  David White (NZ)

      Next week will be a similar setup, but 4 different routes. Including some custom length ones nobody has ever done! Watch for a ZI post about it…

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      Its.Yozza
      Its.Yozza(@andrew-hughes)
      9 days ago

      That was tough work. Especially between 2 & 3, it was a rough recovery.

      Suggestion: I would have something that rounded it out a bit for the lighter riders, as for the big hitters, it was rinse & repeat – maybe Hilly Route or something, Start Downtown pens to the bottom of that little KOM next to Downtown. An alternative might be one of the NYC routes that goes straight into a climb. Or maybe that is a hillclimb series 😉

      https://veloviewer.com/segment/12109030

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      Eric Schlange
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      9 days ago
      Reply to  Its.Yozza

      Don’t worry, hillier routes will arrive next week!

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      David White (NZ)
      David White (NZ)
      9 days ago
      Reply to  Eric Schlange

      “Hillier routes” – oh no. Actually, for something completely different, I’d love a race from the top of AdZ on MTBs!?

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      Steve Fish
      Steve Fish(@stephen-fischer)
      9 days ago
      Reply to  Eric Schlange

      Cool!

      Eric, we have had some good experience with short punchy routes in recent Snap Crackle Pop events, also with 4x 15min format. Would love to chat more with you about this (see my email).

      BTW, I had a blast doing the tiny races yesterday! Thanks for organizing, and I will be back again next week!!

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      Derek
      Derek(@dpr4473)
      7 days ago
      Reply to  Its.Yozza

      What would be great is if they’d let you incorporate some Rebel Routes — I really like the Hilly KOM Bypass one. Great for a snappy crit race.

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      Eric Schlange
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      7 days ago
      Reply to  Derek

      I would love to, but I can only use routes that are in game.

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      Akihiro
      Akihiro
      8 days ago

      It was an interesting project. I have completed 4 races, but the kit is not unlocked. Do you need any application?

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      Eric Schlange
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      8 days ago
      Reply to  Akihiro

      See my comment below.

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      Akihiro
      Akihiro
      8 days ago
      Reply to  Eric Schlange

      Thank you Eric.I am looking forward to receiving the kit.

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      Scott Mossop
      Scott Mossop
      8 days ago

      Really enjoyed the races. Came first in Zone 1 with a couple of wins, a 3rd and a 5th. Cheers Eric

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      Eric Schlange
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      8 days ago
      Reply to  Scott Mossop

      Nice work, Scott!

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      8 days ago

      FYI, all: Zwift has informed me that the event was misconfigured, so the ZI kit unlock didn’t happen. They’re going to go in and manually assign the kit to all finishers. I’ll post another comment here once that’s done!

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      Mickael Vachon
      Mickael Vachon
      8 days ago

      It was amazing ! We want that at least 4 times a year 🙂

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      Peters Tony
      Peters Tony
      1 day ago

      I love this concept. Could we please have some of these races during the week?
      Many thanks.

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