Tiny Race Series – April 1 Routes and Last Week’s Results

Last week’s Tiny Races were all on the London Loop route, with each race longer than the one before. Team BL13 tried a 3-man breakaway on the first race… and it nearly worked! Watch their attempt (we cued the video to the fun part):

This Week’s Routes: Flats for Fools

This is the flattest Tiny Race week yet, and it happens on April Fools’ Day. Who will be crazy enough to attack on the flats in hopes of taking the group by surprise? We’re handing out nothing but Aero Boost powerups, to keep things fast!

• Race 1: Tempus Fugit (6.17km, blind finish exiting twisty tunnel after oasis)
  Tempus Fugit is the flattest route on Zwift, so we wanted to give it a try and create the flattest Tiny Race to date. This race ends with a bit of a “blind finish” as you exit the twisty tunnel leading from the Oasis.
  • Powerup: Aero Boost 1x
• Race 2: Watopia Flat Route (5.23km, end at bridge after Fishing Village)
  Riders will need to decide if they attack early on the ramp out of the ocean tunnel onto the dirt… or sit in and wait for the pack sprint finish.
  • Powerup: none
• Race 3: The Fan Flats (7.4km, ends on straightaway after small rise)
  Our first time on this route, and it’s about as flat as can be! The finishing sprint is well-known to Zwifters, and timing will be of the essence.
  • Powerup: Aero Boost 2x
• Race 4: Turf N Surf (7.55km, ends in slot canyon)
  Begin in Neokyo, then ride out through Neokyo Tunnel and onto the twisty connector road to a custom finish in the scenic slot canyon.
  • Powerup: Aero Boost 1x

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ZwiftPower Results

Zwift displays preliminary race results in game when you cross the line, but points are computed after all four races are finished, with final results on ZwiftPower. (We have to do some data processing on our side to compute results, so if your rankings don’t show up right away, be patient.)

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 (9am GMT/5am EDT/2am PDT)
• Zone 2 (3pm GMT/11am EST/8am PDT)
• Zone 3 (9pm GMT/5pm EDT/2pm PDT/Sunday 7am AEST)

Rules

Tiny Race rules are simple, but still every week 8-10% of registered ZwiftPower racers get disqualified and removed from the final results. Don’t let that be you! Four races, four rules:

• You must have a ZwiftPower account, because final results are processed by ZwiftPower (learn how to sign up)
• No skipping then returning. These races are meant to be raced as a set of 4. If you need to leave early, that’s fine… but once you miss a race in your hour’s set of 4, don’t come back and race another or you’ll be disqualified from that race since you rested while others were racing! (Example: racing only races 1 and 2 is fine. Racing 1, 2, and 4 is not – you will be DQ from race 4. And if you race 2, 3, and 4, you’ll be DQ from all those races, since you skipped race 1!)
• Heart rate monitors are required for podium finishers
• ZPower/Virtual power is not allowed. Smart trainer/smart bike or power meter required.

Pack Dynamics v4 Testing Continues

We’ve been using Zwift’s experimental Pack Dynamics v4 since the first weekend in March, and will continue to do so.

Got feedback on PD4 after your Tiny Races? Share it on this forum topic.

Join a Chat & Chill Cooldown

Immediately following each hour’s racing, we’ve scheduled 30-minute “Chat & Chill” events where riders from all categories can spin their legs together and chat about how it all went down. Find them at zwift.com/events/tag/tinyraces.

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