Tiny Race Series – April 15 Routes and Last Week’s Results

We stayed in Britain for all of last week’s races, and it resulted in some really close competition for podium spots! Here’s friend of the site and Zwift community racing legend Nathan Guerra battling to a tie for 1st place in the Zone 3 A category:

Not bad for a guy recuperating from a broken collarbone!

Here are last week’s winners:

This Week’s Routes: Roller, Climb, Roller, Climb

Our courses this week alternate between flatter rolling routes and routes with key climbs. A battle between pure wattage and w/kg!

• Race 1: Douce France (7.047km, end at Ballon sprint banner)
  This rolling, twisty route will take you flying through Les Intestins and over a few rollers before sprinting for the Ballon Sprint arch.
  • Powerup: none
• Race 2: Valley to Mountaintop (3.5km, ends at Temple entrance partway up KOM)
  This route’s key climbs are dirt, beginning with the beautiful Golden Forest which will stretch the pack out and create gaps, then ending partway up the Temple KOM after a bit of pavement in between.
  • Powerup: none
• Race 3: The 6 Train Reverse (6.9km, 1 lap)
  A rolling counterclockwise circuit of Central Park’s inner loop, this route has an uphill finish up Cat’s Paw Hill that requires timing and punch for the win.
  • Powerup: none
• Race 4: Mountain Route (5.27km, ending at first bridge tower)
  Your lead in is fairly tame, but this race ends in an all-out, 700-meter slugfest up the foot of the Epic KOM to the first bridge tower.
  • Powerup: none

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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 7-10% 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.

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.

Zwift Insider Kit Unlock

Finish any of the Tiny Races or a Chat & Chill ride and unlock the Zwift Insider “Ride Smarter//Ride Harder” in-game kit.

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