Tiny Race Series – July 8 Routes and Last Week’s Results

Last week’s races were Tour de France themed since they happened on the same day as the TdF’s Grand Depart (stage 1). B racer Lucas Johnston recorded his race while listening to the live TdF commentary – and he won the overall!

This Week’s Routes

This week features a mix of route types from flat to rolling to a leg-snapping finish up Alpe du Zwift.

Here are photos so you can see the precise location of the custom finish line for race 2:

• Race 1: Seaside Sprint (5.676 km, ends at Volcano Circuit arch)
  • This one is a bit of a roller coaster, starting on The Esses, down across the JWB sprint reverse, down the Dirty Sorpressa, then finishing inside the Volcano on one of Zwift’s most technical and challenging finishes. Lots of aero boost powerups will keep this fast and encourage attacks.
  • Powerup: Aero Boost
• Race 2: Road to Sky (5.5km, ends partway up Alpe du Zwift)
  • This will be interesting. A jungle dirt lead-in followed by 400m of Alpe du Zwift climbing. Do you choose a gravel bike, or a road bike? Depends on where you want to attack…
  • Powerup: none
• Race 3: The 6 Train Reverse (1 lap, 6.9km)
  • A rolling counterclockwise circuit of Central Park’s inner loop, this route has an uphill finish on Cat’s Paw Hill that requires timing and punch for the win.
  • Powerup: none
• Race 4: Classique Reverse (7.43km, ending at The Mall Sprint banner)
  • Covering only the lead-in from the pens to The Mall Sprint banner, this route is quite flat apart from the quick Northumberland Ave climb to Trafalgar Square.
  • Powerup: Feather

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

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