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    Tiny Race Series – September 3 Route Details and Last Week’s Results

    Eric Schlange
    By Eric Schlange
    August 30, 2022
    LAST UPDATED August 31, 2022
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    Last Saturday’s Tiny Races were quite a mix of punchy climbs, downhills, and flats. Each race suited a different type of rider, so it took a combination of fitness, smarts, and consistency to come out on top.

    Confetti popped in Yorkshire
    Feathers flew in NYC
    Richmond was downright painful
    And the Jungle was dusty!

    Congrats to Last Week’s Winners

    Overall Podiums

    Zone 1 (8am UTC)

    A: Yuichi Sasaki
    B: Simon Matros (WattFabrik)
    C: Paul Smith (ART)
    D: Dan Dan (TFC)

    Zone 2 (2pm UTC)

    A: Pedro Errecart (OTR)
    B: Richard Shoebridge (EVO)
    C: Anton Hansson (eSRT)
    D: Daniel DS Biking (SZR)

    Zone 3 (8pm UTC)

    A: Tim Humpton (Electricspirit.co)
    B: Pedro Bastos (PTz)
    C: Gregory Gout (RWB)
    D: Damon Leake (CRYO-GEN)

    Women’s Podiums

    Zone 1 (8am UTC)

    A: none
    B: Cornelia Engström (SZ)
    C: Jennifer Frevel
    D: Mone B.

    Zone 2 (2pm UTC)

    A: none
    B: Ro Berbel (Team Italy)
    C: Jo Graham (CrushPod)
    D: Linn Björgvik (SZR)

    Zone 3 (8pm UTC)

    A: none
    B: Madi Roberts (AHDR)
    C: Kelsey Tranel (KRT)
    D: Carrie McBride (HERD)

    This Week’s Routes

    This week we’re going all-in on Watopia, with four fresh routes that have never been seen in the Tiny Races.

    Here are photos so you can see the precise location of the custom finish lines:

    Approaching Volcano Flat Rev finish
    Volcano Flat Rev custom finish
    Approaching Mountain Route finish (first bridge tower)
    Mountain Route custom finish
    Approaching Seaside Sprint finish (Volcano Circuit arch)
    Seaside Sprint custom finish
    Approaching Tempus Fugit finish
    Tempus Fugit custom finish
    • Race 1: Volcano Flat Reverse (5.5km, ending atop Dirty Sorpressa)
      • This route is fairly uneventful until the final ~50 seconds, when we hit the snaking Dirty Sopressa climb up to the Italian Village. You’ll have a steamroller to help make the full gas dash up the dirt a bit faster, but be sure to time it well!
      • Powerup: Steamroller
    • Race 2: Mountain Route (5.27km, ending at first bridge tower)
      • Here’s one for the punchy climbers. 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
    • Race 3: Seaside Sprint (5.676km, 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 x2
    • Race 4: Tempus Fugit (6.17km)
      • 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: Draft Boost

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

    Join a Chat & Chill Cooldown Event

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

    ZwiftPower Results

    Zwift displays preliminary race results in game when you cross the line, but points are computed after all four races finish, with final results on ZwiftPower. (We have to press a ZwiftPower button to compute results manually, so if your rankings don’t show up right away, just 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 (8am UTC)
    • Zone 2 (2pm UTC)
    • Zone 3 (8pm UTC)

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    Post below!

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      Eric Schlange
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      Tim S
      Tim S
      1 year ago

      Damn going to miss this again, work gets in the way. Love the format though Eric 👍👍

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      Steve Fish
      Steve Fish(@stephen-fischer)
      1 year ago

      Eric, I see you are using some fine granularity distances (down to the meter) for events this week. Did you set these with help from Zwift HQ? (James has been incredibly helpful with this for our events!)

      Coincidentally, we have the exact Mountain Route punchy climb race in Snap Crackle Pop tonight, if anybody wants to practice for Sat, haha! I will change our distance from 5.3km to 5.27km since you have gone through the trouble to figure out the exact finish line, thanks!

      Thanks again for organizing these Tiny Races! I haven’t missed one yet – always fun!

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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Steve Fish

      Hey Steve – no help from ZHQ. Just setting them in test events and trying them out until I get it right. ;P

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      Steve Fish
      Steve Fish(@stephen-fischer)
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Eric Schlange

      Wow! Well thanks for doing the hard work to figure them all out, particularly the 5.27km for Mountain Route (which I have now set as the distance for our event tonight).

      James has been incredibly helpful with figuring out distances for a few of our events using his simulator, e.g. Leg Snapper and AdZ finishing exactly at turn 21 marker (which was just too much effort to get exactly right with recon rides, haha).

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      Josh
      Josh
      1 year ago

      Absolutely loved Richmond last week! Great combination of w/kg to make the front selection, but doing it around ghosts and timing it just right to be in the best pos for the last 400m

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      Michel van Dasler
      Michel van Dasler
      1 year ago

      Eric, just wanted to say I had a ton of fun last saturday! I’ll surely line up for next saturday as well!

      Side note: the link to Tempus Fugit for race #4 leads to last weeks Jungle circuit CCW.

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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Michel van Dasler

      Glad you enjoyed it! Fixed the link, thanks.

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      Emilio
      Emilio
      1 year ago

      As I can’t race this weekend, I did a sort of “simulation” of this four races on wednesday, using Beach Island Loop for the 1st and 3rd route. Obviously this means I did not start from the pens. My times were 11:30, 14:00, 13:00 and 12:00 min for the four, with a 1.7 w/kg of power. So again, pretty in the limit for us low D riders. Obviously, in the races probably I could go a bit faster.
      And finally, Thanks for this format Eric.

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      Dmitry G
      Dmitry G
      1 year ago

      These are great. Just did the 10am Eastern time races. One question — it seems like no one got steamrollers on the first race. I got +10xp, I assume others did as well. Was that a glitch? Just curious…

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Dmitry G

      Yeah, some kind of glitch. I’ve seen it happen before. The event appears to be set up correctly, but… no powerups.

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