Tiny Race Series – September 17 Route Details and Last Week’s Results

Our Tiny Race series continues to grow in numbers, which means the competition is just getting fiercer each week! This Saturday is our first-ever DIRT DAY, where all four courses include significant stretches of dirt.

Congrats to Last Week’s Winners

Overall Podiums

*Niall is a speed skater who competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics for Great Britain!

Women’s Podiums

Watch Zone 2 A winner Adrian Alvarado’s race recording:

Dirt Day’s Routes

This week we’re doing four mostly-dirt routes already raced in past Tiny Races.

Big hint: if you don’t pick a gravel or MTB you’ll be left in the dust. (Extra hint: spend a few extra Drops to get some name-brand gravel wheels. Read this post for details.)

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

• Race 1: 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 2: Serpentine 8 (5.5km, ends on rise climbing out of Mayan cutoff)
  • Hint: this route is tricky in terms of bike choice, because it begins on pavement, is mostly dirt, but finishes on bricks! And there’s a bit of wood thrown in for good measure. Each of these surfaces rolls differently on different bikes, so you need to decide where you want your advantage. Read more about Crr on Zwift for details.
  • Powerup: none
• Race 3: Spirit Forest (3.35km, ends partway up Temple KOM)
  • This dirty, mostly-uphill route takes us on the rarely-ridden cross trail that connects both sides of the Temple KOM partway up their respective climbs. Then we’ll turn left off that cross trail and continue the Temple KOM for a bit, ending at a custom finish.
  • Powerup: none
• Race 4: Jungle Circuit Reverse (6.289km, ends at Jungle arch)
  • This mostly downhill race covers just the lead-in of the Jungle Circuit Reverse route, which includes the rope bridge.
  • Powerup: none

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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 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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