Tiny Race Series Details: Current Routes, Recent Results, and More

November 25th Routes: Tour de Worlds Courses

This weekend’s routes are hosted on Zwift’s four UCI Worlds maps. We’re running them in chronological order, from the oldest courses to the newest.

Race 1: Richmond’s 2015 UCI Worlds (7.727km, end at Broad Street sprint banner)
Our first and flattest race is held in Richmond, Zwift’s first UCI Worlds route. Who can hold the power to the line for Sagan-esque glory?
Powerup: Aero (2x)
Race 2: Innsbruckring (5.434km, ending atop Leg Snapper)
Always a crowd favorite, Innsbruckring’s Leg Snapper is made even more dynamic when the race finishes at its top. Will you save your legs for that final effort, or try to sneak away early?
Powerup: Feather (1x)
Race 3: Yorkshire’s Queen’s Highway (1 lap – 5.7km)
A pitchy little loop, with a drawn-out final sprint that’s slightly uphill. This one is all about timing: modulating your power to efficiently maintain momentum on the short climbs, activating your powerup for maximum effectiveness… and where should you start your final sprint?
Powerup: Draft Boost (1x)
Race 4: Scotland’s The Muckle Yin (6.005km, end at Breakaway Brae Reverse banner)
This rolling route offers opportunities for early breakaways, but will anyone take them? Or will you save it all for the Brae?
Powerup: Feather (2x)

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What are the Tiny Races?

Our innovative Tiny Race format uses four short back-to-back races within one hour. Each race is 4-7km long, so expect a big VO2 workout!

You earn points based on your finishing position in each race. The overall win goes to whoever earns the most points across all four races.

November 18, 2023

Overall Winners

Zone 1

A: Josh Harris (AERO)
B: Cameron Crook
C: Constant Thiebaut (ZDN)
D: D McKay (TFC)

Zone 2

A: Marcus J. Duval (NeXT pb Enshored)
B: Green Ninja
C: David Hivey (ART)
D: Guy Perrett (JWZ)

Zone 3

A: Thomas Lajoie (OPTIMUM)
B: Seth Aandewiel (4star)
C: Tim Poppert (TFC)
D: Lukas Snelling

Women's Winners

Zone 1

A: D Schwaegerl
B: GG.Tefy (Innovation)
C: Stephanie Parker (SYNERGY)
D: Angela de Heer

Zone 2

A: Maria Marb (Beastmod pb ROSE)
B: Kristen Kulchinsky (Virginia’s Blue Ridge T24)
C: Karin Hagglund (eSRT)
D: Jen Nelson (TBR Racing)

Zone 3

A: -
B: Claire Cameron (Saris+TPC)
C: Patricia Buerkle (Stages)
D: Bo Tanker

November 11, 2023

Overall Winners

Zone 1

A: Sébastien Havot (HEX)
B: Ángel Jiménez (Dragons)
C: Uli Doeker (RuhrRiders)
D: Deon Meyer

Zone 2

A: Paulo Fernandes IM
B: Chris Wood (4STAR)
C: Lukas Lenhardt
D: Bram Hulsman (Fryslan Boppers)

Zone 3

A: Marcus J. Duval (NeXT pb Enshored)
B: Derrill Stepp (TFC)
C: Tim Poppert (TFC)
D: Brad Hoy

Women's Winners

Zone 1

A: Emilia Welte (ABUS - SYNERGY eSports)
B: Sandrine Etienne (Foudre/Hex)
C: Águeda Sánchez Llambias
D: Angela de Heer

Zone 2

A: -
B: Laurence MOTTAS (HEX)
C: Madeleine Johansson (SZ)
D: Patty O'Shea

Zone 3

A: -
B: -
C: Patricia Buerkle (Stages)
D: Steph Tiger (IRLAG)

November 4, 2023

Overall Winners

Zone 1

A: Mickael Plantureux (HEX)
B: Joe Ricci (RELENTLESS)
C: Gareth James (Wahoo Le Col)
D: Eline Kulset

Zone 2

A: Sébastien Meyckeens (DIRT)
B: Stéphane Demers (IRIS/Bob Cyclo)
C: N. Axel (OCC_ZIRT)
D: Low Gear*

Zone 3

A: Brian Duffy Jr (NeXT pb Enshored)**
B: Alan Wiley (Fell Swoop)
C: Mark Napier (BMTR)
D: Cody Chandler (DraftingDinos)

*Low Gear tied with Mark Bennett (DIRT) for points, but Low Gear gets the overall win since he finished higher on individual race podiums.

**For the first time ever, we had two racers tie in points and finishing positions, with Brian and Daniel Keyes (eSRT) both finishing 1st twice and 2nd twice. We gave the overall win to Brian Duffy based on tallied time gaps between the two riders.

Women's Winners

Zone 1

A: Sandrine Etienne (Foudre/Hex)
B: Charlotte Colclough (Toyota CRYO RDT)
C: Margo J (Valhalla)
D: Eline Kulset

Zone 2

A: -
B: Tiffany Penner (ABUS-SYN)
C: Rachel Rodger (ZRScot)
D: Megan Cymanski

Zone 3

A: -
B: Aliseeyah T (DraftingDinos)
C: Ariel Fredrick (Coalition)
D: -

October 28, 2023

Overall Winners

Zone 1

A: Stefan Kirchmair (KC)
B: Arvils Vikstrems (Velo+)
C: Kev Taylor (ART)
D: BiTo RV Trave Tandem

Zone 2

A: Sébastien Havot (HEX)
B: Simon Nissen (DZR CC)
C: Stefan Versick (KC)
D: Martin Björgvik (SZR)

Zone 3

A: Kevin Hodges (NeXT pb Enshored)
B: Josh Olsen (Dragons)
C: Ernie Austin (INSIDE)
D: Todd Sheaman (DIRT)

Women’s Winners

Zone 1

A: Imogen Massey (ABUS – SYNERGY Sports)
B: Marine Maugé (HEX)
C: Rachel Rodger (ZRScot)
D: Sandra Nijenhuis

Zone 2

A: Gabriela Guerra (Saris | Nopinz)
B: Maria Marb
C: Diane Bomans (AEO)
D: Silvia Ko.-Schulz (ZRGirls)

Zone 3

A: –
B: Zee Kryder
C: Maggie Lowe (SYNERGY)
D: Steph Tiger (IRLAG)

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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 latest results on ZwiftPower:

Rules

Tiny Race rules are simple, but still every week 6-8% 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.)
  • Heart rate monitors are required.
  • Smart trainer/smart bike or power meter required. ZPower/Virtual power is not allowed.

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.

Questions or Comments

Post below!

Eric Schlange
Eric Schlangehttp://www.zwiftinsider.com
Eric runs Zwift Insider in his spare time when he isn't on the bike or managing various business interests. He lives in Northern California with his beautiful wife, two kids and dog. Follow on Strava

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Matty
Matty(@matthewhermann80)
16 days ago

Same winner for all 4 races on zone 2.
Fair enough ??

But a sub 50kg rider is just killing this. Winning all types of races, climbing and especially the flat ones for heavy riders.
That 10 out of 12 races last 3 weeks. I get it that the lighter riders can win the hilly ones but they are just smashing everything.
Really has put a dampener on it I am afraid and I am not the only one to comment on this

steve clowes
steve clowes
13 days ago
Reply to  Eric Schlange

Would using one of the custom pen allocation options instead of the default Category Enforcement help? Use all five pens A-E for allocation, instead of reserving E pen for a tiny few trying to race without Zwift data in the last 90 days? I’d love to see a popular series like Tiny Races try the custom Compound Score pen allocation for at least a few weeks, using all five pens. Plucking example “random” threshold Compound Score numbers out of the air… Pen E: <675 (how low to exclude the strong W/Kg lightweight riders?) Pen D: 675-1074 Pen C: 1075-1474 Pen… Read more »

steve clowes
steve clowes
13 days ago
Reply to  steve clowes

Oops, pen A 1875+!

Community Rider
Community Rider
9 days ago
Reply to  Eric Schlange

I agree Eric, the Racing Score could make things a bit better … BUT the main problem will stay : only 4 Categories. For me, Cat A are Pros, Cat D are beginners or returnees with small time for (structured) training … and the big whole rest is only divided in B & C !??? Only this range (from C to B) should be divided in 3 or 4 parts, so that we have 5 to 6 Cat. altogether. And then we all would have a better racing experience … doesn’t matter if we use Cat-Enforcement or Racing Score …… Read more »

Matthew Hermann
Matthew Hermann(@matthewhermann80)
9 days ago
Reply to  Eric Schlange

No idea mate!

I still enjoy it, I just don’t understand why they do

Keep up the great work mate

Matthew Hermann
Matthew Hermann(@matthewhermann80)
9 days ago
Reply to  Eric Schlange

Oh and good luck this week, looks like a good set of courses
Looking forward to it

Community Rider
Community Rider
9 days ago
Reply to  Matty

Oh yes Matty, a lightweight kid can destroy you with W/Kg … the opposite thing is with the BiTo Trave Tandem in Cat D … this couple weighs 145Kg … they can’t sprint and climb very well but their pure total watts on the flats (300-350) are difficult to follow … so the extreme ends on the weight scale can make racing more spicy or a bit unfair. But I have no idea how to solve this issue 🤷🏻‍♂️.

Community Rider
Community Rider
9 days ago

only one idea to ZHQ for the weight scale to chose from : set the minimum to ~50Kg and the maximum to ~110Kg (or similar) … and then we could avoid the extreme ends 🤷🏻‍♂️

Eugene Offroad
Eugene Offroad
15 days ago

why A is empty for zone 2? surely Kulchinsky was there?

Eugene Offroad
Eugene Offroad
12 days ago
Reply to  Eric Schlange

got it, thanks

steve clowes
steve clowes
15 days ago

Was gravel bike only the correct choice for the Sea To Tree race, after the recent changes?

Matthew Hermann
Matthew Hermann(@matthewhermann80)
9 days ago

I can 100% guarantee the winner this week

40Kg
Sprints at 15 W/Kg
D Cat in the C races

Lets try our best !!

Matty
Matty(@matthewhermann80)
8 days ago

What a difference!

Fantastic racing, race 3 was just too much for me on a personal level.
Great sprints up front and some brilliant breakaway from riders. Loved it!!

Maybe a solution is to split the junior riders into a separate category like cat E

Anyway superb cheers Eric. I will win one day

Benso
Benso
8 days ago

Question: As a B it is allowed to jump between A and B Cat. races without DQ?

Paul
Paul(@paulshuckerow)
2 days ago

Best workout of the week these races! My goal is the top half and that nearly kills me, thanks for putting these on, was a great idea.

Darren Evans
Darren Evans
1 day ago

I suffered on this one 😆

https://youtu.be/CVnLIAlnB0Y?si=2lD06EvDHFIdJjuD

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