This Sunday marks the 3rd running of Turbo Ten, the brainchild of Zwift employee James Bailey. Run through his High Performance Racing Towels Club, Turbo Ten sees racers take on the 9 shortest routes on Zwift, with the 10th stage being a short climb up Fox Hill on the ZG25 Climb Champs route.
Routes and Schedule
Like Zwift Insider’s Tiny Races, your final result is decided by your overall time across all ten stages. Race routes are as follows:
The races take place at 2pm UTC (3pm UK/4pm CEST/9am EST) each Sunday with results on ZwiftPower.
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/turboten
Additional events may be added later for North American or Australian optimized time slots. James has said that he doesn’t want to do this until the Euro-centric times see more than 200 people taking part to ensure that any additional events do not have sparse fields which would take away the “fun”.
More Details
Riders are all equipped with Big Heads and receive two boost powerups in the pen in each event – which gives you a one-second speed boost of 10km/h – use them wisely, either to catch up with a big group or to make a strategic play!
Categorization is by Compound Score, which is computed by multiplying your best 5-minute power in watts by your best 5-minute power in watts per kilo. (So a 100-kilo rider with best 5-minute power of 300w would have a compound score of 300×3=900.)
The categories are as follows:
- Category A: 1700 and above
- Category B: 1200-1700
- Category C: 900-1200
- Category D: 600-900
- Category E: 0-600
Riders all start together in the same paddock, but you’ll be able to see who you’re competing against as riders will all wear the Zwift Racing Category jerseys.
Riders must use either a smart trainer, smart bikes or power meter as their power source and must have a heart rate monitor paired in order to take part.
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