Zwift has posted its ZRacing series schedule for May. Titled “Crit Club”, May’s races are all crit-style events on short, multi-lap routes.
This month’s races highlight the launch of Zwift’s “Crit Club,” which will host crit races in the coming months similar to Zwift’s TT Club. Sign up for the Crit Club here.
Crit Club – May’s Route Schedule
- Stage 1 (May 1-7): Volcano Circuit CCW
- 3 laps (17.2km, 89m elevation)
- Powerups: Aero Boost (33%), Feather (33%), Ghost (34%)
- Stage 2 (May 8-14): Downtown Dolphin
- 8 laps (15.8km, 136m elevation)
- Powerups: Draft Boost (33%), Feather (33%), Ghost (34%)
- Stage 3 (May 15-21): LaGuardia Loop
- 5 laps (15.5km, 153m)
- Powerups: Aero Boost (33%), Feather (33%), Draft Boost (34%)
- Stage 4 (May 22-28): Neokyo Crit Course
- 4 laps (16.3km, 80m)
- Powerups: Ghost (50%), Draft Boost (50%)
- Stage 5 (May 29-Jun 4): Glasgow Crit Circuit
- 6 laps (18.3km, 198m)
- Powerups: Feather (33%), Aero Boost (33%), Ghost (34%)
See upcoming Crit Club events >
Series Structure
The ZRacing series consists of monthly sets of weekly races. Each race is scheduled for seven days (beginning 00:10am UTC on Monday and running through to the next Sunday). Timeslots are consistent week to week and month to month.
Races are scheduled ~15 times each day, so there are plenty of available times to find a race.
See upcoming events at zwift.com/events/tag/zracingapr2023
Monthly GC on ZwiftPower
Each monthly set of races has a time-based GC (general classification) which tracks riders’ best finishing times for each week’s race. The overall winners in each category for the month will be the riders with the lowest overall time for that month’s set of races.
With over 100 weekly timeslots available, riders can race each week’s event multiple times and try to better their finishing time.
Note: you must use a heart rate monitor and be on a smart trainer, smart bike, or power meter to show up in ZwiftPower results for this series.
If you aren’t signed up for ZwiftPower, check out our post How to Sign Up for ZwiftPower (and Why Every Zwifter Should Do It).
Get the Badge
Each month’s series has a unique achievement badge, which you can unlock by finishing every stage for the month.
One and Done
Zwift has planned these events around the idea of a solid 1-hour workout, so each race should only take around 1 hour to complete, including your warmup and cooldown.
Past Rounds
May is the ninth round of the ZRacing series, which began in September 2022 with Get Rolling. This was followed by October’s Race Like a Champ, November’s Race Makuri, and December’s Race Like a Pro.
For 2023 we’ve had January’s Flat is Fast, February’s Race Scotland, March’s Race London, and April’s Cobble Crusher.
Questions or Comments?
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Zwift really are utterly killing these zRacing series by continuing to use the Burrito, it always makes those races completely stupid with people dropping them all over the place and breaking up groups, so what do they do: give us another month with a Burrito race where there will be up to 8 Burritos per rider in a 16km race – I may not even bother doing it, just so annoying!
Agree. You should only use at the finish. I swear people don’t know how to use th PU bin, or just drop it to annoy others 😔
It has already been suggest to Zwift by plenty of people that they alter the Burrito (similar to how they did with the Anvil) such that its effects only activate if the rider using it isn’t currently receiving a significant draft, for instance by only activating the effect if they have no-one within 5m ahead of them. That would retain its use for breaks, but prevent silly mid-pack uses that ruin races.
…but it seems Zwift still isn’t listening
Stage 4 contains a typo, Burritos have been retired from all ZRacing from the start of May
Only.just seen this, small mercies finally! Fingers crossed no sensible race organisers elsewhere will use the very poorly re-jigged Burrito and we can all go back to actually enjoying racing, lol
I just removed the burrito from stage 4 above… but FYI, it still shows as 33% probability on ZwiftHacks, so I assume it’ll be assigned unless the events get reconfigured.
Will check the config w the team tomorrow morning
In my opinion the Ghost is worse then the Burrito. Its a fair game if you can see the other riders.
I think the problem with the Ghost isn’t that it’s necessarily a “bad” power-up, and certainly not the bottom of the barrel awfulness of the Burrito, it’s just that it regularly gets assigned to either races that don’t suit it or where it is clearly a less favourable power-up than the other one(s) possible to get. Tonight for instance on Crit City Ghost or Draft or Feather, 99% of riders would say that Ghost is useless in comparison to the other 2, especially on that circuit where a multi lap Ghost Breakaway is highly unlikely. What they really need is… Read more »
Quck question. I understand that this is a normal series that only time at the finish line count? It is not a proper criterium with points in some intermediate sprint, I guess. And then, the “Crit’s Club”, is going to be criterium raes with points in some of the laps/sprints? Ok, at the end, it was mor than one quick question, apologies.
It is not Crit series per se. It’s a race series in which they’re using the Crit Courses for each race. You can repeat each race as much as you want and your best time from each stage counts towards GC. Because these are run 24/7 you’re allowed to race them multiple times to try and improve your time. Some parts of the day are more popular and therefore more racers/ draft.
Hi I don’t understand the scoring and I don’t seem to be appearing in the ZP league. My race time appears in ZP as I came 13th in Cat D with a time of 26:32 but neither my name or score in the 2023 Crit Club table. Have I forgotten to sign up somewhere?
Maybe it hasn’t updated yet to include your results. Sometimes it take upto 1 day to reflect your participation.
Why do you complain so much? Just play the game and drop some serious watts. 😉
When I logged in today this challenge (and one other) had disappeared and no ability to reselect (I have completed race 1 & 2). And two old challenges are showing up again despite being long finished. Any ideas how to fix appreciated!
I missed Crit Club Race Stage 1. Any opportunity to do it again?
Nope! No makeup races.