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    “Flat is Fast” ZRacing January Series Details

    Eric Schlange
    By Eric Schlange
    December 27, 2022
    LAST UPDATED January 3, 2023
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    Zwift’s monthly ZRacing series is now in its fifth round following September’s Get Rolling, October’s Race Like a Champ, November’s Race Makuri, and December’s Race Like a Pro. Each month has brought more and more racers out to compete for the monthly GC.

    Today Zwift published details for January’s ZRacing Series, where the theme is “Flat is Fast”. Let’s dive into the details!

    Flat Is Fast – January’s Route Schedule

    This month’s routes follow the “flat” theme… mostly. All the routes apart from Mech Island Loop feature no significant climbs.

    • Stage 1 (Jan 3-8): Tick Tock
      • 1 lap (19.2km, 53m elevation)
    • Stage 2 (Jan 9-15): The Fan Flats
      • 3 lap (19.4km, 57m elevation)
    • Stage 3 (Jan 16-22): Volcano Flat Reverse
      • 2 laps (24.9km, 100m)
    • Stage 4 (Jan 23-29): London Classique
      • 2 laps (16.5km, 50m elevation)
    • Stage 5 (Jan 30-Feb 5): as in past months, this stage is actually 2 short races, meant to be raced back-to-back.
      • Part 1: Mech Isle Loop (1 lap, 4km, 38m elevation)
      • Part 2: Watopia Flat Route (1 lap, 10.7km, 61m elevation)

    See upcoming Flat is Fast events >

    Series Structure

    The ZRacing series consists of monthly sets of weekly races. Each race is scheduled for seven days (beginning 1:10am 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/zracingjan2023

    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.

    See January’s GC on ZwiftPower >

    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).

    Flying over Fan Flats
    On the iconic Classique route

    Get the Badge

    Each month’s series has its own 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.

    Flying through the ghost town on Tick Tock

    Questions or Comments?

    Post below! 

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      Eric Schlange
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      René Rosendahl
      René Rosendahl
      9 months ago

      Tick Tock don’t have the right link

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      9 months ago
      Reply to  René Rosendahl

      Fixed!

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      J L
      J L
      9 months ago

      Looks like I’ll have to get creative to podium next month. I’m not winning any bunch sprints.

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      Carl J
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      Carl J(@runbikebbq)
      9 months ago
      Reply to  J L

      This isn’t ZRL

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      Nick
      Nick
      9 months ago

      Is it just the races I have done or do these races have more unbelievable riders in. Did a race with 16 in but only 3 on ZP.

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      Matthias
      Matthias
      9 months ago
      Reply to  Nick

      As they are officially promoted by Zwift, maybe they attract more newbies who do not even know about zwiftpower…. It is crap you still have to separately register to get “proper” results (with only half the field in them) :O/

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      Ben
      Ben
      8 months ago

      How do the team standings work, I don’t understand. I can see it adds up the total of all our entries but is that two people have entered or my team has raced it twice? If I did it again would our count go up to 3? And the highest “counts” are always going to be above the lesser so if a team enter 10 times they’ll always be higher than the team entering 9 times no matter how fast everyone is?

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      Bert Verdonck
      Bert Verdonck
      8 months ago

      When do you recon is the best time to join a race?
      I guess your time depends alot on the race you’re in…

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      Simon
      Simon
      8 months ago
      Reply to  Bert Verdonck

      Typically, if you join races with more riders, you get faster times. More people pushing, more draft to rest in etc.

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      Tom Ahmt
      Tom Ahmt
      8 months ago

      Hi
      I raced the first stage in Cat B. I have a profile on ZwiftPower which is linked to my Zwift account but I can´t see my result in the League score board. Should I register for this serie or is there another explanation?

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      Kerstin Kastner
      Kerstin Kastner
      8 months ago
      Reply to  Tom Ahmt

      The events require the use of a heart rate monitor. This seems to be a common reason for riders not to show up in the results.

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      Tom Ahmt
      Tom Ahmt
      8 months ago
      Reply to  Kerstin Kastner

      I did wear a HRM and ZwiftPower even gave me point

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      Romain
      Romain
      8 months ago

      Hi guys.
      I’m a newbie on Zwift and more on ZRacing.
      Where is possible to find a global ranking on an event after completing an event?
      Thanks!

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      8 months ago
      Reply to  Romain

      The ZwiftPower GC link is in the post above. That’s the monthly time-based global ranking.

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      8 months ago
      Reply to  Romain

      Also – welcome to Zwift!

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      Christopher
      Christopher
      8 months ago

      Will there be a chance to make up a race?

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      Rob Bane
      Rob Bane
      8 months ago
      Reply to  Christopher

      Unfortunately no make-ups for any of the Zracing series

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      P.L.
      P.L.
      8 months ago
      Reply to  Rob Bane

      aarrgghh! Gutted!

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      haraldinho
      haraldinho
      8 months ago

      if I start as a Cat B driver once in Cat B and can then experience a faster time in Cat A, will I be rated twice or how does it work then?

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      8 months ago
      Reply to  haraldinho

      You can set times in each category, which count toward the GC.

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      GHibb
      GHibb
      8 months ago

      How much time will there be between Part 1 & 2? Will you have to race concurrently, or could you do in different time slots?

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      Rob Bane
      Rob Bane
      8 months ago
      Reply to  GHibb

      You can and many do. The second races always seem better attended the the first. Some of us think you ‘should’ do them together, but it seems widely ignored. Do it as you see fit as it’s certainly not against the rules.

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      mbnurse1984@gmail.com
      [email protected]
      8 months ago

      How many times can you do the race in a day? At what times is it available?

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      Simon
      Simon
      8 months ago
      Reply to  [email protected]

      You can do them as many times as you like. It’s your best time that counts towards the standings.

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      Christian Brown
      Christian Brown
      8 months ago

      Do you need to complete 5a and 5b back to back to count in the GC classification?

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      8 months ago
      Reply to  Christian Brown

      I don’t think you actually HAVE to, but that’s the intention.

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      Christian Brown
      Christian Brown
      8 months ago
      Reply to  Eric Schlange

      Thanks Eric 👍

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      Donna Watts
      Donna Watts
      8 months ago

      If you upgrade muddle of series can you bring times from lower category with you? Or will there be any makeups at end?

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      8 months ago
      Reply to  Donna Watts

      No and no. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

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      P B
      P B
      8 months ago

      Hello. What happens if you are D cat rider, and racing in D cat races for this but then do a quicker time in a Cat C race. Will the quicker time in the cat C race count towards your D cat GC position?

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      P B
      P B
      8 months ago
      Reply to  P B

      Just done this and does not appear to have had any impact despite going three minutes quicker on stage three

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      P B
      P B
      8 months ago
      Reply to  P B

      Any thoughts?

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      Rob Bane
      Rob Bane
      8 months ago
      Reply to  P B

      if you race in C you’ll have a separate GC result for your C races to you Ds

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      Christian Brown
      Christian Brown
      8 months ago

      Does 5a and 5b have to be raced back to back to count towards the GC?

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      Donna Watts
      Donna Watts
      8 months ago

      In placing, are they accounting for fact that volcano reverse course was significantly longer?(all differences in length matter to those that missed a stage for schedule or upgrade)If it’s just about total time, people could strategically skipped that stage/volcano. I’m noticing women ahead of me with sane number of events that didn’t race volcano reverse thus making my time longer and placement lower

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      Peter
      Peter
      8 months ago
      Reply to  Donna Watts

      I think final GC will require 6 races … I don’t see any reason why any rider not complete every race should be higher in GC than you

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      Ken
      Ken
      8 months ago

      What is Category E for? It is just there with no way to enter, no explanation, but then a few people show up in the results.

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      8 months ago
      Reply to  Ken

      E is for people who haven’t recorded enough activity on Zwift to be classified accurately into a proper category. Basically, once you’ve done one E race, you should be good to go! (Or just go ride hard wherever you’d like for 20 minutes or more…)

      Last edited 8 months ago by Eric Schlange
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      Matt
      Matt
      8 months ago

      Any catch ups for these ?, missed 1&2

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      8 months ago
      Reply to  Matt

      Nope.

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      Rick
      Rick
      7 months ago
      Reply to  Eric Schlange

      Sucks you miss a race and no catch ups guess I wont be doing anymore of these. Even though these are run 15 times a day there are still instances where you just cant get a race done. Short sighted for sure not to offer a make up on these..

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      Wayne Wilson
      Wayne Wilson
      8 months ago

      I race for the Rhino team as a C, and there appears to be a discrepancy between the preliminary official team results ranking and the results I have calculated. Zwift is ranking the DIRT C team 1st with a combined time for top 3 team members of 6:43:19, DBR 2nd with 6:43:04, and Rhino 3rd with 6:45:24. When I add up the times of the top 3 riders for each team I get Rhinos 6:48:05, DIRT 6:50:01, and DBR 6:58:21. The top 3 Rhinos are Andrew Spencer (4th), myself (20th), and Johnny (21st). The top 3 DIRT are 1st, 19th,… Read more »

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