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Zwift’s “ZRacing” is the platform’s most popular ongoing race series, and August’s races each include a mid-route climb that demands an explosive kick. You’ll have just enough time to regroup before an all-out sprint to the line!
August’s Routes
Here are the routes we’ll be racing in August:
- Stage 1 (Aug 4-10): Innsbruckring
- 2 laps (17.82km, 155m)
- Powerups: Feather, Draft
- Stage 2 (Aug 11-17): Glasgow Crit Circuit
- 6 laps (18.31km, 199m elevation)
- Powerups: Feather, Ghost
- Stage 3 (Aug 18-24): Sand and Sequoias
- 1 lap (22.43km, 181m)
- Powerups: Feather, Aero
- Stage 4 (Aug 25-31): Rolling Highlands
- 2 laps (23.04km, 183m)
- Powerups: Feather, Draft
See upcoming Range 1 events >
See upcoming Range 2 events >
See upcoming Advanced events >
See ALL upcoming events >
GC Leaderboards
Zwift debuted new web-based leaderboards at zwift.com for tracking the Zwift Games 2025 GC, and an upgraded version of those leaderboards is now being put to work for the monthly ZRacing series.
Access August’s leaderboard at zwift.com/racing/leagues/zracingaug2025 >
Your GC ranking is based on your best finishing time for each stage, and you can race each stage more than once to try for a better time.
Choose Your Category
Zwift schedules three different flavors of ZRacing events in order to encourage “Fairer, more competitive racing for everyone.” They each use different racing score ranges for categorization and are titled Advanced, Range 1, and Range 2. Click banners below to see upcoming events for each:
Get the Badge
Each month’s ZRacing series has a unique achievement badge, which you can unlock by finishing every stage for the month. There are no makeup events, so if you miss a stage, you miss out on the badge and competing in the GC.
One and Done
Zwift has planned these events to deliver a solid 1-hour workout, so each race should only take around 1 hour to complete, including your warmup and cooldown.
Questions or Comments?
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these are all of my favorite routes
Mine too.
Again the normal Glasgow. Change it up for gods sake and use the Reverse for a change. This is getting boring with every time the same routes …
This is an incredible route setup. Can’t wait!
Is the cool down feature with rider’s finishing position displayed still in play? I wasn’t for the last 2-3 races of the July series.
Cooldown is, but I believe the finish positions on the jerseys are currently disabled while they fix some bugs.
Will be interesting to see how numbers compare, with free Kms ending before the August series begins.
I’m expecting huge drop in total numbers.
Really? Why?
Well all William Chau’s numerous alternative accounts he pairs up to his turbo, using different heights and weights, will be all missing for a start… He won’t surely be paying multiple monthly subs to be a nuisance!
If that actually happened that sounds great. I doubt it will slow him down, but in general I am OK with not paying for the usage of people who don’t want to subscribe. Their participation is not sufficient compensation for me.
We have these all blocked unless he has found new tricks.
I’m not expected a significant drop due to 25km accounts being stopped. If it is more than 1-5% I would be very surprised.
Sand and Sequoias is not an “explosive kick” kind of route unless you’re talking about the sprint finish. Any crafty sprinter who plays their cards right should get over that.
These all look exceptionally short and not very selective. I mean Hell of the North in C pen is only a little over 30 minutes, so two laps of Innsbruckring, not sure why I would get on the bike for that.
I don’t think “explosive kick” means sprinters are supposed to get dropped. And I DO think Sand and Sequoias includes an “explosive kick” bit, for sure! It’s the little kicker AFTER the KOM. You can attack that with 15-20s of all-out effort and quickly gap a lot of riders (or at least pass a bunch of them). It’s a very effective attack, partly because people are still tired from the KOM effort.
I agree these routes aren’t SUPER selective, but I think they’re much more selective than a flat route, which is all Zwift is trying to do (I think). If the riders with a strong kick put in the work, they can easily drop half the field, at least on all the routes above except for Rolling Highlands…
It’s a pity I cannot attend (or at leat all of them), The HISP Tour starts this August 18th 🙂
For those interested, I asked Club Ladder for their top most used racing routes. These are all in the top 8 (I didn’t use top 5 as they were almost all in Scotland)
How many results count in terms of the team standings? In many races it is the best 3 results, but looking at the team standings it seems as at least 5 results count?
It’s the best 5 results per team per category per stage (at least I think that’s how I have it set up!)
Guess I’ll just have to make some more friends then. Unless you can tweak it to the top 3 results 😉