“Punchy Power” ZRacing August Series Details

Zwift’s “ZRacing” is the platform’s most popular ongoing race series. In August, the series takes on routes with climbs that require a strong w/kg punch. Additionally, the series is continuing to test Zwift’s new Zwift Racing Score in certain events!

Read on for details about race routes, the overall monthly GC competition, and more…

Punchy Power – August’s Route Schedule

Here are the routes we’ll be racing in August (click route for details):

• Stage 1 (July 29-Aug 4): Coastal Crown Loop
  • 1 lap (23.7km, 265m elevation)
  • Powerup: Feather 🛈
• Stage 2 (Aug 5-11): Hilly Route Reverse
  • 2 laps (18.6km, 216m elevation)
  • Powerups: Feather 🛈
• Stage 3 (Aug 12-18): Rooftop Rendezvous
  • 4 laps (17.9km, 249m)
  • Powerups: Feather 🛈
• Stage 4 (Aug 19-25): London Loop
  • 1 lap (15.3km, 234m)
  • Powerups: Feather 🛈
• Stage 5 (Aug 26-Sep 1): Jurassic Coast
  • 1 lap (19.5km, 212m)
  • Powerups: Feather 🛈

See upcoming “Punchy Power” events >

Series Structure

The ZRacing series consists of monthly sets of weekly races. Each race is scheduled for seven days (Monday through Sunday) and timeslots are consistent week to week.

Races are scheduled hourly times each day at 10 minutes past the hour, so there are plenty of available times to find a race.

See upcoming events at zwift.com/events/tag/zracingaug2024

Zwift Racing Score Test Events

Zwift Racing Score will continue to be tested this month on certain ZRacing events. Zwift has made some changes this month, adding one more scored race to the list and slightly adjusting the score bands that group riders:

Scored events will occur at 0810, 1110, 1710, 1810, and 2210 UTC each day. These time slots will use 5 categories, except the 1710 and 1810 time slots which will use 10 categories.

Read more about Zwift Racing Score >

IMPORTANT: if you want to compete in the monthly GC (see below), you’ll want to race the “normal” events, not these scored events, because the scored categories don’t line up with the GC categories on ZwiftPower.

Monthly GC on ZwiftPower

Each monthly series includes a time-based GC (general classification) tracking riders’ best finishing times for each week’s race. The overall winners in each category for the month are the riders with the lowest overall time for that month’s set of races.

See August’s GC on ZwiftPower >

With over 150 weekly timeslots available, riders can race each week’s event multiple times and try to better their finishing time. Tip: the fastest times usually come from the largest race fields!

You must use a heart rate monitor 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 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.

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