Zwift’s “ZRacing” is the platform’s most popular ongoing race series, and in October it’s all about Watopia! Following the theme of the Tour of Watopia and the upcoming Watopia expansion, October’s ZRacing events will all be held in Watopia. This includes the final stage, which will be held on a new route to be announced.
Race Watopia – October’s Route Schedule
Here are the routes we’ll be racing in October. Note that stage 5 features one of the new routes created by the upcoming Watopia expansion!
- Stage 1 (Oct 2-8): Beach Island Loop (Watopia)
- 2 laps (25.9km, 96m elevation)
- Powerups: Aero Boost, Draft Boost 🛈
- Stage 2 (Oct 9-15): Flat Route (Watopia)
- 2 laps (21km, 122m elevation)
- Powerups: Aero Boost, Draft Boost 🛈
- Stage 3 (Oct 16-22): Two Bridges Loop (Watopia)
- 2 laps (14.7km, 160m)
- Powerups: Aero Boost, Feather 🛈
- Stage 4 (Oct 23-29): Volcano Circuit CCW (Watopia)
- 4 laps (21.3km, 80m)
- Powerups: Burrito, Ghost, Feather 🛈
- Stage 5 (Oct 30-Nov 5): Going Coastal (Watopia)
- 1 lap (16.5km, 63m)
- Powerups: Draft Boost, Feather 🛈
See upcoming Race Watopia events >
Tour of Watopia Double XP
This month, ZRacing is part of Tour of Watopia Fall 2023! Completing any ZRacing stage will also complete that stage of ToW, and you’ll earn double XP while doing it.
Read more about Tour of Watopia >
Zwift Community Live(stream)
Nathan Guerra at Zwift Community Live is providing commentary and a live stream of each Monday’s 5pm UTC/1pm Eastern/10am Pacific race. Here’s the first race, and you can also click here for the playlist of upcoming broadcasts.
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/zracingoct2023
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 October’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. Tip: the fastest times usually come from the largest race fields!
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 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!
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?
Post below!
According to Zwift the new road is 19km long so I am a little confused as to how 1 lap of this new route can be 16.4km long. Even if the 19km includes both directions and new start pens are added, you can’t fit an out-and-back into 16.4km.
Guessing it’s not a “loop” route where you end back where you started, more of a From->To route taking you from maybe a new set of Pens along a large chunk of the new road to finish at some other banner
You may need to dissociate “road” from “route” when you think about it. A single km of new road in the form of a bridge between two existing areas could create dozens of potential new routes.
The press release said 19km of new roads, of which I imagine only some part fit into this new race route. Could well be that we start from the downtown pens like usual and then just race a few km on the new bit before heading back where we started.
What happened to Zwift’s promise that GC based zRacing events would NOT have the race-killer Burrito used any more?! Guess this is a zRacing month I won’t be going for the GC in since I refuse to participate in any events using the Burrito! #BinTheBurrito
P.S. @Eric Schlange just noticed the Race-2 link is pointing to the “Two Village Loop” course instead of Watopia Flat just FYI 👍
…and Race-1 is pointing to Flat Route Reverse instead of Beach Island Loop
Fixed, thanks!
I see there is 06.10am BST on Tuesday and Thursday when ZRL and TTT are on but no 06.10am BST on Monday or Wednesday. Very frustrating
Again full flat
Hi. Missed out stage 1. Will it be make up week to repeat it?
Is there a make up for Stage 1 race? I’ve ridden all of the routes but missed the race for last week. In the past, they’ve had “make up” dates.
Zwift has never had make up dates for ZRacing events. But the question gets asked every month! 😀
thanks Eric, I’m obviously confusing this with another Zwift ‘event’. 🙃
Too bad Burrito was allowed as a powerup during stage 4 because it is collectively destructive rather than individually empowering.