All About Zwift’s ZRacing Series

Are you interested in racing on Zwift? ZRacing is a great place to begin. These events are popular because they’re made to fit anyone’s schedule, delivering a solid 1-hour workout (including warmup and cooldown) on an ever-changing set of courses.

Here’s everything you need to know about Zwift’s “ZRacing” – the platform’s most popular ongoing race series.

Pinarello Powered – September’s Route Schedule

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

• Stage 1 (Sep 2-8): Rolling Highlands
  • 2 laps (23km, 182m elevation)
  • Powerups: Feather, Anvil 🛈
• Stage 2 (Sep 9-15): Park Perimeter Loop
  • 2 laps (19.9km, 254m elevation)
  • Powerups: Draft, Aero 🛈
• Stage 3 (Sep 16-22): Turf N Surf
  • 1 lap (24.7km, 196m)
  • Powerups: Feather, Aero 🛈
• Stage 4 (Sep 23-29): Loop de Loop
  • 2 laps (25km, 288m)
  • Powerups: Feather, Aero 🛈
• Stage 5 (Sep 30-Oct 6): Mayan 8
  • 1 lap (26.2km, 249m)
  • Powerups: Feather, Steamroller 🛈

See upcoming “Pinarello Powered” events >

Racer Categories

These races use Zwift Pace Groups for categorization, so (for example) you cannot enter C category if your historic power numbers qualify you as a B or A. You can always race up a category if you’re looking for an extra challenge, but you cannot race down.

Learn more about Pace Groups/Category Enforcement >

UPDATE July 2024: Zwift has begun rolling out test ZRacing events using the new Zwift Racing Score metric for categorization. Read all about it >

Monthly GC Competition

Every race event is a competition itself, but each month’s series is also a time-based GC (general classification) competition based on riders’ finishing times on each stage. Overall category winners are the riders with the lowest overall time for that month’s races.

Current GC results can be found on ZwiftPower.com under “Leagues.”

Important ZwiftPower Notes

• You must be signed up for ZwiftPower to be included in the GC results. Need help? Read How to Sign Up for ZwiftPower (and Why Every Zwifter Should Do It).
• You can race each stage multiple times to improve your finishing time. Hint: the fastest times usually come from the largest race fields!
• To be included in the final ZwiftPower results, you must use a heart rate monitor.

Earn the Badge

Each month’s ZRacing series has a unique achievement badge you can unlock by finishing every stage. There are no makeup events, so if you miss a stage, you miss the badge!

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