Zwift Racing League is far and away the most competitive and prestigious race series on Zwift. And it continues to grow, with over 2,000 teams and 17,000 riders signed up this season!
Smart racers want to recon the course before each week’s race, so community organizers and ZwiftHQ have jumped in to schedule events on each week’s ZRL route.
These events can be found by scrolling through the Companion app, but the only way to see all of these events easily is via the ZwiftHacks Events page since it lets you filter events by route. Here’s a link showing all events on Neokyo All-Nighter, for example.
While there are lots of ZRL recon events happening, here are a few highlights:
Wahoo Le Col Racing Series (Separate Events for Men and Women)
The Wahoo Le Col team has organized a Saturday racing series for men, and a separate (new!) series for women, where each week’s race uses the route that will be raced in ZRL 3 days later.
Women’s event Saturdays at 3pm GMT/10am EST/7am PST
Men’s event Saturdays at 11:30am GMT/6:30am EST/3:30am PST
See both events at https://www.zwift.com/events/tag/wlc
Team Electric Spirit Co. Aperitivi Race Series
An aperitivo is a pre-meal drink, and Team Electric Spirit Co. has returned once again this season with a pre-ZRL series! Each week’s racecourse is “a shortened (where possible) version of that week’s Zwift Racing League course, making it the perfect chance for a little aperitivo for those racing on Tuesday, or just a great fun series for anyone else.”
This is a race series, too, where your best 7 from 9 results count in the overall series with points allocated based on finishing position with a small number of bonus points allocated for first past the post and fastest through each segment on the course.
Saturdays at 4pm GMT/11am EST/8am PST
See all events at ZwiftHacks
ZwiftHQ Course Recon Rides
Just today, Zwift announced they’ve scheduled recon rides hourly on Mondays. Race Director Charlie Issendorf says, “These are non-competitive, go-your-own-pace group rides, without ride leaders. Recon Rides can be done solo, with teammates, or friends from other teams. Everyone is encouraged to attend and plan their strategies for Tuesday’s race!”
The schedule of these rides may be tweaked moving forward, but for now, see all upcoming rides on ZwiftHacks.
Team Italy Recon Races
Team Italy holds races each Saturday and Sunday morning (European time).
Saturdays and Sundays at 8:20am GMT
Sundays at 5pm GMT/12pm EST/9am PST
See all Team Italy events at ZwiftHacks
Rave-con
Looking to recon the route, but not in a race format? Join Team RAVE each week for a slow-paced recon.
Sundays at 5pm GMT/12pm EST/9am PST
See all events at ZwiftHacks
Questions or Comments?
Got another recon series you would recommend? Share below!
Thereś no way to ZRL with no team, right?
Correct. ZRL is team-based. There are hundreds of other races each week which aren’t, though!
Le Col race looks great, to bad the race is at 3:30am for my time zone 🙁
How is the ZwiftHacks events page better than the ZwiftPower events page? I get that both are way better than searching in the app, but no one ever talks about the ZP listings here.
Eric I have really enjoyed reading your latest articles. In particular the Race Ranking articles piqued my interest and encouraged me to delve deeper into the workings of ZwiftPower. Thank you for bringing the ZwiftHacks facility to my attention, this is something I will look into in more depth over the next few days. The reason for writing this comment however is that, like Doug, I am surprised you did not mention the filter/search facility within ZwiftPower and wrote that the “only way” to find a list of all Neokyo All-Nighter rides was through Zwift Hacks. In your recent article… Read more »
ZwiftPower is pretty good, Ian, but ZwiftHacks is better for most event searches, in my opinion.
One problem with ZwiftPower is, it doesn’t show all upcoming events. It goes max 7 days in the future.
But the second problem is, I can’t create a custom link and share it with others which shows (for example) all upcoming events on PRL Full. ZP lets you create/save custom filters, but they’re only available to you.
Which is probably fine for most people, and most people probably aren’t looking more than 7 days ahead, either. But ZwiftHacks does all that and more.