Just wondering why there are no events with the Macaron route. Looking to get the Macaron badge achievement.
If the event isn’t available try doing a workout and selecting it as your route. You may need to do a custom workout which you can just simply pause and free ride. Workouts are a way to access any route that isn’t available on that day
When you go to choose the route after workout selection, Macaron does not appear as an option. I’ve spot checked some event only routes from other worlds and they do not appear for selection either.
Ralph I’m keen to get this too, it’s the only one I don’t have.
That does not work for most event only routes.
If it did, there would be more people free-riding Bologna.
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Agree with Big. Macaron does not come up as a route when setting up a custom workout. Macaron appears to be event only. In the past, I have seen events set up for event only routes. However, this is not the case for the Macaron route. A question to Zwift? Is the Macaron route available to event organizers to set up an event with this route?
Likely only if requested; but not sure who would request it, it’s insanely short (sub 5 minutes).
Only assumption has been it was designed for the Insider Tiny Races.
60 mins of the Macaron coming up on Sunday:
Certainly going to be an interesting “group” ride if the pack splits into two at every intersection after the route ends…
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A 2.6km “route”. Don’t blink when riding or you may miss it.
5 minutes of Macaron and 55 minutes of random routing
I took the liberty of creating four races on Macaron
These are one-time events that will not repeat. Times are intended to allow you to use it as a warmup for an event at the top of the hour.
I requested to have a steamroller powerup granted in the starting pen.
There is also a Frenchy unlock you will get by completing it, if you don’t have it already…
And I have a request as well: please sign up early to help encourage more signups, and tell your friends and teammates about it. It can be tough to gather a good sized field for an event like this, so your experience will be better if you assist with the event promotion.
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Thanks to all who created an event with the Macaron route. Just in time before outdoor spring weather arrives here.
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Great, thanks Paul.
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Thanks, @Paul_Southworth for putting those events on.
I got smoked at the line, but that’s nothing I didn’t expect.
What’s the Frenchy unlock?
Yes, thanks Paul!
my ZRS shot up 21 points because of you
Route actually ended up being shorter than I imagined, thought it would be a solid 5 minutes, nope! In my small group, I managed to finish in 3:42
At the time however it was a really long 3:42 haha
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If these Macaron races become a thing, should organizers consider disabling ZRS scoring? If this route was maybe just 1km longer, at least it might get everyone hitting the important 5m effort threshold that ZRS relies on.
We don’t have any more of those events planned, and with the way ZRS is going I’m feeling like I have zero responsibility for fixing anything about it. If Zwift wants to make it better, I will applaud that.
BTW it appears that ZwiftPower can’t process fit files for events under 5 min.
Funny that was C category winner’s time today (field of 30).
You got the Red Baret if you didnt already had that as a bonus price.
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That’s what I thought it might be.
Thank you.
Thanks for organising those races! Brutal, but sort of fun 
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