This Season On Zwift [April 2025]

What's New? Zwift Game
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We are excited to share the amazing new features coming This Season on Zwift:

Fitness Tracking
Coming April 8th
(depending on timezone)

Zwift Companion Goal and Fitness Tracking is a significant update in the Zwift Companion app that enables Zwifters to set weekly goals and track their fitness progress with Zwift’s new Training Score and a new Training Status indicator.

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Outdoors Now Counts On Zwift
Coming April 8th

Zwift Companion App will now ingest outdoor riding data from Garmin and Wahoo devices. Those with Garmin or Wahoo devices can sync their outdoor rides with Zwift. Paying Zwift members will be able to maintain their weekly streaks and earn a bonus 5XP per km ridden outdoors.

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HUD Refresh
Coming this Spring

The Zwift HUD will receive a number of updates, including one of the most requested features: splits! The configurable HUD, found in the top left, now has a range of more advanced training metrics to choose from, including Power balance (L/R), Average w/kg, Average Speed, Weighted Power (WP), and Body Temp and Heat Strain Index (HSI), enabled by a new integration with CORE Body Temperature Sensors.

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Zwift Camp:Inside Out
Coming April 14th

Zwift Camp: Inside Out is Zwift’s all-new 6-week workout program designed to help you gear up for your outdoor rides ahead and maintain your winter gains! These sweet spot workouts are designed to help boost your capacity and endurance for longer rides outdoors and can be recycled any time you are working towards a long outdoor effort.

For those entering the winter season, Zwift Camp: Inside Out is here to help you maintain your summer gains now and can be used as a resource come summertime.

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France Expansion
Coming April 7th
(depending on timezone)

This latest map expansion will take place in France in celebration of Zwift’s Watch the Femmes mission! The France Expansion brings to life the infamous, and fun, cobbles inspired by the legendary “Hell of the North.” In addition to the expansion, we will also be bringing you a new challenge, “Hell of a Route Chaser!”

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To learn more about the features included in This Season on Zwift, check out the main page or refer to the FAQ.

Stay tuned as the features are released for more details!

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This “main page” link still points to the previous TSOZ at the time of my post.

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HUD looks good. Still wondering why no draft when this is one of the biggest reason for using 3rd party applications?

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Lots of cool stuff here. Glad to see laps coming, along with the new France roads.

Can I suggest moving the giant orange stop button in Companion to the far right end of the row of buttons? When I’m riding that’s the last thing I need handy and it takes up a third of the row.

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Looking forward to all of this (more-so when France gets day/night cycle!!!)

Agree with Michael here though; that HUGE stop button on companion needs to go away, it’s too easy for it to get triggered by sweat!

Also, now Zwift making me want a Core even more :sob:

I’ve been tracking all of my rides with my Garmin watches since I started riding Zwift, and all have tracked at least “semi-ambient” temperatures.
Interesting data; haven’t yet been able to make use of it beyond being aware of it however.

Super happy to see the “outdoor” connection as well, I hope more of it comes than just XP for distance in some form or another.

Fitness tracking, I like the synchronicity with the appearance and see its value (nice to see it shows weekly streak). But beyond that, there are so many other systems that track, I think it might’ve been somewhat a waste of time (maybe not! I could be wrong. Will have to see when it releases!)

I’d much rather Companion app gets updates like “Climb Pro” on climbs etc. first and foremost.
ie: better integration to what’s happening in-game at time of riding.
Team / Group chats.
HUD customization

etc.

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Some sort of indoor/outdoor comparison tool would be cool but also would bring tons of accusations of cheating, whether it being from a PM reading a few percent off from a trainer, or just the physical conditions resulting in different HR for a given output.

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It can’t go away, that’s how I end my rides!

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Aha, so thats why they not so worried with the frame upgrades. Everyone cycling outside in the summer will still have upgraded frames when they come back indoors in the fall.

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The DCRainmaker article about it says that outdoor won’t get you drops or count towards bike upgrades

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Than what is the point in uploading it to Zwift ?

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For 5xp per Km, keep streak going and the Companion TSS fitness chart.

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If Zwift is to do fitness analysis then it needs to be aware of ALL your cycling.

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I get it for the riding streaks, but the XP bonus for outdoor rides will break the concept of Zwift Level. Will there be an option to turn the outdoor XP off and not count it towards Zwift Level ups?

Looking forward to the other features coming! :clap:

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That makes sense. I wont be using it much since I am not that much of a numbers data training cyclist.

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Thanks @Steve_Hammatt - The webpage link has been updated

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The stop button can continue to exist, but it shouldn’t be the biggest most prominent single item on the entire Companion screen, and really shouldn’t even be on the screen while I’m riding. Stick it at the end of the scroll bar.

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Any updates coming to cleaning up the HUD? From screenshots the climbpro part looks the same, it really could stand to be more vertically-compact and have some transparency. When that hits, plus the segment “challenge cards” plus the “Close the gap!” all stacks up it gets pretty ugly.

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It’s nice to have outdoors riding help with Zwift XP and maintaining riding streak. I wonder though why it’s just for Garmin/Wahoo devices, and not something that can also sync from Strava. Today activities recorded on my Apple Watch, phone (using the strava app to record directly), and my wahoo head unit all sync to Strava. Is this because of the recent 3rd party API restrictions that Strava put in place?

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New roads are going to be good for making the France map more fun and should see more use. As it was two loops with two directions each and one massive climb before basically with 2 pretzel routes. Good for short- medium rides. Then back to Watopia or makuri for longer rides fir not repeating same road over and over on single ride which get mentally boring. New connectors will break that up and encounter longer rides on the france map. Thinking of rebel routes that could be made. No lezyne computers? Know it is much less market share then wahoo/ Garmin/ hammerhead but still out there in shops. Plus CA company so easy to get computers test if they work with zwift system being setup. Easy to make the contact to do so from Long Beach HQ.

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Sounds simply like Zwift Level becomes determined going forward based on how much you ride (anywhere) while subscribed to Zwift. For that matter, maybe those who ride other additional softwares (training or Rouvy, Mywhoosh, etc) can upload those activities as well as long as the efforts are captured on a Garmin or Wahoo?

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