Tour de Zwift [January 2025]

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The biggest party on Zwift is back for 2025! One big blowout, with six stages, where fitness comes fast, and the party is always on! Cover more miles with more friends, all while exploring the wonders of Zwift. This year, you can ride or run the Tour de Zwift.

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Tour de Zwift starts on January 6, 2025, at 16:00 UTC / 4 PM PT and ends on February 23, 2025, at 7:59 UTC / 11:59 PM PT. You will be able to register starting today (December 9, 2024) at 16:00 UTC! To convert to your local timezone, click here.

There will be six stages for the Tour de Zwift this year. Stages will be scheduled to run every hour, and during the make-up week, stages will run every half hour:

Stage 1: January 6, 2025 @ 17:00 UTC - January 13, 2025 @ 04:00 UTC
Stage 2: January 13, 2025 @ 05:00 UTC - January 20, 2025 @ 04:00 UTC
Stage 3: January 20, 2025 @ 05:00 UTC - January 27, 2025 @ 04:00 UTC
Stage 4: January 27, 2025 @ 05:00 UTC - February 3, 2025 @ 04:00 UTC
Stage 5: February 3, 2025 @ 05:00 UTC - February 10, 2025 @ 04:00 UTC
Stage 6: February 10, 2025 @ 05:00 UTC - February 17, 2025 @ 04:00 UTC
Make-up Week: February 17, 2025 @ 05:00 UTC - February 23, 2025 @ 04:00 UTC

  • Makeup events will be scheduled to run every 30 mins

This year, we are excited to introduce the Tour de Zwift Ultimate Challenge (cycling only)! To conquer the Ultimate Challenge, you must complete each distance in all six stages, which is 18 routes in total! Track your progress here as you tick off each route and see how close you are to finishing them all. Tracking will only be available on the web for the Ultimate Challenge.

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We are also bringing you all new exclusive unlocks. After completing 20%, you will unlock the Tour de Zwift Socks. At 50%, you will unlock the Tour de Zwift Beanie Hat and after completing 100%, you will unlock the Tour de Zwift Kit for both cycling and running!

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By completing the Ultimate Challenge, you will unlock the TdZ Ultimate Challenge hat at 50% complete and the kit and achievement badge at 100%.

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To learn more about when stages are taking place, click here. We will also have late join enabled for all events. To learn more about Tour de Zwift 2024, check out the main page here or the FAQ here.

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With the newish ZRS now in hand, here’s my vote that Zwift adds 4-5 daily TdZ gran fondo-type races – all pens start together and see each other.

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This is a great idea. Do some mass-start races on each week’s Long route, it would make for an excellent ZRS test.

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These are group rides aren’t they? Granted some treat them like a race.

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They are but there have been similar series where they offered a mix of group rides and races

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And while some treat them like a race, many don’t (myself included). Needs to be an actual race to see how ZRS is working (or isn’t)

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We used to have TDZ official races, just like I used to be able to do 4W/Kg for 20mins!

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I think there’s probably a bit of fear of what results would look like, overall sorted by time and showing ZRS.

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Does anyone know if 2x XP applies to this year’s TdZ?

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It doesn’t say that double XP applies and the Tour of Zwift never had it before (it’s the Tour of Watopia that has double XP). So it’s unlikely.

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why there is no ranking during the “race” ?

its just a number !

thx!

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Yeah, annoying not to show what place you are in the ride…

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My guess is it’s to further reinforce it’s a group ride and not a race?

That said I would prefer them to show which place you’re currently in even though it is of course not a race.

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I have only just done TdZ and it does show which place you are in.

[Edited to remove - I misunderstood the expression and didn’t spot the exclamation mark ]

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I wonder if there’s a bug then. One person on the ride I did today said in the first ride they did see their number, in the second one they didn’t.

Edit: Or maybe they changed the configuration of them after the first few?
Edit2: There were a lot of folks complaining about not seeing their number during the ride, and nobody chimed in to say they were seeing theirs except the one person who said it was there on the prior ride, so maybe it’s a change in config for later rides?

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Yeah I’ve seen it both ways – with and without placing. The one without was the very first event of TdZ, so yeah, maybe just a bug early on?

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I could see my placing all the way around the long route on my Apple TV set up, but there was chat saying it couldn’t be seen, and some of the screen shots that made it to strava from people I follow don’t appear to show it on the right hand panel.

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I saw the placing today.

I late joined the London Flat. The group I was put with was over 1/2 through the route. When we crossed the finish, I was credited with a route completion banner.
That should not happen, since I didn’t cross the start of the route.
You don’t get credit for a route badge when you join a RoboPacer if they have already crossed the start of the route.
You shouldn’t get a route completion for a TdZ ride if you didn’t cross the start of the route either.

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The route completion bug (ie getting a badge when late joining an event) has been there for years. Fixing that bug now would be destroying part of Zwift’s heritage.

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Ok so because I have so much time on my hands I looked at screenshots from people who were in the same stage 1 ride as me. Most didn’t show the placing, but some did - again, in the same ride people had different experiences.

These two screenshots were from two different riders in the same ride:

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