Galaxy Tours Endurance Race Series: Starting Sunday 16th February 2025 for ten weeks:

Tour de Badgers is a ten-stage endurance race series suitable for all riders.
The event sign up below is for The Three Bidon Detour.

Every other week riders may choose to take a detour from the Tour de Badgers and take on a bigger challenge. The five detour routes below have a Bidon Rating* of 3 Bidons and are expected to take between 80 to 120 mins to complete for most riders (* zwift-routes-checklist-20250102.pdf)

Stage 2: 23-Feb-25 Leith Hill After Party, 41.5km: 435 m elevation
Stage 4: 9-Mar-25 Bambino Fondo, 52.6km: 581 m elevation
Stage 6: 23-Mar-25 Shisa Shakedown, 53.3km: 557 m elevation
Stage 8: 6-Apr-25 Navig8, 66.2km: 423 m elevation
Stage 10: 20-Apr-25 Deca Dash, 52.2km: 501 m elevation

Time zones: Two time zones are available corresponding to Sunday morning in local time:
Zone 1: 09:15 UTC (08:15 UTC from 30th March) - Europe Sunday morning
Zone 2: 16:00 UTC (15:00 UTC from 9th March) - Americas Sunday morning

Categories: Zwift Racing Score (ZRS) will be used to categorise riders A to D as follows: A. 550+; B. 375 – 549; C. 200 – 374; D. 0 - 199
Riders can sign up to the pen that matches their ZRS category or a higher category. If you are at risk of upgrading during the series, please enter all races at a higher category. Pen start times are one minute apart.

Series completion and GC league: For each stage, individuals are ranked by their finishing time. The stage winner is the rider that completes the stage in the lowest time. To complete The Three Bidon Detour, finish ten stages of the tour, including all five of the Bidon 3 detour routes above. At the end of the series, the overall GC winner in each ZRS category will be the individual with the lowest accumulated time across the ten stages. League results will be shown in https://zwiftpower.com/series.php?id=GALAXYOpens a new window
DQs: Galaxy CC reserve the right to remove rider from the race and league results if a rider's power exceeds expected category limits during a race or may request that a rider race up a category based on their previous racing history. Riders suspected of using ‘ sticky watts’ or using an unnatural pedalling style may also be removed from the results at the race organisers discretion. A HRM and a power meter/smart trainer is required. No Zpower users.
See Tour Road Book for more details https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nuuq9SjlW3zJ8adQ0fwyFqAKuirSk_tkUGN2ITVHPTQ/edit?usp=sharingOpens a new window