Articles by Travis Rassat

I had the pleasure of doing my first TrainerRoad group workout with TrainerRoad’s very own Communications Director, Jonathan Lee. With Jonathan in his garage in Reno, Nevada, and me in my fit studio in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana, we discussed TrainerRoad’s philosophy, target audience, and deliberate approach to product improvement. Let’s dive into TrainerRoad’s newest feature.

If you want to add some fun to your indoor running, Zwift offers a nice selection of routes just for you! Let’s take a look at the run-only routes currently available in Zwift.

IRONMAN has stepped into the virtual racing arena with their new IRONMAN VR race series. What do you need to participate? Let’s find out!

We have a new holiday: Quitter’s Day. According to data analysis performed by the team at Strava, Quitter’s Day is the day that most New Year’s fitness resolutions fail. This year, we celebrated Quitter’s Day on Friday, January 19. Maybe we even had cake. It’s not too late to crash our Quitter’s Day party – we’re going to step back, look at why your fitness resolution failed and come up with a SMART new game plan.

You may have heard of SMART goal setting. SMART is an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely – attributes that all goals need to have. This is the first of a handful of articles we’ve dubbed “SMART Indoor Training”, in which we’re going to pay a bit more attention to all those numbers indoor training applications give us and use them. In this first installment, we’ll delve into how we can measure our performance.

It’s been about a year since we spent some time with Rouvy, so let’s take a look at what has changed in 2019. Is Rouvy the right training tool for you for 2020?

The Sufferfest started out with a series of videos that delved deep into the darker humor of the “pain cave.” When you pressed Play on one of their videos – with titles such as “A Very Dark Place”, “Downward Spiral”, or “Fight Club” – you put yourself in a world where suffering is good – better known as Sufferlandria. The Sufferfest built a Pain Cave culture. And then they built an app. We’re going to have a look at it now.

(Updated 5/9/2020) If you like to explore, we’ve got just the thing for you: This gallery includes a map of each of the routes in the Watopia world in Zwift.

(Updated 5/6/2020) If you like to explore, we’ve got just the thing for you: This gallery includes a map of each of the routes in the Yorkshire world in Zwift.

(Updated 5/7/2020) If you like to explore, we’ve got just the thing for you: This gallery includes a map of each of the routes in the Richmond world in Zwift.

(Updated 5/5/2020) One of the fun aspects of a game-like application like Zwift is that you are not bound to the constraints of the real world. In their efforts to enhance our indoor training experience, the Zwift team has been increasing the number of worlds and routes dramatically. Remember when it was just one route around Watopia, and you couldn’t even do U-turns? We do. Zwift has come a long way since then, currently including a total of 6 worlds with 67 routes available for free riding or running. We’ve compiled a list of the different worlds and created galleries containing maps of all the routes in Zwift. You can start to explore Zwift here, and we’ll even show you a fun hack to let you ride any world you want, whenever you want!

(Updated 5/10/2020) This gallery includes a map of each of the routes in the Innsbruck world in Zwift.