TrainingPeaks Virtual Heads to the Real World with World Routes
If you are the type of athlete that loves to mimic the real world with your indoor riding, rejoice: you now have a fresh option on the table.
TrainingPeaks has launched a fresh update to their Virtual indoor training platform with what they’re calling World Routes. As of today, riders on TrainingPeaks Virtual can choose from six iconic climbs across the globe to ride within the game and train upon.
Those six climbs now available within the platform are:
- Alpe d’Huez — France
- Flagstaff Mountain — Colorado, USA
- Koppenberg — Flanders, Belgium
- Parc du Mont-Royal Circuit — Quebec, Canada
- Passo dello Stelvio — Italy
- Sa Calobra — Mallorca, Spain
It is all part of TrainingPeaks ongoing enhancements to the virtual platform. These real-world routes are integrated into the platform via what TrainingPeaks calls GPXplore. Over the coming months, TrainingPeaks will expand GPXplore to allow individual users to upload their own GPX routes to the system and ride them — giving you another opportunity to train real-world race courses in advance. TrainingPeaks anticipates that users will be able to use this feature by mid-October.
Other recent enhancements to TrainingPeaks Virtual are: improvements to cornering and braking physics to better simulate real-world situations; upgraded graphics and user interfaces; and redesigned bikes and gear for athletes to choose from.
TrainingPeaks Virtual is free to athletes who have upgraded their TrainingPeaks accounts to the Premium level. TP Premium currently costs $19.95 USD per month if billed monthly. They also offer a quarterly price of $49 USD ($16.33/month) or an annual price of $134.99 USD ($11.25/month). Other features that come with Premium include the ability to plan and save strength workouts; planning workouts in advance within the calendar function; and advanced metrics (including the new Fueling Insights tool, which are in the process of testing.)
TrainingPeaks also offers what they call “FREE 4 All” Tuesdays, which allows any athlete with a TrainingPeaks account to check out the platform. These free preview of the platform days come the first Tuesday of each month — so Tuesday, September 2nd, will be the first offering. Climbs will be featured on these free days for the next four months.
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Serious question - has anyone actually got TPV to work well? If so, what is your set up? I’m running AppleTV on fiber and it remains slow, and glitchy…doesn’t play nice with remote when setting up avatar…then selecting a team…so forth and so on. I’m a premium TP guy and really want this to work so I can stop paying an additional $20/month for Zwift during the dark and cold season, but it never feels like the juice is worth the squeeze with TPV. Zwift always works. Without issue.
I run it off my 10 year old macbook and don’t have any problems. If you’re not already on their discord server, it might be worth joining it as there are a bunch of people there happy to help troubleshoot.
In process of testing it here. I’m on a MacBook Pro on 1 GB fiber, and haven’t seen issues…yet.
I’ll give you that Zwift is pretty damn stable. I find Zwift to be a little more user friendly up front, but TPV (especially once this GPX file thing goes live, which sounds like no later than October 7th will be the date) will give you more options for yourself.
Thanks @Scheherazade & @rrheisler I dont’t mind giving it another try when things start to cool down here. Where I’m already a TPP member this would be a sweet little bonus…
i use an ipad an it works fine. I create the workouts on intervals.icu and then manually export them to TPV.