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.
I run it mostly on an iPad and sometimes on AppleTV. It’s as stable for me as Zwift was (which was very stable with the occasional glitch - might affect 1 ride every 20 or so). I assume the same signal interference (or whatever it is) is the cause of glitches in both platforms.
W10 and W11 laptops. Intel i5 processors, both. One is 12th gen/32 Gb ram, other is 8th gen/8 Gb ram. Both run TPV flawlessly. Xfinity cable over a Netgear orbi two rooms away!
You can sync TPV with intervals.icu (or TP) and the workout scheduled that day will appear in TPV automatically.
just tried it and it works. thanks
I recently Tried TPV on Apple TV and it was super glitchy and lagging. Switched back to Zwift on the same Apple TV and no issue.
I also would really like it to work better as I am following a TP plan and would like to skip paying for Zwift
Can you comment more on your setup? Are you beaming the signal over Wifi to a TV two rooms away? I’m using a wireless HDMI to shoot a signal to my garage, but it’s not the best. Beam me up, Scotty!
Oh, no, not sending HDMI. I thought that the issue was computer connection to wifi sufficient for TPV video on a computer. My details…we have a three Orbi system (1 base, 2 satellites). Wifi 5 - these were purchased in 2020 during the pandemic. My laptop, a new Win11 with a core i5-13 and 32 Gb RAM (but no discrete graphics) is two rooms from one of the satellites - maybe 10 m away and 2 walls. That laptop has a USB ANT+ adapter, no cable, just a nub plugged into the USB port. The trainer is a Tacx Vortex Smart - super old - and is 2 m from the trainer. So, I fire up the trainer.and a Garmin FR955. Then open TPV on the laptop. Everything connects and off I go, with TPV on the laptop only. I’m using default/auto detected video settings. Looks fine on a 15" laptop screen. The room has a big TV and I will watch bike racing, triathlon, biathlon there as a distraction while riding.
Ah okay, you meant the network performance was stable enough from two rooms away to run the game comfortably, not that your trainer is two rooms away from the computer running TPV. Apologies, I misunderstood.
I’ve been running Zwift/TPV on a PC inside to a TV in the garage via a wireless HDMI transmitter. It’s sometimes pretty flakey though so I was hoping you had a better setup I could steal!
I often connect a 2nd laptop to the big TV using a HDMI cable (not wireless) to watch some events that I can’t get from cable. I’ve thought about a wireless HDMI setup for that 2nd laptop to make setup before a ride a little smoother. I assumed that the HDMI transmitter/receiver pair worked on their own frequency/protocol that was independent of wifi. But I guess that the HDMI transmitter could send the signal to the HDMI receiver over wifi - you would know since you would need to put the HDMI receiver and transmitter on your wifi network. Is that how yours works?