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Articles by Travis Rassat

SMART Indoor Training: You Are Here

In our first two installments of the SMART Indoor Training series, we discussed how we use measurement as a key element of defining our goals. SMART is an acronym for “Specific”, “Measureable”, “Attainable”, “Realistic”, and “Timely”, and we can leverage these concepts to set and meet our goals. Today, we’re focused on establishing your baseline performance metric: FTP.

Faster With Friends: TrainerRoad Group Workouts

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.

SMART Indoor Training: Setting Goals (Your “A” Race)

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.

SMART Indoor Training: How Do You Measure Up?

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.

Welcome to Sufferlandria

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.

Zwift Route Maps: Yorkshire

(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.

Zwift Route Maps: London

(Updated 5/5/2020) 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 London world in Zwift.

Zwift Routes: Oh, the Places you’ll Go!

(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!

Zwift Route Maps: Richmond

(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.