Given to Tri

Send Runna workouts to Zwift using Intervals.icu. I’ve been using Runna since last fall for all my run training, and so far it’s been great, except for the fact that it doesn’t sync its workouts to Zwift, which is where I do all my treadmill running in the winter. I’ve been told that’s coming soon, but in the meantime, I’ve been using Intervals.icu as a middleman to send Runna workouts to Zwift. The trick is to rewrite Runna’s workouts into Interval.icu’s workout builder plain text format. It’s a bit laborious, so to make that easier, I created a custom GPT that can do that—just paste the workout description from Runna (or just upload a screenshot of it), paste the output into a new workout in Intervals.icu, and presto, it should sync to Zwift.

Automatic treadmill incline control may be coming soon to Zwift. According to Zwift Insider, it’s been in testing for a few months now for a small set of Zwift subscribers using the Wahoo Kickr Run treadmill, and now there’s a support article about it. Will they support other smart treadmills, like the Technogym MyRun? Who knows, but Zwift’s response, quoted in Zwift Insider’s article, makes me hopeful that they will. (If anyone at Zwift is reading this, I’d love to beta test that when the time comes.)

I’ve been using TrainerRoad for all my cycling training, with great results, since even before I got into triathlons. I love the training plans and all the machine learning magic they apply to them, but doing long workouts indoors while looking at nothing more than a graph and some numbers is mentally challenging, to say the least. Or as a certain cyclist would say: “It builds character.”

Best Bike Split now integrates directly with Zwift. I don’t think it was widely announced except on the Zwift forum, but cool nonetheless, since you can now send Best Bike Split race plans to Zwift as a workout so you can practice your pacing plan there. I’m still waiting for TrainerRoad to ship their own Zwift integration, but I think this fun St. George race simulation will keep me entertained in the meantime.