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From 34 to 105 workouts, with favourites and one workout for a whole club
At the end of October Tour du Pain had 34 workouts. On 1 November it had 105. Around that jump came a way for a whole club to ride one workout on one clock, favourites that follow your account, the bakery van in workouts and, on 7 November, a softer start for ERG.
One workout for a whole club
It began on 31 October with 1.28.19. When you plan a club ride you can now make it one workout together. Everyone rides the same block on their own FTP, on one clock, so a rider with an FTP of 200 W and one with 320 W start every interval at the same moment, each at their own watts.
Join late and you start where the group is. A stop doesn't put you behind, so a bottle refill doesn't leave you a minute out of step for the rest of the session.
105 workouts
1.29.0 went live on 1 November with 71 more workouts. The library now has short weekday sessions from 20 minutes, like Easy Twenty and First Spin 20, and entry versions such as First Sweet Spot, First Threshold and First VO2max. Climbers get Switchbacks and Col Simulation, racers get Criterium 45, Time Trial 20 and Breakaway 60, and there are skills sessions like One-Leg Focus and Smooth Circles.
Sprints on feel, where ERG lets go and you set the effort yourself, now count in the TSS.
Finding the right one
With 105 to pick from, the Workouts screen changed too. You can search on name, goal or effort, filter by goal, and sort by length, intensity or TSS. Without a filter it shows the ones you rode last, your favourites and a few per goal. It also opens faster than the old screen did with 34.
Star a workout from its row or its details and it becomes a favourite. Favourites follow your account to any device. When you plan a club ride as one workout together, the picker shows your favourites first, then every workout per goal with its length.
The bakery van and Skip
On 4 November 1.30.0 brought the bakery van into workouts, long zone 2 rides included, at the 5 km marks where you earn a baguette. A mark that falls inside short hard work waits for the next calm stretch, so the van doesn't arrive in the middle of a VO2max effort.
Skip changed too. It now skips the whole block as the workout lists it, and when more than 2 minutes of that block are left it asks first, so a stray tap doesn't throw away a threshold interval.
A softer start
1.31.1 on 7 November fixed the first seconds of every workout. A workout now starts with your first pedal strokes; until then the clock, the distance and the bunch wait, and the screen says "Start pedalling to begin".
ERG from a standstill starts soft as well. The trainer stays light until your legs turn, then ramps up to the target over 6 seconds, instead of asking for the full target at 0 rpm. In ERG the trainer adds resistance as your cadence drops, so a hard start can lock the pedals; Wahoo's guide to ERG mode calls it the ERG death spiral.
Your own workouts too
The built-in 105 aren't the limit. Your own .zwo (Zwift's custom workout format), .erg, .mrc and .fit workout files load as well; the guide to ERG workouts in your browser shows how. Every workout runs on your FTP, so set it first with the FTP ramp test. Triathletes will find the long IM sessions, such as IM Long Ride 4 h, covered in indoor training for triathlon, and club captains can read indoor rides for cycling clubs for the club workout.