TrainingPeaks, the digital platform that helps athletes and coaches plan, observe and analyse coaching progress, has acquired the digital biking platform indieVelo.
Renamed TrainingPeaks Digital, the acquisition expands the model’s providing to incorporate what it describes as “credible racing and extra real looking driving”.
Launched in 2023, indieVelo was created by Dr. George Gilbert, the previous Chairperson of Biking Esports at Zwift, and Bjoern Ossenbrink, the previous head of the Zwift Accuracy and Knowledge Evaluation (ZADA) group, and targeted totally on digital racing. Its proprietary engine combines the legal guidelines of physics with AL algorithms to higher simulate biking and racing outdoor, together with permitting customers to expertise sensations equivalent to drafting, braking and cornering.
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TrainingPeaks says the acquisition will allow them to sync lots of its current options with the digital biking platform, together with athlete schedules and structured exercises from coaches. TrainingPeaks zones, FTP, exercise compliance and different experiences are scheduled to be integrated sooner or later.
By including this digital ingredient the Colorado-based firm additionally hopes to utilise the group side that indieVelo had developed, together with hosted group rides, occasions and races.
“indieVelo was created to serve the wants of athletes, coaches and occasion organizers — a group of people that share a imaginative and prescient of what on-line biking and esports may very well be if their priorities have been put first,” mentioned Dr. George Gilbert. “With its community-friendly options, real looking racing physics, and a give attention to credibility, it quickly grew to become the primary alternative for these dedicated to coaching and racing.”
For his half, Gibert believes a shared imaginative and prescient will see his joint creation go from energy to energy.
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“This acquisition brings each the funding and the experience wanted to take it to the following degree,” he says, “creating a completely built-in, seamless coaching and racing platform, each indoors and out.”
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Indoor biking platform Zwift has been the distinguished chief within the indoor biking market since 2015, however competitors is burgeoning, significantly within the biking esports realm. Final, 12 months Zwift misplaced is UCI contract to MyWhoosh, which now has the rights to host UCI-recognised occasions like final week’s first-ever dwell UCI Biking Esports World Championships. It faces additional competitors from different digital driving platforms equivalent to Rouvy, Bkool and now TrainingPeaks Digital.
With the speedy progress of digital biking and the rising curiosity in esports, together with its potential inclusion in future Olympics, it will likely be attention-grabbing to see how this newest app positions itself out there. With indieVelo’s give attention to realism over graphics, will TrainingPeaks Digital look to nook the occasions and racing market? Solely time will inform.
A beta model of TrainingPeaks Digital is now out there without cost to new and current prospects. From March 2025, it will likely be out there as a part of the app’s premium service.
For extra info, go to trainingpeaks.com
