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Zwift Workouts in Rouvy
- Authors
- Name
- Mike Barkmin
- @mikebarkmin
For of all I think, that Rouvy is a great piece of software, but it is lacking good structured workouts. This is a huge benefit of other platforms like Traineroad or Zwift. Especially the Zwift Academy caught my eye as I was searching for good workouts, which I could replicate with the Rouvy Workout Editor. After I have convert the first Academy Workout V02 Over/Unders I was unmotivated to convert the rest of them. I took a long time to replicate them by hand and ramps are not supported by Rouvy.
Since I am a programmer by heart, I developed a little tool which assists me with the task. My MRC Workout Converter converts workouts from a simple language to an MRC file, which can be imported into Rouvy.
The language consists of simple statements, which are compatible which Whats on Zwift?. So you can take any workout, which is on Zwift and convert it to an MRC file and therefore to a Rouvy workout.
Here is an example of a simple interval workout:
10min from 40 to 85% FTP
30sec @ 90% FTP
3min @ 55% FTP
10x 10sec 150% FTP,
1min @ 70% FTP
10min from 50 to 35% FTP
My tool will create a chart like the bottom one. On top of the right-hand side you can see a little download button, which you can use to download the MRC file. You also get additional information like duration, intensity and zone distribution.
Zone Distribution
Duration: 34.67min, IF: 0.63
Due to legal reasons I will not share the converted Zwift Academy Workouts on my website or make the Rouvy workouts public, you need to do the extra step and convert them yourself.
I hope you will enjoy the tool and your cool new workouts :)