ROUVY, the indoor cycling platform, has added outdoor rides and achievements to ROUVY Career for Garmin cyclists. Revamped at the beginning of this year, ROUVY Career 2.0 is a multi-year ongoing motivational system for cycling both indoors and outdoors.
Any athlete or fitness enthusiast, registered on ROUVY and currently uploading activities to Garmin Connect, can automatically enrol and track all rides.
The company notes that the indoor cycling season does not finish with end of cold and bad weather but seamlessly moves outdoors. ROUVY combines outdoor and indoor activities in its new Career feature.
From now on, outdoor rides will produce earnings in a ROUVY rider’s account and will help users to proceed through the Career levels faster. Coins earned can be used for virtual avatar upgrades (once released) or real prize rewards where available, sponsored by ROUVY’s partners.
Additionally, ROUVY members have the benefit of keeping all their indoor and outdoor activities in a web training diary in one place, allowing for further analysis and planning.
Along with the addition of outdoor rides, the team at ROUVY has rolled out ‘achievements’ to give incentives and to encourage riders to train more. For example, for the accumulated 3,280 km, which is the total distance of 2022 La Vuelta, a rider will gain a special ‘achievement’ and a badge that will appear in their public rider profile.
Achievements are based on distance covered, calories burned, metres climbed and vary in difficulty.
Athletes need to have a valid subscription and an up-to-date app to be able to upload outdoor activities into ROUVY. The activity can be imported via an automatic sync with Garmin Connect. Upon turning this on, all cycling activities will sync automatically to ROUVY’s cloud-based platform.
Starting with Garmin smartwatches and GPS cycling computers (currently other brands are not accepted), support for the activities uploaded from other outdoor apps and devices will follow in due course.
