Wahoo Fitness introduces a comprehensive app update featuring advanced athlete profiling, personalised training tools, and a new subscription model, enhancing its ecosystem for endurance athletes across cycling and running disciplines.
Wahoo Fitness has moved beyond hardware with a broader software push that brings training insights, athlete profiling and running tools into a single app, as the company looks to make its connected ecosystem more useful for endurance athletes across cycling and running. The latest version of the Wahoo App also introduces a three-tier subscription structure, with the aim of separating basic device connectivity from more advanced analysis and guided training. Wahoo says the platform draws on its own sports science, including its Four-Dimensional Power model for cyclists and a new Three-Dimensional Pace system for runners.
The new running tools are designed to give athletes a more personal view of performance. According to Wahoo, Three-Dimensional Pace identifies threshold pace, maximal aerobic pace and anaerobic capacity, offering runners a similar style of profiling to the company’s cycling metrics. The app also now connects with COROS, while SYSTM continues to provide strength, yoga, mobility, recovery and mental training sessions. For riders willing to pay more, the Core and Pro tiers add deeper analytics, workout recommendations and a larger training library.
Castelli’s Movement Travel Short takes a different approach to cycling kit, aiming at riders who want comfort without the obvious look of race clothing. The women’s short combines an integrated padded liner with a lightweight outer shell, so it can work for touring, commuting, leisure riding and days when the bike is only part of the plan. Castelli says the design includes side pockets, a rear zipped pocket and a regular fit, with a temperature range of 15C to 35C.
That versatility comes at a price, though. At $210, the short sits firmly in premium territory, and it is not meant to replace a high-performance bib short for long, fast road rides. Still, Castelli appears to be targeting a real gap in the market: clothing that performs properly on the bike but does not look out of place once the ride is over.
Bob & Brad’s Q2 Ultra Massage Gun is also aimed at portability rather than brute force. Weighing 430g, it combines percussion massage with an infrared heating head, five speed settings and a brushless motor that the company says runs at as little as 40dB. USB-C fast charging brings the battery back in about 1.5 to 2 hours, making it a practical recovery tool for race bags, travel cases and car boots.
Maxxis has taken a similar no-nonsense approach to gravel tyres with HYPR-X, a new compound that blends its HYPR road rubber with the MaxxSpeed mountain bike formula. The range covers four familiar tread patterns: Receptor, Reaver, Rambler and Ravager. Maxxis says the compound delivers 19% better cornering traction and 25% lower rolling resistance, while the tyres also use a 120 TPI nylon casing, EXO sidewall protection and tubeless-ready construction.
Fabric’s Gripper V2 bottle is another incremental but practical update. The brand says it has added permanent anti-microbial protection to keep the bottle fresh for longer, while retaining the grippy texture, soft body and high-flow valve that made the original popular. The company has also moved away from printed graphics in favour of an embossed logo, which should wear more cleanly over time.
Continental, meanwhile, can look back on a strong Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift campaign. According to the company, its tyres were part of two stage wins, six stage podiums and four days in the yellow jersey, with riders using a mix of GP5000 TT TR and Aero 111 rubber across time trials, sprint finishes and long-range attacks. The standout result was Uno-X Mobility’s stage three win, when Sigrid Ytterhus Haugset spent 88.5km alone off the front before taking the jersey. Marlen Reusser later seized the lead in the stage four time trial, while Elisa Longo Borghini finished third overall and helped UAE Team ADQ to the team classification title.
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