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Groovy ROUVY

Posted by Richard on 9th September 2025
Posted in: apps, Cycling, Fitness, Gear, Home Gym, indoor cycling, tech, virtual cycling. Tagged: , , , , , , , , .

Well I’ve taken the plunge and paid for a year’s subscription to ROUVY (£160 for the year) to run alongside my existing FulGaz (£86) and JRNY (£135) subscriptions. Yes, September’s going to be expensive with both ROUVY and JRNY renewals, the former for virtual cycling and the latter for the Bowflex T56 Treadmill (and indeed JRNY do virtual rides as well).

My favourite remains FulGaz for its real-life simulation and the way the rides cover road, path and gravel tracks, all filmed from bikes.  It’s also excellent value for money with my individual subscription having a free companion subscription that my wife uses. It integrates with Strava and it emails you a FIT file after each ride, but Garmin Connect integration is still over the horizon but promised.

JRNY is expensive and has no other app integration, so I record my treadmill runs on my Apple Watch Ultra 2 (for Strava) and at the same time on my Garmin fēnix 7S (for Garmin Connect).  But it is needed to have the big screen on the treadmill up and running (ho-ho) with either the structured workouts we don’t use, or the Explore The World runs which we do use, or the integration with Netflix so Alison can keep up with series that we don’t watch together.  The one subscription covers all the family.

ROUVY – owned by the same people as FulGaz – offers videoed rides from a vehicle and superimposes an avatar of you plus those for others on a group ride or ‘ghost’ riders, so it’s not as game-like as Zwift, and it does integrate with both Strava and Garmin Connect.

If you want to try it, here’s an affiliate link which will get me a £7 credit and get you 50% off your first two months.

January 2025 Stats

Posted by Richard on 31st January 2025
Posted in: Cycling, Diary, Fitness, Gear, Home Gym, indoor cycling, Pain Cave, Running, virtual cycling, Walking, Weight. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , . Leave a Comment

Back on it in January with my usual spike in weight whilst trying to cope with shorter, darker, drearier days and more work, work, work with deadlines to hit.

So it was back to a combination of running on the treadmill with JRNY adaptive workouts, and FulGaz, where they opened up their Grand Tour 2025 on January 11th, as well as my usual  John Hallas’ Weekly Challenges.

And there was the bad news – that originally I marked as spam – that FulGaz had now been acquired by ROUVY, an inferior app.  This was following FulGaz’s earlier acquisition by the Ironman group who then decided they didn’t want to continue with FulGaz and slashed and burned them; the story of the disposal and sale to ROUVY is appalling, as detailed over on DC Rainmaker’s blog entry:

Ironman Sells FulGaz to Rouvy, and Plenty More

I’ve been too busy with the Grand Tour to give ROUVY a try or even see if the Schwinn will connect to it, but from what I’ve seen so far, it’s not going to be a happy transition from FulGaz to ROUVY when the time comes and they stop supporting the FulGaz app.  ROUVY seems to be the worst of both worlds: some “Augmented Reality” in the way of rider avatars like Zwift coupled with lower resolution real life videos, some of which appear to have been filmed from cars, rather than from an actual bike rider.

We shall see.

Here are January’s stats (obviously assisted with fact that there are well over 90 days in January each year…):

January 2025 Statistics

January 2025 Statistics

Activities: 32 Distance: 485.69 km Time: 22:40:57 Calories:  22,814

Turning to my weight, at the end of December I weighed 88.1kg and at the end of January I weighed 86.8kg, which is down by 1.3kg!  Body fat percentage was up from 25.2% to 25.5% which is weird.