Meanwhile, Zwift started in 2014, where I met co-founders Eric Min and Jon Mayfield in a literal coat closet at Eurobike.įrom there, these two grew over the years.
Whereas Nate continues on as CEO of TrainerRoad.
Reid eventually went on to join and revamp The SufferFest, which in turn is now owned by Wahoo Fitness. TrainerRoad started in 2011, where I met them at Interbike – with co-founders Nate Pearson and Reid Weber. Despite their differences, many users actually use both platforms (including myself), as a way of keeping themselves occupied indoors. But for the most part, Zwift has ignored TrainerRoad, instead, offering a relatively basic structured training platform. And it’s only been in the last few years that we’ve seen more acknowledgment from TrainerRoad that Zwift exists, as the company has seen more and more of its users leverage TrainerRoad’s training, to ultimately compete on Zwift. In the beginning, they rarely, if ever acknowledged each other’s existence. One has been heavily funded by investors, while the other has been entirely self-funded. Except, just on different sides of the tracks. And, the wheels seem to be in motion already.įirst though, as a historical tidbit it’s worth noting that by and large, TrainerRoad and Zwift grew up together. Over the past three weeks, we’ve seen increasingly clear signs that something substantial is about to occur between the two major players of the endurance sports indoor training world: Zwift and TrainerRoad. If one were reading the tea leaves of the indoor trainer industry, they’d probably be seeing some pretty interesting things.
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