Intervals > Rowing now on Ride Cave

[Ben_Snyder]

Ride Cave - original post here now supports Rowing.

Rowing on Ride Cave: train by split, watts, stroke rate and more

Read and watch the demo here

Ride Cave now rows!
Connect a Concept2 PM5 or a Bluetooth smart rower (ANT+ PM5 on the desktop app) and train by split, watts and stroke rate.

Rowing
• A live rowing screen: split, watts, rate, SPI, drag factor and more, with 3 built-in views or your own
• Target panel: see where you are against the piece’s target, with a dot for every stroke that stays green when you nail it
• All Out pieces show your pace against your own average
• Auto-pause when you stop, resume on your next stroke
• Make it easier or harder mid-row with +/-
• 50+ rowing workouts, the Rowing Builder, and Atlas can write rows for you
• Rowing FTP with UT2 to AN zones, plus 2k, 5k and 6k tests that suggest your new number
• Every row counts in your fitness chart alongside your rides
• Summary with a per-piece accuracy chart, uploads to Strava, Wahoo and Intervals.icu, FIT/TCX export
• Schedule rows on your calendar

Turbo Builder
Type a workout one line per step and watch it build, for rides and rows. Cave Crew: start a line with @atlas and describe the set.

Build your view mid-ride
Edit any view during a ride, row or track: swap, move, add or remove items and panels, then save it.

Better on phones
One clean header for every player, with swipe between pages, and messages that never cover your controls.

Also new
• Pick your sports at setup
• Community widgets: browse, preview and clone
• FTP test results are easier to apply

Not for rowing yet: Auto Train plans, the 3D world, group rides and races, routes and leaderboards. They’re coming!

Full details on the blog. Let us know what you think!

[Ion-Lee_Kuiper]

Lately I’ve been testing RideCave for rowing instead of cycling.

First impression is really nice. Especially the visual for power and pace. It’s a challenge sometimes! Haha

Dislike:

• Cannot connect Concept2 with RideCave and Concept2. Seems only 1 bluetooth connection is allowed. Not a RideCave issue, but we have to figure out a way to log data on the main rowing platform, which is Concept2 logbook.
• Atlas AI coach is struggling with rowing workouts, or at least understanding. I asked for “Generate a 30 day Rowing plan from 1 november 2026 till 30 november 30. Use input from RowVember. Include my estimated rowing FTP, HR metrics. Goal is to row at least 100,000m in 1 month (30 days).” I failed to generate a response. Asked the same question to Proton Lumo and got a response which I can use. Downside is no possibility to generate workout files.

In general really nice. It would be fun to have an “onboard” viewer like indoor cycling, so we can race virtual on epic waters like Seine (Paris), Thames (London), Sloten (Amsterdam) etc.

[Ben_Snyder]

Atlas is due for a overhaul. Ride Cave is young but very vast and expanding rapidly and so Atlas is mostly still a pure cycling AI coach. Multi-sport plans are coming soon (we don’t have rowing plans at all yet).

Instead, please try Turbo Builder - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzD9PmmfEqE

Rowing, running, skiing and strength training are all coming to the virtual world, please stay tuned!

[Ion-Lee_Kuiper]

Looking forward to the new updates!

Found a bug: workouts created in RideCave and send to Intervals Calendar are mixed up in the RideCave calendar:

A 2-way sync would be recommended to avoid a messy overview.

[Ben_Snyder]

Thanks, a fix will go out later today for that duplicative workout bug.