BigRingVR 8.0.1.109 released — Training Plans are here! (Release Candidate 1)

49 builds since 8.0.0.960, and the big news is Training Plans: structured training on real roads, in the app and on our website. BigRingVR 8 is now feature-complete, and this is our first Release Candidate — from here until the official BigRingVR 8 release, together with our new website, every build is about polish and fixes, so your feedback on this one counts more than ever.

⏱️ 1. Training Plans — structured training on real roads

This is the biggest addition to BigRingVR in a long time. A new Training tab on the left bar brings structured training to BigRingVR, included with your subscription. Every workout scales to your FTP, and you ride it on a real road of your choice — a climb in the Alps, a coastal road, a valley you've always wanted to see.

• Plans — 18 training plans in 6 categories: Getting Started, General Fitness, Build FTP, Climbing, Endurance / Gran Fondo, and Race & Event Prep. Every category comes with 3 plans, from easier to harder, so you can start where you are today and step up when you're ready. Pick your training days and start — your sessions are scheduled for you.
• My plan — your week at a glance: today's session, what's next, and your progress through the plan. Choose a Ride picks the road for today's workout; Skip moves on.
• Workouts — we've added new workouts, and the BigRingVR library now has 68 of them. All in one list, filtered by name, type, tag, time, TSS and intensity, with a power profile for every workout. Your own .zwo, .erg and .mrc files appear here too (Show → My workouts).

Riding a workout is now as easy as it gets: pick the workout first, then Choose a Ride takes you to the Rides list to pick the road — the workout comes along with you. Prefer to start from a ride? Pick the ride first and choose a workout before you start, just as you always have.

Home shows your next training session, so today's workout is one click away.

In the app or on the web — your choice. You can also browse, start and manage your training plan on our preview website, preview.bigringvr.com/training — it looks and works the same as in the app, and it's the same plan in both places. Start a plan on the website tonight, ride today's session in the app tomorrow; pick whichever you like.

🎨 2. A new look — everything in one window

• Settings now opens right inside the app, with General, Ride Experience, Account, Rider Profile, Videos, Sensors, Trainer, Integrations and About side by side. The first-run wizard, sensor setup, speed test and sign-in open inside the app too.
• The left bar now carries your sensor lights (green while data is coming in) and your profile picture — click them for Settings → Sensors and Account.
• Theme and Check for Updates sit on the left bar, one click away, together with Feedback.
• Links are easy to read on every theme, dark ones included.

🗺️ 3. Rides on a map

Switch the Rides list between List and Map (top right). Every ride is a pin at its start, coloured by difficulty. Click a pin to see the ride on the right, ready to ride. Pick a country or type a name and the map shows you where those rides are. Zoom with the + / − buttons or your mouse wheel.

⭐ 4. Favourites and scheduled rides, one click

Every ride card and ride page has a ★ to favourite it and a 🔔 to schedule it — the same lists you see on the website and on Home. Build a Queue now sits at the top of the Rides list, next to List and Map.

📡 5. Sensors on Mac

Bluetooth heart rate, cadence, speed and power sensors on Mac stream their data from the moment they connect.

🏁 6. Racing and ride queues

• Riding a queue? Press T to switch the metrics bar to totals for the whole queue — distance, time, climbing and averages — and T again for this ride. A small 2/3 on the time dial shows where you are in the queue.
• Between rides in a queue: Enter (or Continue now) rolls straight on, Esc ends the queue, S skips the next ride.

⬆️ Updating

• Already on BigRingVR 8.x? You'll get this build automatically — just accept the in-app update prompt.
• Upgrading from BigRingVR 7.x? Please uninstall 7.x first, then follow the install steps in our earlier post.

System requirements: BigRingVR 8 runs on Windows 10/11 (64-bit), including Snapdragon/ARM laptops, and macOS 13 (Ventura) or higher. The Mac build is universal — native on Apple Silicon (M-series) and Intel Macs.

Download:

• Windows
• Mac (Intel & Apple Silicon)

What would help most from this round

1. Start a training plan — in the app or on the website — and tell us how your first week feels.
2. Mac riders with Bluetooth sensors: a quick ride with your heart rate strap, cadence or power meter.
3. Explore Rides on the map and tell us what you'd like to see there next.
4. Look around the new Settings — anything you can't find, let us know.

As always — if anything looks wrong, Settings → General → Upload Logs to Support right after the ride is worth more than a description.

Thank you all and Cheers!