Congrats to everyone who completed the March Embrace Every Moment challenge!
As we head into April and the warmer months, we don’t have a specific monthly challenge for you this month but we have listed out our 4 recommended workouts of the month in the ‘Cycling’ section of the homepage.
Also, check out our new Routes and although it doesn’t come with a badge, can you ride all the ‘Routes by Wahoo’ found in the plans tab!
Happy Riding!
Whilst you’re here @Rupert any update on the requests that in other threads for some info on the recent updated Sufferfest workouts, like Primers and Who Dares, and why they have been “de-suffed?”
Cool - and personally it’s actually quite nice to have a badge break from time to time.
March was all good. Plenty films to watch in March for the badge and recover from Februarys efforts.
I’ll chime in on the other side of the coin, badge hunting and compiling achievements in my SYSTM profile keeps me motivated and gives me a reason to keep me coming to your platform ~4 times a month justifying the cost, no available badges or achievements has me pursuing the same on the platforms providing them.
I’m the same. I want a monthly badge. How hard can it be to copy last month’s code and switch out the graphic and workout list?
yep. If there’s 4 recommended workouts this month anyway, why not give the badgers a badge for doing them? Call it the “transitions” badge
Also, while April may be warming up, it’s certainly not warm and all the folks in the southern hemisphere are heading into their fall/winter so it’s actually getting cooler for them 
Rather than throw this in the nit-picks, I’m throwing this question to you here.
Just went to ride Do As You’re Told and found it’s not showing in the library at all.
And then I checked and Who Dares is missing, too.
They were both part of recent monthly challenges, so I’m assuming they’re hidden while getting renamed and fixed back up.
Or maybe it’s a glitch on my end, tho I’m not seeing them on multiple devices.
But just in case some other switches were accidentally flipped, I wanted to let you know so they be made to reappear soon.
Thank you!
Rue the day also down. It’s in the library but won’t play. Being remastered due to licensing issues apparently……
I just rode Rue yesterDay. Wonder what happened in the background. Maybe a server issue?
This is what Rue the Day look like right now when I hit play.
Yep and there’s a note in the library to say it’s being remastered
Gaaahhhh!!! And, somehow, I never downloaded this one in advance of any potential de-SUFing! Arrgggghhhh
Gah! Just saw that note. Geez. And I just ride it yesterday. Hope it’s really just video changes… 
I put in a customer service request about de-suffing and got an answer this morning.
Hi Sir James
Thank you for contacting Wahoo - and for sharing your feedback about The Sufferfest videos. I have contacted our Content Team and was provided with the following information:
Wahoo is working to appeal to a wider audience and we have adjusted the language in some of the Sufferfest videos to make them more accessible to riders who are new to the app and Sufferfest channel. The workouts have the same intensity and have not been adjusted.
Thank you for requesting this information and for your feedback.
Warmest Regards,
good grief. talk about corporate spin.
Also, and I know I don’t have to tell anyone here this, (except for maybe Rupert who just doesn’s seem to get it)…deSUFing has NOTHING to do with workout intensity and the bit about adjusting the language in the SUF videos “to make them more accessible to riders who are new to the app and Sufferfest channel” is total BS. If you take out all the SUF language then there isn’t a SUF channel 
Quite, it’s nonsense. I worked in quality at a well known domestic goods company for a few years. The company’s research showed quite clearly that you can’t design a product that appeals to all, as the average user just doesn’t exist. What you have to do is offer variety and/or tailoring of your product to appeal to multiple user types.
From my years of servitude to the greatest mythical nation in the whole wide world, what I hear more often than not is that once someone tries a SUF vid, they’re hooked. Or not. But if they’re not, taking out all the SUF stuff isn’t gonna reel them in. This stuff infuriates me.
I replied to them with the below this morning. Will see if I get a further response.
Thanks for taking the time to follow up. Whilst I get the need to appeal to a wider audience, and think Wahoo have done a good job of taking the platform to a wider audience since acquiring the Sufferfest, by developing on workouts like ‘The Way Out’ by introducing the on location content, the inspiration videos and pro rides, all very welcome content that adds variety, and a welcome alternative to the Sufferfest for days when you don’t quite have the legs or just want a change, I am not sure dumbing down the Sufferfest is helping to increase that appeal, a view that seems quite prevalent on the Wahoo X forum. Whilst I get that the forum is only a lens on part of your user base, it shows that you risk alienating that part of your user base. I think you are at risk of trying to appeal to all, but inadvertently appealing to none. I used to work in customer satisfaction for a major domestic goods company and our research showed that there is no such thing as the average user that you can target your product at, you need to target a number of different user types to get maximum market share.
The recent remastered Primers, Who Dares and Do As You’re Told and the new Rollercoaster workout, I feel, as do many others, by trying to appeal to all, are actually not appealing to anyone in particular. They aren’t bad, but they’re lacking that certain something and just feel a bit bland and less well put together. The story line doesn’t pull you in or get you fired up and ready for a hard workout. The footage is edited less well, so that with these workouts rather than feeling that you are doing your efforts with the riders in the footage and hence immersed in the story, you are instead doing a workout whilst watching some unrelated stock cycling footage, at which point Sufferfest has lost what makes it stand out from other platforms and you may as well use Trainer Road and put some cycling on the TV.
The second point around adjusting the language is that what that language did is to prepare you mentally for the fact that what you are about to do will be hard and to get through it you need to accept that. By dumbing it down, the workout is no easier, but you are less likely to be in the correct frame of mind to push through it, especially if you are new to SYSTM. Maybe there is a balance. Take the 1 min ‘kilo’ effort in the Omnium for example. Perhaps describing it as the’ worst thing you can do to yourself’, is a bit strong for some, despite the humorous intention, and will put some people off, I get that, but dumbing it down to say, ‘this will be fine, you have got this’ may then leave people shell shocked at how hard the effort is to finish when they get into it. Perhaps better to say something to the effect of, ‘this is going to be very hard, and you are really going to have to go deep to finish it,’ hence changing the language slightly but keeping the frank honesty that appeals to many. Although that would still lose the humor element.
Lastly, and this has been spoken about a lot on the forum but roundly ignored, the term ‘Wahooligan’ is problematic, especially in Europe due to the association of hooligans with the far right. Rather than being an inclusive name for our community it’s quite divisive and I really think the company should address that, it’s very awkward and something I just can’t get behind, with its connotations of racism and violence. Participation in the Wahooligan tour I understand is significantly down on the previous Tour of Sufferlandria.
I’ll close with saying keep coming with the fresh content, there is plenty of it and SYSTM is still a great platform, but don’t lose what makes Sufferfest great and makes SYSTM stand out from the crowd.
Kind Regards
James
I think you have hit the nail on the head there.
with all nine of my hammers 
They are both back in the library now. Rue the day still being worked on…
