There's ice on the roads, so my bike is now attached to the turbo trainer . And having spent 130 squid on it, I've got to use it. So ...
I can cycle for one to three hours 150-160 bpm, or until I fall asleep with boredom.
Or I can go b****x out for 40 minutes at 165-185 and then have to crawl to the bathroom.
Or I could go on pretty much all day at 135-145 bpm
But TURBO TRAINERS ARE BORING!!!! Even going fast is quite tedious. I have the turbo trainer in front of the telly, I've even got a DVD player, but I've never been a great TV watcher, so don't find them particularly distracting.
How can I make a winter of turbo training more exciting?
Boys (and girls) your help is needed!!!!
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3 hours on a Turbo is madness !
I use the Pete Read training manual (look in cycling weekly for the ad).
Sessions there are typically less than an hour. The longest one is probably about 40 minutes at your Level 2 heart rate - so that's pron that first session for you.
The rest is different intervals. The sessions are only short, but boy are they tiring. They'll make a world of difference to you.
Never done the three hours actually (ooops,caught exaggerating again), that's just what I would do if I had the mental tenacity and whatsitness to stay on a turbo trainer for three hours ...
I looked in Cycling Weekly (yup, we have it here on subscription so that we can salivate over the pictures of bikes...) and can't find the ad for the Pete Read training manual anywhere but maybe I'm just being dim...
So, sounds like Mr Read recommends short and hard. Oooer missus ....
I'll try and dig out his address from a back issue. It's only a little ad.
http://www.cyclecoaching.com/
btw
you can always wheel the TV in and watch endless Tour De France Videos during your 3 hours on the turbo trainer
http://www.cyclecoaching.com/
I prefer the blue book over the Annual Manual one.
Lovely sheet ice today!
I've got a mountain bike (quite a good one, so I'm told) but never ride it. The rather pathetic excuse is that after 40 minutes my wrists are agony. Keep meaning to get some of those 'sticky uppy' MTB handlebars but haven't quite got round to to it.
Not helped by the fact that I am a confirmed road biker and find MTBs a bit, well, er, slow and bouncy ....
...ooops
Take yer mtb off the road.. its where it belongs! and then point it downhill and slow and bouncy it ain't!! Hurty wrists sounds like bad positioning.. move yer saddle for and aft and experiment.. and maybe twist yer brakes 'down' a little too... The no' of peeps I see with brakes horizontal to their bars...!!
All I can say is 'ooops'....
Thanks
Ideally you want straight wrists when riding Lizzy. Wrists bent at 90 degrees aren't v comfy.
Cougster is right... (again) get the brake bars to follow the natural contours of yer arms as the go down to the bars so you have 'straight' hands to arms sort of thing...
Do they listen ? Naaaaaah !
Good spot on the levers Mmm - from 100's of miles away as well !
Now, can he use his psychic powers to tell me the setup I have on my road bike...?
BTW it´s different from the one in the piccy!
I prefer my bull horns to racing drops..
But it really is best to see these things and then 'fit' the bike to you...
If ONLY it were that simple!!!!!
CONCENTRATE MAN !!
There's an all carbon bike in it for you if you can do it.
Frame
Forks
Wheels
Seatpost
Saddle
Bars
Cranks
All carbon !
damn, you wanted me to concentrate and all!!!!
(this'll never wuk.. but I want a percentage if it does...!!)
7,22,11, 34, 36, and 5
hee hee....!!!
i prefer squashy leather
And I think they do do one.. sort of a carbon weave...
drool again...
Cheers !
(Lizzy - me too - but MMmmm is a bit of a masochist as well as being a carbon fetishist !)
how, after only meeting me twice, can you know me so well Cougster..?!!!!!
Oh, and the 24/7 stalking helps a bit.
Wonder what else we can test MMmmm's psychic powers on...
tum te tum
OK, the colour of my handlebar tape is easy to guess, but what colour would I *like* it to be? And do I have the tape?
Psst - Coug, if he gets this right, I'm going to buy a lottery ticket!!!!