training indoors

[wheelz]

Hi guys

 

this weekend is going to be very wet in CT so Just want your opinion on training on a indoor trainer.

It it genraly harder or easier than training on road if you ride at the same tempo. so if you do a 2hour ride on the road is it the same thing to do a 2hour ride on the trainer?

 

thanks

 

[Spartan SL]

80min on the trainer is as good as 100min on the road. There are less distractions, no robots, potholes etc to worry about. Your work-rate will be higher on a trainer, unfortunately your boredom threshold will arrive a lot quicker.

[gummibear]

Put on a loud music DVD.for me the time goes faster that way.

[Spartan SL]

iPod, dvd's, tv, anything it takes. If I could get drunk and do it, I would.

 

Great way of training, but mind-numbingly boring. You will completely understand Einstein's theory of relativity when you've been on a trainer for 2 hours. "The duration of time remaining upon an IDT has an exponential expansion rate in direct proportion and relative to the square of the duration of time having already passed." Time slows to a crawl.

[Capricorn]

it's not the same from a heat transfer perspective. On the road, you get cooled by your movement through the air. indoors, unless you have a fan, you start heating up a lot quicker for comparable expenditure of effort.

[1hill@aTime]

2hrs fark i loose it if i ride longer than a hr, idt's suck... Pray no rain tomorrow

[PPWTF]

 

 

2hrs fark i loose it if i ride longer than a hr' date=' idt's suck... Pray no rain tomorrow [/quote']

 

Interesting, cause I'm finding that with live HR data and a focused training prescription I am way more productive on the IDT right now. No excuses for HR wondering all over the show, no problems with finding a rhythm and staying in the grove / acheiving the desired training Load.....

 

Today will probably be my last road ride for a while; wind blowing like crazy, no chance of replicating the training load prescribed, an as a result tomorrows ride is now a very low key recovery ride and not the session it should have been.

 

Agreed it's a little challenging staying focused on the IDT, but the rewards have been more than worth it when I look at how progressive the training is as a result of controlling the variables

 

(Ok,yes, yes, I admit it, I'm a boring gadget loving loner who doesn't much like group rides / has no friends and plays well on his own..... )

PPWTF2009-05-31 09:06:44

[1hill@aTime]

Today wasn't fun at all the wind really hurt, but i'm not gng to give up my weekend rides for the idt, i do enough of that week day nights...