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Riding indoors is only slightly better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick. I'd prefer to get wet riding outdoors!

Two hour recovery ride , making sure never to leave zone 2.
With no power you have full weight on the saddle, and it gets painful.
jebus what a boring experience the whole thing was.

No two ways about it. It is sh it.
Better than not riding but only just.

davehirst wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 16, 2024 8:29 pm

Two hour recovery ride , making sure never to leave zone 2.
With no power you have full weight on the saddle, and it gets painful.
jebus what a boring experience the whole thing was.

Do you have a rocker plate? That helps a lot with the comfort factor - also need to stand a bit from time to time.

Aside from that the only other option is to no do trainer rides at all then lose your fitness when it rains all the time or go out and ride in rain and cold.

Other thing is to ride with friends on whatever virtual cycling platform you use. Then you can chat and it makes the time go faster, though I know some people don't like any chat at all and get cranky with anyone else who talks on Zwift.

This week will be on the trainer to try and get some post covid lungs back, without being out in the cold (other than the shed out back).

Arbuckle23 wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 17, 2024 12:22 pm

This week will be on the trainer to try and get some post covid lungs back, without being out in the cold (other than the shed out back).

I did an outside ride yesterday of about 50km but did it really carefully given my ankle problems (achilles tendon). Trainer is definitely safer because if it feels wrong I just stop and aren't 30km away from home.

Body seems to be protesting at the moment.

g-boaf wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 17, 2024 12:33 pm

Trainer is definitely safer because if it feels wrong I just stop and aren't 30km away from home.

Yep, that is the best use. If the lungs protest I can just stop and go back in the house.

Well I managed 62km with the "Jacques" group on Zwift today - although the being Monday they were all going at grandma pace - pretty standard thing for Mondays, I presume everyone has destroyed themselves on the weekend some Monday is the recovery day.

I still put the brace around my ankle just to be safe. I went out to get groceries after and walking around was okay. I hope that's the end for those dramas.

Finally caved and returned to the 'Fulgaz Weekly Challenge' this week because they had a 27km/445m Italian ride that looked like my sort of terrain.

Three riders from 48:08 to 48:30 including Mr dumb trainer 'minimum 289W, maximum 330W over any distance'. Threw the kitchen sink at it and did a 45:00 with an all time power record over 45 minutes of 272W (289W normalised). Took both the KOMs, one by over a minute.

We'll see what eventuates and whether anyone mysteriously finds another 50W from somewhere! Annoyingly on my 'Cleveland-Wellington Point' ride one of my Strava followers has taken the KOM on both flat segments with 217W. I've done the same segment with 301W and am still about 2km/hr slower so now have the ethical dilemma of whether to call him out on it. Probably not worth it.

Rapha will have one of these in their Sydney store on Thursday evening. You have to book for the event.