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[CraneCamsOU]

I may have an unfortunate dilemma tomorrow morning. Ride 60-70 miles outside, where they keep revising the temperature down. Originally it was start the morning at 40. With a fairly quick warm up to 50. Now it's star the ride at 34 with a warmup to 40.
Or I ride for 3 hours on the trainer

Yep, in the same boat here. Think I'll do today's 90min trainer road workout, and 2hr inside again tomorrow

 

[DieselUV]

i don't do wet, but i will ride down to 30. i got a new rocker plate for the trainer and it's def more bearable.

 

[FryingPan]

i don't do wet, but i will ride down to 30. i got a new rocker plate for the trainer and it's def more bearable.

What'd you get?

 

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[DieselUV]

What'd you get?

someone on FB was selling their kickr core and a Lifeline rocker plate. got the rocker plate for $150. last time i looked at buying from wiggle it was 300 just to ship.

 

[6SpeedTA95]

Wellllll, I guess it's trainer. They just dropped the overnight low to 28 now. Will be 30 at 7am.

 

[jared_IRL]

That's a little big for my taste, but I just rely upon Bicycle Rolling Resistance.com or whatever. The premium account is worth it.

Now try 32s

I've rode 32c Gravelking slicks the past couple of years as an all-around tire. So comfortable and a respectable (measured) weight of 290g.

I rock 32c schwalbes on my ‘road wheelset’ on my steel gravel bike. I have 25+ KOMs with that setup. It’s awesome.

 

[jared_IRL]

Wellllll, I guess it's trainer. They just dropped the overnight low to 28 now. Will be 30 at 7am.

Same thing is happening here. 24° at 7 AM now, with 4 mph winds. It’s going to get up to 55° by noon, but with 20 mph winds… Sucks.

 

[6SpeedTA95]

Same thing is happening here. 24° at 7 AM now, with 4 mph winds. It’s going to get up to 55° by noon, but with 20 mph winds… Sucks.

Our high is now 45 tomorrow and cloudy all day. I guess the good news is trainer rides are a lot more efficient/effective. I'll do the first 2 hours at z1/z2 and then do some intervals during the last hour.

 

[Alias]

I may have an unfortunate dilemma tomorrow morning. Ride 60-70 miles outside, where they keep revising the temperature down. Originally it was start the morning at 40. With a fairly quick warm up to 50. Now it's star the ride at 34 with a warmup to 40.
Or I ride for 3 hours on the trainer

During the week my cutoff is usually 40 degrees. An hour on the trainer is less suffering than being that cold. But on weekends when I have time to ride more, I’ll bundle up and suck it up. Not much sounds less appealing than 3+ hours on the trainer.

 

[Alias]

dunno what these have been going for lately. I've bought a lot from here and you can get 8% back through Active Junky

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That’s a good price

 

[6SpeedTA95]

During the week my cutoff is usually 40 degrees. An hour on the trainer is less suffering than being that cold. But on weekends when I have time to ride more, I’ll bundle up and suck it up. Not much sounds less appealing than 3+ hours on the trainer.

I don't disagree, but 27 overnight with off and on precipitation means there's a small chance of icy patches on road/rec paths. I'm just not wanting to deal with that shit. I agree outside > inside. Just not tomorrow

 

[N8]

I rock 32c schwalbes on my ‘road wheelset’ on my steel gravel bike. I have 25+ KOMs with that setup. It’s awesome.

Those 32c Gravelking Slicks I mentioned took me through Paris to Ancaster this year

 

[N8]

During the week my cutoff is usually 40 degrees. An hour on the trainer is less suffering than being that cold. But on weekends when I have time to ride more, I’ll bundle up and suck it up. Not much sounds less appealing than 3+ hours on the trainer.

I hate riding on the trainer for the most part.

But I do it anyway.

 

[Alias]

I don't disagree, but 27 overnight with off and on precipitation means there's a small chance of icy patches on road/rec paths. I'm just not wanting to deal with that shit. I agree outside > inside. Just not tomorrow

Yea, ice changes things. Not worth crashing

 

[Alias]

I hate riding on the trainer for the most part.

But I do it anyway.

I guess it's not TOO bad to z2 cruise and watch a good tv show

 

[N8]

I guess it's not TOO bad to z2 cruise and watch a good tv show

True, i've watched most of Full Swing on Netflix in the past week.

 

[FryingPan]

Wellllll, I guess it's trainer. They just dropped the overnight low to 28 now. Will be 30 at 7am.

Nope.

 

[chrislehr]

Ive been shit at pulling the trainer out but been sick, kid home from school, icy roads and work has been nuts. Been 5 days with no ride. Im itching.

 

[CopenKagan]

Ive been shit at pulling the trainer out but been sick, kid home from school, icy roads and work has been nuts. Been 5 days with no ride. Im itching.

Dude, I'm in the same boat. I was doing pretty okay up until about 2 weeks ago, and fell off a cliff. As soon as I'm over this cold, I really need to push myself to get back on.

 

[black jesus]

How much of my $55 rotor purchase went to stupid packaging?

 

[6SpeedTA95]

2 hours down. Time for a quick stretch, refill bottles and then some vo2

 

[black jesus]

2 hours down. Time for a quick stretch, refill bottles and then some vo2
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Watts Doc #23: Training Your VO2max, and Why Not Rønnestad 30/15 Intervals

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www.empiricalcycling.com

Interesting stuff at 12, 17, and 23 minutes about VO2 training.

 

[jared_IRL]

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Those 32c Gravelking Slicks I mentioned took me through Paris to Ancaster this year

That's exactly how a gravel bike is supposed to look!

I have a couple wheelsets for this bike, and I rock the 43c Gravelkings on my 'adventure ride' set. They're amazing tires.

 

[6SpeedTA95]

Watts Doc #23: Training Your VO2max, and Why Not Rønnestad 30/15 Intervals

Copyright © 2023

www.empiricalcycling.com

Interesting stuff at 12, 17, and 23 minutes about VO2 training.

Listened thanks for posting. Makes a lot of sense, I've been doing TR in the offseason and it's not bad but I've noticed some changes. Last year I built my own workouts in Zwift and seemed to do well with that. Some of what they're talking about here, I was just doing because it made sense to me. I'm going to make a few changes based on this listen.