Puncher wrote:
Thanks for the thread. I did five hours on the trainer on a snowy day about two months ago, Z2-3. The session was not something I thought about much ahead of time, but as the goofiness of the lark unfolded before me--and the slush piled higher on my window sill--I kept adding hours to what was supposed to have been a 90 minute ride. It just seemed funny in a stupid sorta way to add an hour, and then and another. Like you, at the end I thought it was more of a mental than a physical accomplishment. Then again, once I hit three hours, getting to five was a breeze--one does kind of zone out after a while, even when the effort is maintained.
But the most suprising aspect about the little adventure was the depth of animosity it engendered in other triathletes when I--with a sheepish and sef-deprecating grin, or so I thought--told them about my work out. An animosity reflected in some of the comments to this thread. Funny how people get.
I did want to mention one thing I did that helpfed the time pass, FWIW. For most of the ride I stared a dark TV screen. But in the middle portion I popped
The Bourne Identity onto the DVD player. Whenever Jason ran or got into a dustup, which was not infrequently, I got out of the saddle and pushed into Z3. Damonervals?
You better trademark 'Damonervals' before anyone else does. Have you given the Matrix Trilogy a try yet? Neo has some really long dustups. You could call them Matrixervals...
I find getting to the half way point is the key with any set of intervals or long sessions on the trainer. If I can get to the 50.1 percent point then it is all down hill from there.
I wasn't really expecting much of a thread to start and I really wasn't expecting to be taken to task for trying to have a little fun while doing something most of us on this forum would consider somewhat daunting. I do find the 'if you're not at FTP^3 wattage level you're wasting your time' comments kind of comical. As you can clearly see in this graph I have been riding a great deal since the end of June so there is plenty of time for the hard stuff, besides, it's only frickin January.
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/o5ork I guess it boils down to: Those who can, do. Those who can't can only try to put down those who can.
Oh yeah, the screenshot is from the Cocoa / Objective-C project I work on when doing recovery and endurance rides on the trainer...
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I know enough to know I don't know enough...