DaniD wrote:
99% Trainerroad, the last two years, I usually only do one outside ride before my races to check the bike/tires, sometimes not even that. I've never done a group ride, i don't own a bike computer and never even attempted to do a structure workout outdoors. I don't enjoy "just riding" and i don't have the luxury of going for rides, in order to utilize my time I use TR to squeeze as much workout time as possible within my schedule, TR allows me to workout day or night with minimum prep time. I can do a 2 hour TR workout without music, TV or a computer, just me, looking at the inside of my garage door, and enjoy it just as much.
I honestly thought indoor training with TR would suck big time without TV or audiobooks, but turns out that most of their plans have workouts that are so friggin hard that there's no way you can do anything except grit your teeth and hope to survive to the end on most days!
I still remember the 'not-so-long ago good ol' days' when nearly everyone on slowtwitch and other tri forums would be horrified at the prospect of doing most of your bike training indoors. Tons of 'but you'll be soooo dangerous on race day with your bad bike handling', and 'it's NEVER as good training as outdoors, you're leaving a lot on the table', and 'the static position doesn't translate well to outdoors' was the norm.
Now it's flipped totally on its head - not only are folks here favoring cycling indoors, but people are freaking watching pro triathletes train INDOORS on youtube. Crazy!