el gato wrote:
Spartan420 wrote:
How do you upload a course to TR? I would love to do that for Chattanooga.
El gato - Great Idea!
https://support.trainerroad.com/...t-from-BestBikeSplit You need to install the Workout Creator app for TR, and then follow the instructions above. Pretty simple to do, and as sch340 said, it's invaluable to be able to ride the exact power profile, TSS and VI, and then run afterwards to gauge how it feels. for 70.3 CdA I ended up going through three or four iterations of the BBS plan, each time tweaking target VI and max power, until I had a plan I felt comfortable that I could run well afterwards.
I don't know if you have actually done this, but at least when I used BBS to download someone's 70.3 course to 'ride the course', it totally, utterly sucked on Perfpro (not trainerroad, but I suspect it would be similar.)
The small rollers and variations in the road are insanely annoying on a trainer. We're not talking 20 second ups/20second down, we're talking crazy spikes like 0% to 7% for a few seconds (the Kickr can't keep up with all the changes) throughout the whole ride. Feels totally fake, as on the road you just roll through these variations, but on the Kickr it's like your trainer went nuts on you - feels totally unrideable! I even used the "smooth course profile" function in perfpro which helped a little, but it still totally sucked.
I'll admit the last time I did this was 2 years ago, so if people are getting it to work well right now, I'll admit that I'm out of date. But I suspect this is the reason that you don't see STers reveling in how great it is to 'ride the race course indoors' - in fact, almost nobody here claims to do it.
I will add that I think it would be worthwhile to manually input a workout that just uses long continuous grades to simulate the course, esp the big climbs - I'm going to make one for a hillclimb that I love doing near my house for when I have to it indoors. I'm just going to manually enter like 5-6 segments by hand rather than get that totally nuts spiky .gpx upload.