Randomguy Posted September 30, 2013 Share #1 Posted September 30, 2013 I guess I should figure out how to train with power, but I don't want to get too into the nuance of it all, especially since I will have to explain it to WoRG. Is there a postcard version of this explanation that would get me started? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted September 30, 2013 Share #2 Posted September 30, 2013 Just plant your butt on the thing and pedal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted September 30, 2013 Share #3 Posted September 30, 2013 Just plant your butt on the thing and pedal with metered power. fify Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted September 30, 2013 Author Share #4 Posted September 30, 2013 fify This was more helpful than SW's reply, thank you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie burgh Posted September 30, 2013 Share #5 Posted September 30, 2013 Go to the LF and ask Jim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted September 30, 2013 Author Share #6 Posted September 30, 2013 Go to the LF and ask Jim. Has he been back there? I thought he just disappeared. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopped Liver Posted September 30, 2013 Share #7 Posted September 30, 2013 Ride for 3 mile TT effort. Then for future rides, stay around 80% of that max effort...after your base...slowly increase the effort each week. Every 5 weeks repeat that TT effort to see if any improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted September 30, 2013 Share #8 Posted September 30, 2013 This was more helpful than SW's reply, thank you. I gave good advice. So, you travelled a bunch of miles, did a lot of work hauling it in the house, set it up in a nice location, dusted it, oiled it, downloaded the latest users manual... Have you ridden it yet? Get it good and sweaty, then worry about fancy things like power output. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olas Nah Posted September 30, 2013 Share #9 Posted September 30, 2013 Do what everybody else does with their trainer.... loan it to somebody else, then when he returns it after having used it twice, sell it at a $100 loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted September 30, 2013 Author Share #10 Posted September 30, 2013 I gave good advice. So, you travelled a bunch of miles, did a lot of work hauling it in the house, set it up in a nice location, dusted it, oiled it, downloaded the latest users manual... Have you ridden it yet? Get it good and sweaty, then worry about fancy things like power output. No, I haven't ridden it, didn't you hear my story of yesterday yet? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate Posted September 30, 2013 Share #11 Posted September 30, 2013 I dunno, RG. Call me a bluff old traditionalist, but I would think the next step would be to ride the silly thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted September 30, 2013 Author Share #12 Posted September 30, 2013 I dunno, RG. Call me a bluff old traditionalist, but I would think the next step would be to ride the silly thing I am, tonight after work! I will pedal, and more than once! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Silly Posted September 30, 2013 Share #13 Posted September 30, 2013 You can hang clean laundry on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parr8hed Posted September 30, 2013 Share #14 Posted September 30, 2013 I sure do hope that it does not give you a painful rectal itch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted September 30, 2013 Share #15 Posted September 30, 2013 I sure do hope that it does not give you a painful rectal itch. Is there a rectal itch that is not painful? Soothing rectal itch? Calming rectal itch? Those just do not sound right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted September 30, 2013 Author Share #16 Posted September 30, 2013 Is there a rectal itch that is not painful? Soothing rectal itch? Calming rectal itch? Those just do not sound right. They don't sound right because you have only had the painful rectal itch. I like musical rectal itch, or inquisitive rectal itch best. Gives you something to think about at the end of the day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted September 30, 2013 Share #17 Posted September 30, 2013 Is there such as thing as inquisitive musical nocturnal rectal itch? That might be pleasant to fall asleep to. But not on the trainer. You could fall off the trainer in your sleep and bruise your taint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banana!! Posted September 30, 2013 Share #18 Posted September 30, 2013 If you have an itch, scratch it. And wash your finger afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PissedOffLaxDude Posted September 30, 2013 Share #19 Posted September 30, 2013 Just stare at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted September 30, 2013 Share #20 Posted September 30, 2013 I vote for the laundry thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted October 1, 2013 Share #21 Posted October 1, 2013 Oh, for goodness sake! You use it to train - entirely - indoors for a race up Mt. Washington while all the time posting here and arguing with anybody who will listen that training on an indoor trainer is vastly superior to any other method in the whole world and that you'll ride up Mt. Washington in less than one hour because that's what the extrapolation of all your power meter charts say which is positively absolutely right because everything you say is so right anyway, because anytime anyone pokes a hole in what you perceive to be your version of reality you just change what you said so that nobody can prove you wrong, and that way you can show how very clever you are and you will have plenty of friends and admirers besides drunk Catholic farmers and neighbors who don't fix their fences and girlfriends who really only like your blank checks anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokey Posted October 1, 2013 Share #22 Posted October 1, 2013 All in one breath? AWSOME! Jimmy gave me a headache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted October 1, 2013 Author Share #23 Posted October 1, 2013 Oh, for goodness sake! You use it to train - entirely - indoors for a race up Mt. Washington while all the time posting here and arguing with anybody who will listen that training on an indoor trainer is vastly superior to any other method in the whole world and that you'll ride up Mt. Washington in less than one hour because that's what the extrapolation of all your power meter charts say which is positively absolutely right because everything you say is so right anyway, because anytime anyone pokes a hole in what you perceive to be your version of reality you just change what you said so that nobody can prove you wrong, and that way you can show how very clever you are and you will have plenty of friends and admirers besides drunk Catholic farmers and neighbors who don't fix their fences and girlfriends who really only like your blank checks anyway. I will do this. All this. I was on the trainer last night. I am out of condition. I must ride harder and longer. I must get some sort of instruction on how to use this thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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