What’s the longest you’ve been on the turbo?

rjfrussell wrote:

asdfqwerty wrote:

61 minutes, to be precise. Planned intervals make it bearable. Couldn’t ride for any length of time aimlessly without my Wahoo flashing up and telling me what to do.

 

Are you able to program a workout using the wahoo app?  I thought you had to manually change the resistance during the workout?

Not sure about the app but the Wahoo head-units support smart trainer control for rides and work-outs. They’ve also recently had an update to support generic FE-C trainers, like the newer Garmin Edge head-units do, instead of just their own trainers.

61 minutes, to be precise.
61 minutes, to be precise. Planned intervals make it bearable. Couldn’t ride for any length of time aimlessly without my Wahoo flashing up and telling me what to do.

fukawitribe wrote:

madcarew wrote:

I’ve done a few 2.5 hr sessions when I had a big race coming up and couldn’t fit the training any other way. Really though, It’s so unpleasant I’d rather stuff angry wasps up my jaxi.

That seems like a long time for some race prep – endurance event ?

Typically 100 mile race, Interval sessions including warm up

When i 1st got a turbo about

When i 1st got a turbo about fifteen years ago, i had plans to do epic length rides to get fitter. After several rides it became apparent to me that riding on a  turbo was dull, and was never going to be sustainable for long periods (of time). Think i managed near 1.5 hrs but it was so duul.

Settled on a couple of 30/40 minutes sessions in the end, dont think i could have managed anything longer due to the sheer repetitiveness

andyp wrote:

andyp wrote:

Sorry. The only thing you can say from that image is that *someone* was on the bike for over 8 hours.  Which – as you say – requires plenty of mental and physical fortitude. Still a **fact** that no miles were cycled and no tens of thousands of feet were climbed. All the little smileys in the world don’t change that.

 

The thread is about trainers, so the mileage is recorded in a virtual sense, it is still mileage and ft clmbed, no way does it diminish his effort. His trainer is a Tacx Neo so accuracy is beyond question. He can take those quality miles done on an indoor trainer and apply his fitness to a sportive/race. They all count. Just because you won’t accept the validity of his efforts doesn’t make them any less real.

Thousands probably hundreds of thousands now train for miles and hours on trainers recording miles, elevation, watts, calories. This year, I’ve personally ridden 4.5k miles with probably 3500 miles indoors, using Zwift, Trainer Road. I’ve used several other platforms aswell.

andyp wrote:

Sorry. The only thing you can say from that image is that *someone* was on the bike for over 8 hours.  Which – as you say – requires plenty of mental and physical fortitude. Still a **fact** that no miles were cycled and no tens of thousands of feet were climbed. All the little smileys in the world don’t change that.

 

I think “117 miles on zwift” was the original quote – which is true. Call them ‘virtual miles’ if you want, ditto the ‘climbing’, but it the same or more effort with terrain feedback usually (the majority I believe now). In the context of a discussion on indoor training, and Zwift in particular, I think it’s appropriate to just say ‘miles’ or ‘feet’ as it should be obvious what is being discussed. Or be a pedant, there’s always at least one when this comes up – hooray to them for making the world a better place.

I haven’t been on it for

I haven’t been on it for months.

Oh, I think I misheard.