Longest Workout on Stationary without going mad

Ride outside whenever possible

With proper clothes riding to 30 is comfortable, 20's is a bit more difficult but clothing/layer is key. Today it was feel like 38 with gusts up over 30, going downhill working hard to keep going 16 when normal hit 30...but soooooo much better than the trainer.

My longest trainer ride is just over 2 hours last winter. Last year I was bored easily, this year 60 minute workouts seem easy. It may be that I save my favorite TV shows via Tivo, watch them with my kids and have specific workouts to do with my new powermeter all which keeps me busy and on track.

3 hours....I live in Canada, too, so know the crapiness of having like 6 months a year of winter!! 

I try to use tv/video/music as a reward/incentive. I'll ride for 30 min in silence, then watch/listen for 30 min, and so on. I found that when I had stimulus (ie tv/video) for the entire 3 hours I got bored of that, too. This way, I'm  training so I don't rely on distractions, it prevents the distraction from getting boring, and it takes ALOT longer to go through the video collection!

Wow...I have only worked up to 30minutes and feel that I'm at my limits...maybe you are all already mad?

The longest I've done so far has been 1.75 hours, or two episodes of the Soprano's.  Netflix has become my best training partner.  I'm still only in season one (just started a few weeks ago), and I plan on having them keep me company on all of my trainer rides this winter.  I think it'd be cool to make it through at least one full disc (4 episodes) in one sitting (riding?) sometime this winter, especially if the weather limits my running at all.

I had to do a FOUR HOUR trainer ride after a two hour ride in freezing rain... (It was the last long ride before my IMFL training started to taper back, and I had to take it indoors after the first 40 miles...!!!) Don't know if I'll EVER do that again in my life. Thank God for DVR!

I did a 3 hour ride once and swore I would never do it again. Fortunately I live in the South were we can pretty much ride outside year around.

Trainers are great for interval or drill workouts though. Luckily those aren't usually longer than 45 min to 1 hour.

Ok,

 Then I'm not too crazy for going for 3 hours next weekend....that's the plan!

Woohoo!

That's still debatable!!! I'm good for about 1:15.......I'll leave the rest for you guys.

I made it over an hour on Sunday. I think it was about 1 hour and 3 minutes. My max time is about the same with the rollers too though I get bored less easily.

Luckily it doesn't snow here much, so I can ride outside year round.