Logging stationary bike time?

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2005-03-24 11:48 AM

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Subject: Logging stationary bike time?
I just wondered how everyone is logging any stationary bike exercise. I know the mileage and speed readouts are notoriously inaccurate, but the effort over the time should be close. I saw a listing for stationary bike under sports so that's where I've been logging my time. I also get outside on a real bike when the weather permits. However, now that we get monthly mileage totals, it's only showing part of my pedaling time. Since I haven't measured most of my running or riding routes and don't have a bike computer yet, I've mostly just been logging time and I could add in the stationary bike time as regular bicycling instead. Someone who also logs distance might have a problem. How do the rest of you log stationary biking?

2005-03-24 12:00 PM
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I put most of my pedaling time on an Airdyne and log it as bike.   I log the mileage reported by the Airdyne.  It is meaningless to compare that mileage to road mileage, but I can compare intensity among the Airdyne rides (which are the vast majority for me.)   Plus, it turns the square pink (as opposed to red) which has some BT elitist snob appeal. 

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2005-03-24 12:10 PM
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I do a lot of riding on a stationary bike. You are correct about the mileage being inaccurate. After an hour I have always gone 21.70 miles. It does not matter if I peddle fast or slow, use a lot of resistance or a little, it is always 21.70 miles. For this reason I only record time. I do consider riding a stationary bike as being similar enough to real biking to record it as biking.
2005-03-24 12:14 PM
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Subject: RE: Logging stationary bike time?
I ride a Spinner indoors and record time only. My training plan is volume based anyway, so distance isn't all that crucial. 
2005-03-24 1:32 PM
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I logged it as bike time 'caus I hadn't seen the stationary bick under sports. I'm going to re-log it there 'cause the lifecycles I was riding before I got my RED bike were WAY too generous
2005-03-24 1:36 PM
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Subject: RE: Logging stationary bike time?
I ride my bike on a trainer and put it under biking. I put in time, distance, watts.
Why not? It's the same bike every time and I am curious about RPE vs. electronic readout.
Maybe some of you are making the point that if one rides indoors at 23mph, one shouldn't expect to ride outdoors at 23? I agree. I just compare rides on the trainer to other rides on the trainer for measuring training effectiveness.

2005-03-24 2:23 PM
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I take all the data that the computrainer gives and put it under biking.  When looking at the stats regarding average mph, watts, rpm, etc. I compare to the previous ride on that particular course.  The mileage is getting included in my totals, though I do distinquish it from road mileage.

What doesn't get included is the 10 to 15 minutes warm up, and calibration of the trainer.  It doesn't give mileage when your in straight ergometer mode.  If I had a rear wheel sensor on my computer, I'd be able to get the mileage, but I'm not going to get overly anal about those couple miles i miss out on in my totals.  I'm anal enough about other training stuff without worrying about warm up miles.

2005-03-24 3:41 PM
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Subject: RE: Logging stationary bike time?

As I've got elcheapo trainer and my speed/distance sensor is mounted to the front fork, I only log time, cadence, and HR data.  But since its SPRING now, I hope that my trainer will continue gathering dust henceforth.

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