Trainer Road Spring Challenge

For those of you that do not know what Trainer Road is, it is an awesome training tool for indoor bike trainers. Anyone that has spent an hour on a bike trainer knows how boring that can be... enter Trainer Road. They have a whole host of workouts and programs to follow. You can stream Sufferfest videos so you can track your Suffering in TR. You can even stream Netflix and other video if that is your thing. All you need is a computer and an account. There is a small member ship fee every month, but it is so worth it.

What is special is you can turn any trainer into a power meter and all you need is a ANT+ speed sensor and ANT+ USB stick. Hook it up and train with power like the pros. For more information go to the web site and check it out. Everything you need to know is there and those of us that use it will be happy to answer any questions I'm sure.

http://www.trainerroad.com/

npearson99 - 2012-03-27 11:00 PM Can I play too? I'm just starting to train again after too much coding. I'm just getting into intermediate base II but I can do a test next week. I'm also on a diet so this is a good challenge for me! I'm shooting for 3 rides a week. Hopefully next month I can bump it up.

I don't know... are you sure you can hang with us?

i would love to join, please add me to the list!!

Rudedog55 on Trainnerroad

npearson99 - 2012-03-28 10:02 AM

powerman - 2012-03-27 11:15 PM

npearson99 - 2012-03-27 11:00 PM Can I play too? I'm just starting to train again after too much coding. I'm just getting into intermediate base II but I can do a test next week. I'm also on a diet so this is a good challenge for me! I'm shooting for 3 rides a week. Hopefully next month I can bump it up.

I don't know... are you sure you can hang with us?

I'll do my best! TR Username:Nate http://www.trainerroad.com/career/natehehe, the nice thing is if we need anything I'll just code it for us! This shindig starts April 1st, right? I'm still full of mucus...

Yes.... April 1st. April fools day

Hey Nate... the 8 minute test is the one we shoud be using to find CP and W/Kg right??? I was using Jorge's plan and his spread sheet to get my CP. I did a 20 min test and a 5 min test. I would use the test work out on TR to go by.... my CP was close to what TR said....

Anyway... what is the proper test protocol to use on TR for threshold and therefore w/kg???

I'm itching to go!  I was gonna do the test tonight but I'll wait until we decide just which test to do.  I'm gonna go hammer out some intervals anyway though

Oh, and I'm djastroman (surprise) on TR.

I'm Powerman on TR too.

In that case... I'll do the 20. The 20 hurts, but so far I have wanted to puke for a good 30 minutes after my 5 minute tests. It Really trips me out how bad those hurt.

I have been planning on commuting to work for training... it's high intensity TT type stuff... but now I'm stoked to bring the pain on the trainer a bit more. I have a possible century coming up 1st of June... I want to work hard at my VO2 and threshold on the trainer and get out for LSD stuff. A century June, July, and August with a total of 24K ft of elevation is plenty of motivation to start piling on the miles. Plus I have a personal goal of 10 lbs in 10 weeks so I'm really excited to get to work and see my results.

I am down.  RyanMac on TR.

I will probably do the 20 minute test as well.  It is painful but rewarding.

Giddyup!

I am in.  We have to do the test before April 1st or before May 1st?  I am starting week five of Build 1 in trainer road and really don't want to test until I am move on to build 2.

Trainer Road ID same as here:  orphious

http://www.trainerroad.com/career/orphious.  Not sure if you can see my career or not.

If we can do the 20 min test over the next few weeks, I'm in. Currently in week 6 of my HIM training and am due to test again in 2 or 3 weeks (20 min test)

http://www.trainerroad.com/career/cnsegura

My thoughts were the later you do the test, the lower your improvement will be. Less time form start to finish. So I think it is more of an unfair advantage if you stretch tests out further to have more time in between. Month to month will be shorter, but there is still the quarter... and this really only applies to the highest % change in W/Kg. Highest total TSS does not matter... that is only date to date from 1st of the month and three month total.

I'm going down to do my test right now. Since there is not a ton of people, I think we can just post up our totals here in the thread unless someone wants to do a spread sheet.

OK... It's on

FTP of 219 at 170.4 lbs gives my a FTP/Kg of

2.83 W/Kg

I'm trying to drop 10 pounds so hopefully that helps, and my plan of attack is going to be Jorge's FTP plan on TR. It will be a good focus for 7 weeks then probably move to Int 1 or 2 plan from there.

I already have 78 TSS points