Winter is Coming

Means it's finally perfect outdoor riding weather!

No specific workout, but tend use ones with several 20-30' blocks at a comfortably hard effort often. Sometimes adding on a longer one at say 45' just slightly less effort.

My wife and I watch food shows on the trainer.

Chopped, Iron Chef, Master Chef, Top Chef, Cutthroat Kitchen, Pitchin' in.  You don't really have to pay close attention to them so you won't miss anything during a hard interval and you can even watch them again in a few months and you probably won't remember a thing about it.  

One does not simply ride a trainer!

I did that last winter.  It made it all worthwhile.

Lately it has been Weeds.  The new Battlestar Galactica was epic! You may not want to ever get off the trainer once you start watching it.

This winter will probably be Sons of Anarchy, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Eureka. Might dip my toes in the Doctor Who waters a bit, too.

Wow, then you really are missing out on some great storytelling.

Lets see earlier this year we did all the harry potter movies, matrix trilogy, hell boy 1 and 2, terminator 1 and 2, Starwars 1,2,3,4,5,6. + clonewars cartoon season 1. Dredd, real steel, green hornet, and more. Lots and lots more, thats just what I remember while on the trainer. We spent so much damn time on the trainer this year. But it was a blast.

We watched all the Star Treks, next gen, DS9, Voyager and enterpirse while not on the trainer in 2012. It was a good year.

We are going to attempt a 8 hour trainer ride on the first iced in day of the winter, so you know in January.

If I am on the trainer just myself and have the tv to myself I love to velcro the ps3 controller to the areo bars and play Wipeout HD. Now thats fun when on the trainer. Any time you boost in game you gotta get your rpms up there too!

I say start with next gen, so you don't feel like your stuck in the 60s. For as much as I love the pacing of the original ones and shatner's Kirk is great, I think the story line and pacing of Next gen is a better place for new comers.

Although my wife watched enterprise first, and its more action oriented. That got her hooked, then we went and watched next gen, ds9 and voyager.

If you have universal sports you can always watch running, velo, cross country, diving, gymnastics, triathlon (if they put on any Ausi ones.)

Did 45' on that thing this morning.  Ugh... (was foggy AND dark out, so not good riding in morning traffic - which starts wicked early 'round here).

Honestly, it's like some kind of torture device.  My watts are low, my HR won't come up, feels like lava in my legs - can't figure out why it's suck a $uck-fest, but it is.

Only thing that made it a decent workout was to pick a cadence based on a song I was listening to, match that cadence to a gear that got me a certain wattage, and hold on for an interval (worked better at high cadence - grinding it out in a low gear doesn't work for me on the stand, apparently).  So, that's my "favorite," I guess.

I'm just gonna bundle up like Yukon Jack and ride outside (or revert to a winter run focus!) I think.

Good on y'all who can stand it!!

Matt

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