Confession: What do you do that TrainerRoad doesn't recommend?

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Lower gearing can allow the trainer resistance unit to adjust faster. But setting gearing can be done for different reasons.

Lower gearing is also more quiet and may be more like the flywheel speed of slower hill climbing or off road riding.

Faster flywheel speed may feel more like outside riding at faster speeds.

Additionally, some trainers have power floors and ceilings that require shifting to hit high or low power targets.

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I go all out on what are supposed to be active recovery days.

I walk out the front door and say to myself “go slow, go slow, go slow”. I hop on the bike, go about 100 meters, look down at my head unit and I’m casually already 50+ watts from my Z2 limit and thats when I say “f this” and boom! I’m zooming down the local trails.

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Every outdoor ride, at some point, turns tryhard, especially lately. What’s the point of getting fitter and fitter if I can’t just hammer hard up a hill?

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Sometimes I focus on HR too much, but the other day a notification popped up on my screen for some event and obscured the HR portion of TR. I have to dismount from the rollers to reach the laptop so the notification just stayed there and I was HR guilt-free for the next ~75min.

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That’s why it’s fun!

I know a couple guys who every Saturday refuse to go out of z2.

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It’s not something they don’t recommend… They only want you to be sure you can handle it —> I sometimes like stacking harder workouts back-to-back (and recover hard as well afterwards ;p)

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Too much cross-training – this year.

Since April, I’ve been doing 15-20 hour weeks, but 30% of it has been on a rowing ergo. Does nothing for your cycling, really – Chad would rightly say specificity.

But, it’s something different, I like it, and I may only have one or at the most two years of racing in me anyway, and I reached my genetic potential a couple of decades ago.

(you guys with your sweet teeth, it’s ok – Valverde eats a small bowl of ice cream every night!)

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I imagine then you are probably eating just enough…

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This…but add in beer for me. :sunglasses:

(But due to blood thinners, it is only one / night).

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Occasionally my post ride food has been ramen…

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Ditto on ramp tests, mental block now.

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It was a rest week for me. Scheduled TSS for intermediate climbing race for me was 194.

I just did over 1000 TSS for the week and road almost 300 miles. 105 of that was a Gran Fondo.

I haven’t got in the TSS ballpark of my training plan all summer. I just do the workout but then keep riding.

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I don’t check my stem bolts

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They sound like laugh riots to be around.

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I love riding tubular tyres.

In the podcast, they often go for normal tyres and rims. But my tubular wheelset is incredible fast and smooth.

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This made my day. :rofl: :rofl: You’re not alone!

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  1. I enrol in mid-volume simply to make it easier to choose alternate workouts, only doing 50% of them
  2. I oscillate between 300-700 TSS every week, due to parenting
  3. I do enormous bikepacking multi-days a fortnight before A races, because otherwise I’d miss out on time with those guys
  4. I cross-post all my TR sessions to Zwift, for the socks
  5. I choose 1hr TTT’s instead of Thursday TR workouts
  6. I regularly fall asleep to Chad’s deep science
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Get a 1x and you are always in the small chainring and go with a 44/9for high gear!

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+1
I’ve only ever had one set of tubular tires in 1986 and only ridden for two triathlons… Mavic rims, Dura-Ace hubs, 7 speeds. I remember the first time I used them, it was amazing. I kept trying to explain to my girl friend how incredible the wheels were compared to my clinchers with what were probably the equivalent to gator skin tires. She broke up with me soon after, :slight_smile: but I still have the wheels mounted in my training room.