Let's see your paincave!

Heck yea! Guns Up!

Hi TriSherpa,

I love the lights, are they traditional lamps with Hue bulbs or an actual Hue light. I only ask I really want them I can can’t find the lamps on the Hue UK website.

The floor lamp is from Amazon. Doesn’t look like Amazon UK carries these, but they are like this one

Many thanks for sharing the details. I’ll see if I source some

So accessing a site in France and using the web browser translation and the pain cave appears to be my bread cellar.

Just had to share.

So you are hoping for a workout called “baguette -1” to be added soon, hopefully the workout will rise on your calendar and you will have proofed it in your bread cellar :joy:

After 4months I packed up my Paincave 3 weeks ago.


I have been doing outdoors workouts from the tiny flat Ive relocated back too since. I set it back up tonight though :roll_eyes:

Might need to change the name to “Training Tunnel” :stuck_out_tongue:

Pain Corridor is the term I use I think a Tunnel sounds too big :joy:

You know, you might as well just run rollers in there since you could never fall off them… :grin:

New apartment, new pain cave. Not 100% done, but finished getting the bikes mounted and some of the shelving up. Still have some organization to do. Hoping to pick up some rubber flooring for a little deadlift area. Cables are a mess behind the TV area, would like to clean those up a bit. I’m using the computer monitor to display TR, and the TV for entertainment.

I bought that rack after seeing yours. :joy: I dig it.

After yesterday days disappointing Ramp which is 60w below my 57 minute TT (for 90% tempo HR so arguably the difference could be more, the Strava estimate is an 80w difference :hushed:). I decided to look at my indoor set up and orded a 4x 5m extension lead so I could add my small fans. It was the wrong type workout tonight to say for certain but it felt a lot better, although I may move one too my left as bizarrely it’s my left face cheek that overheats :thinking:

Turbo Set Up

Quite a few changes since I originally posted.

Got rid of KICKR/Climb combo and inceptioned the wife into getting the KICKR Bike back in November. Took a few rides getting used to but quite happy with it now.


And today, one more update. Took delivery of a Woodway. With the recent Peloton recall the Tread+ will be going back soon.

Bike is going back in the room between the two treadmills without shelf/tv until Tread is picked up. No set date as of now.

Your left cheek is against the wall whereas your right appears to get fresh air from the door. Makes sense to me that your left is hotter given the tight space you have to work with.

If I may be so bold as to make a few recommendations.

  • Get a Lasko blower or equivalent. Those things really move some air. Put it on the table instead of the white stand up fan.
  • Consider mounting your extension cords on the wall and running the cords in (plastic / removable) conduits. I’d be concerned with sweating on electricity, especially the green extension cord.
  • If not already done, replace any incandescent light bulbs with CFL or LED. Incandescent bulbs generate a lot of excess heat that you don’t need, unless you’re specifically heat training all the time.
  • Carefully examine air flow through the space. It looks like you have two doors at the front and one at the rear. Do you bike with these all open? The fan at your back may actually be impeding air flow through the space. I’d try to setup flow of fresh air from the front to the back and out. Maybe mount the fan at the back above you blowing straight down, such that there are no opposing flow paths.

It’s a rented apartment so I’m limited on what I can do. I have a door in to the front of me to my living room. I had been keeping it shut to control the noise but I decided last night to keep it open. The door immediately to my right goes straight to my shower room and I keep that open and set back one of the fans by a few inches in there (you might see it peeking out). There’s a door immediately right of the gym fan but that is just to a cupboard which has the boiler and its kept shut. Behind the fan there’s another door which goes straight to a very small vestibule and the front door to shared stairway. Its kept shut also and my other bike during w/o is stored upright in the vestibule

You must centre the bike in the hallway before posting another picture :grimacing:

And the laptop.

The fans, I don’t mind. The bike off centre is like fingernails down a blackboard. :joy_cat::crying_cat_face:

Its off centered to maximise the pedestal fan in my face so its not blocked by the lap top. I know what you mean though :joy: :+1:

No really, do this. Its not that they are a stronger fan, the way it is delivered is 1000x more effective. Super soaker vs old school squirt gun difference. $70 on amazon changed my FTP from not over heating by more than half a year of training.

100% agree… i got the ‘cardio version’ with the wireless 3 speed remote… its a night and day difference, anything that isnt the vacmaster/cleva/wahoo fan is a distant second