You’re one step closer to the edge
That would be so cool if they showed up on Zwift routes. Bonus points to Zwift if hitting one causes your avatar fall over & your bike to buck you off.
If you are averaging 10 hours per week on a trainer then you are at the right of the curve.
I’ve been doing 12-14 the last few months, all on the trainer. Lots of people do as well.
I bet they don’t. I bet it’s less than 1% if that.
I’d gladly take that bet….while people doing 10+ hours on the trainer are certainly on the right hand of the curve, they make up FAR more than 1%.
The point Chad was making was that the hours on the trainer are the hours on the trainer….and it is only the hours training that matter.
That seems rather a high year round average on the trainer. Plus the 1% was 12-14 hours averaged over a full year.
I’ll still take the bet……way more than 1%.
I picked “10 hours” at random as an easy figure only. No claim to that being anything typical or otherwise.
Key point was that hours are hours (as Power13 recognized) and miles are a faulty metric, per the context.
I don’t care what split (trainer/real) anyone has. I don’t care what side of the curve anyone is or how far along it they are.
Sorry I thought you were saying that’s your average year round. Thus you’ll do a bit less, sometimes more but that’s your average over a year.
What about the many people who live in cold, snowy areas? Especially in cold, snowy rural areas? You can fat bike, which takes a lot of prep time to dress warmly, etc., then another chunk of time warming back up after because it’s 8 degrees Fahrenheit, and while fun isn’t actually that great a workout most of the time. You can’t ride the roads because they’re extra narrow from the plows, with big chunks of ice everywhere, and potentially black ice at any point, so there’s a very high risk of crashing. Repeatedly. Or just not ride, lose fitness, and suffer mightily when you get back on the bike in the spring. After the long mud season if over, of course.
Or, you can hop on the bike indoors early in the morning with like a minute prep time, do a bunch of Zone 2 while you space out and watch a movie on Netflix, ADD out on Youtube, maybe play a video game, then go about the rest of your day.
Indoor biking can be a totally enjoyable experience on its own, as long as you look at it as a completely separate activity from outdoor riding. If it’s just a stopgap until you can get outside, sure, it sucks. But l actually find long trainer rides (even 3+ hours) to be a nice, quiet way to spend the time. I sometimes do indoor rides during the work day depending on what’s going on. If it’s a Slack or Teams chat-heavy day, I can easily ride for an hour or an hour and a half, and get some quality work done at the same time.
Nope, I tended to be in the 7-10 hour range total with 80-90% inside. Totally different now though, since I reduced cycling for other hobbies since last year.
I liked: If you aren’t on the edge, you are taking up too much space. 
Brakes don’t work on my trainer. It’s like riding a fixie to a point… 
Help I can’t stop!! 
I would be interested to see what the indoor training stats are.
I just about manage to get my low volume (3.5) hours in per week. How many TrainerRoad users are on a plan?
I wear gloves on the trainer 
Fast bikes are bad for your fitness.
1% of what? TR active subscriptions? People who own a trainer? People who own a bike? People on the planet?
I don’t exactly understand the point here.
Maybe, maybe not…
