Is anyone else thinking we plan a double century, 6hr, session around the Volcano, can have a Discord channel…just to say we knocked out a double, 160mi, ride on a trainer…
Line drawn…
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training for Ironman Zurich last year I did a couple of 80s, a 90 a 101 and a 102 mile ride. the majority of the time I was alone in a spin class room on a Stages spin bike, no windows, no TV, just headphones and 5 or 6 water bottles scattered on the floor. occassionally, a class would come in for an hour, but that was my only distraction. The first 100, I didn’t realize the odometer stopped at 99.9. I rode for another 5 minutes waiting for it to click over to 100. I was a little bit out of my mind at that point
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You guys are mental!
I’ve done 2 hours exactly once. 
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3hr Z2 session today with a nature break at the halfway point. Although it was kinda boring my indoor setup is really comfortable.
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According to my Garmin the longest I have been on the turbo is 2h25m Up and down the virtual Ventoux. 1h37mins up and 25 mins down (warm up and plateau make it 2h25m).
The longest I’ve been on the rollers is 2h5m but with a 8min break after 48mins.
I’ve done few TR sessions of 2h, Tallac +3 was the first time.
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4 hours 15 min. Can recall which workout. One bathroom break and several TR podcasts!
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I had to look through my history on strava and my longest recorded was 6h 45m. I still remember doing it old school style, just listening to music. Was aiming for 100 miles using my kurt kinetic rock n roll and Garmin.
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It will be fun they said. Did it yesterday evening just to post here.
My wahoo tickr always reports wrong data at the beginning…
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I’ve done Mianzimu a couple of times as part of the IM training plan - it’s 5 hours. I’ve done quite a few of the 4 and 4.5 hour jobbies as well…tbh I don’t mind them but I have got myself a TV screen rigged up for this year which certainly helps pass the time.
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I used to be just music until this year, TV is a game changer for longer rides.
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4h43m … I just remember that was a long one 
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Back in the day (in 2015, well before disc brakes were commonplace), I qualified for the so-called Knights of Sufferlandria by doing 10 Sufferlandria videos back to back. Details on the challenge: The Knighthood Challenge | Wahoo Fitness
Each video is fairly tough, so the intensity had to be ramped down to 70%. While I enjoy long challenges, and I have four everestings to my name, I hardly ever do anything longer than 90 minutes indoors, and will never attempt an e-everesting; I believe there is a limit too how much indoor cycling you are motivated to do, and wasting it on such an effort is pointless.
If you can read Norwegian or you don’t mind using Google Translate, you can read about the madness here: RULLENES KONGER | Sykler | LANDEVEI.NO.
While being a novel experience, there are certainly wiser ways to spend a day off, for example 90 minutes on the trainer and the remaining 10 hours doing lots of other things.
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A couple of lockdown rides. 1st a 6 hour ride attempting to cover 200 virtual km’s on Zwift’s flats (managed 206km), then a couple of week’s later a 12 hour ride with a lot more elevation (and with an Alpe du Zwift summit finish. The latter put me off attempting a 24 hour ride 
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I did this as part of one of the Haute Route challenges on Zwift. The goal was to do 3300m. I thought it was 3000m… so nearly 6 hours on the Turbo for nothing!
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I went through a phase during base where I was regularly completing some of the 4+ hour z2 workouts from the catalogue. It landed me my all time FTP and w/kg PB in the ramp test that followed.
I think there’s something pretty potent about pedalling without a single rest/freewheel for 4hrs, it feels like the equivalent of doing 6hrs outdoors. Another benefit of gritting it though these sessions is they make all subsequent ‘normal’ workouts fly by.
The key to getting through it is fuelling and breaking it up with standing/aero sections every 5-10 mins, as well as lining up a couple of good movies to watch. I got shocked comments on strava whenever I’d do these rides but they never felt that awful to me; maybe I have a higher than normal tolerance to indoor training.
If you have any issues with your fit, these sessions will show them to you.
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3 hour flat 100k Zwift group ride for me. My 1st 100k. I’d like to knock out some longer rides but not sure how to fit them in to a LV plan.
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That feeling when you go back to the turbo sessions being “only” an hour is priceless.
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But how fast does it wear off?
6 hours.
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