Who likes the movie Interstellar? Related (maybe) to TR intervals…

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During my last set of brutal interviews I basically concluded they are like Interstellar’s version of time dilation. In the movie, the closer they got to a black hole, the slower time passed for them — and on the bike, the harder you go, the slower time feels like it’s moving. One minute into an all-out sprint and it feels like you’ve been trapped in an endless loop of agony, while the count down seems like it’s stopped! You’re not just riding — you’re entering your own gravitational field of suffering. Einstein, it’s bike bro physics, don’t question it. :grinning_face: welcome to comment if time also slows….

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Sometimes 30sec DO feel like an eternity on the trainer whereas outdoor weekend rides usually pass by like gramps on his ebike doing 30rpm at 45km/h going 10% uphill.

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“Well, this little maneuver’s gonna cost us 51 years”

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IYKYK! I do love that movie!

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I swear I’ve seen the time remaining for an invterval move higher between glances, so basically time going backwards. Not sure what the exact science is behind this, but I think a flux capacitor is involved.

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I fully agree! Must be, right?

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30s max effort sprint is more like fainting: at the end of effort, wondering where am I and how did I get here?

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“Roads? Where we’re training, we don’t need roads.”

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I think the same can be said for longer bike races. Miles 1-50 seem to fly by, but when you start getting above 90…every mile seems to last 20 minutes.

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Yeah because:

Time is relative, it can stretch and squeeze, but it can’t run backwards

:rofl:

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"When a minute feels like a lifetime’
Tea for one…Led Zeppelin…?

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“I’ve been watchin for the hands to move, until I just can’t look no more“

Nice one!

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I totally agree with the sensation of time stretching and squeezing at different points in a workout.

I have watched this film whilst following a TR workout so I ought to have measured it more precisely!

Loved the bit where the space station had blown up and they were trying to dock…match my spin… seemed very appropriate :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

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