Done and dusted. Was a bit tougher than expected - a hard but fair test.
Fuelling pretty much spot on. I had 4 bottles of Sis Go Electrolyte with a bottle of water on standby. A couple of sweet potatoes, 250g of dates and a couple of gels. Finished it all except for the water, which I only need during the cool down.
Anyway, looking forward to my vacation on Friday now 
Good luck to the other guys doing Disaster this week 
Phenomenal work!
Awesome work. 
Excellent! Enjoy your well earned break. 
Just finished (Tuesday morning) the -2 version of the workout, as a test for the real deal on Sunday.
I wanted to do it last Sunday but my wife had other plans 
and ended up walking 6 hrs in the city, so my legs were like jelly. And yesterday was work Xmas party… so took morning off work today and did it.
I’m a long distance triathlete and I’m a “time-trialist” in the 4DP test by Sufferfest, so take my comments on the feeling with that in mind
Threshold (2x10min): I’m a slow starter, so actually first 10min at 98% felt harder than the 2nd 10min at 102%. Overall was probably the section where overall body stress was the highest
Endurance over-unders (20min @ 65-70%): pretty easy… just a bit “boring”
VO2Max (3x2min intervals @ 110-112-115%): Things started to get tough, but manageable.
Tempo + sprints (5 10sec sprints): The tempo section (85%) started already hard, but pulling out those 200% sprints was hard, and those 3min rest started to become “shorter and shorter”. I managed to spin high for the first 3 sprints, the 4th became a squat session in the last 3 sec of the sprint, and the 5th I managed to get back to the high spin. This was definitely the most stressful section for my quads.
Final endurance set (8min @ 70%): You know the feeling of tired legs when you ride back home after a tough workout… well… that’s exactly how I felt in this last 8 minutes.
Nutrition
I had a fairly normal breakfast (jam with toast and coffee) at 7-7h30am, spent 2hrs around the house and jumped on the bike.
Prepared 3 bottles of SIS hydro, and one of plain water, and finished probably half each.
I also had 3 SIS gels, at 35min, 1h10 and 1h45. No issue with nutrition, so one gel every 35min is ok-ish.
Now let’s do some tapering over the week, with some easy ride and do the full Disaster on Sunday.
Great summary and experience.
Nice work.
Hi @joeypurple7 . I am glad that you found the 2018 “poll” informative. [In addition to the user guide], for last year’s Disaster I put together the questionnaire and, subsequently, the results document (the “poll” you referenced that there is a link to above). Preparation of these documents takes a significant amount of time and given the success of last year’s questionnaire and this very late date (Disaster is underway) my plan is to use the same questionnaire as last year. However, if you have any suggestions that represent minor tweaks, I will review them.
For reference, below is the link to the 2018 Questionnaire. I will announce the 2019 Questionnaire next Sunday Dec 15th.
As for Disaster 2020: @zwillis1, @mcneese.chad, and I formed the 2019 Disaster Planning Committee and began work approximately 2 months ago. As we are just volunteers by choice and there is a lot of work involved, we welcome additional help! If you or any other TrainerRoad user would like to be involved in any aspect of planning and executing this event, including assuming responsibility for the development, delivery and execution of the questionnaire, survey results and user communications of such, we welcome the additional help.
Great job on the workout and setting your bar to a new height
Auw geeze, this again huh? Alright, fine! Since you twisted my arm, i’m in for Saturday.
Great ride! Super impressed.
Muuu haaaaa haaaa!
Tentatively pencilled in -2 for Saturday. I’m still somewhat in the sick house (cold), but also have a pass for a club spin on Sunday and looks like a weather window to good to pass up.
I may skip this weekend totally, and pencil in the full for the 21st. But again will be weather dependent. Did the full last year, but this time of year I have to prioritise outdoor rides when I can between family commitments and weather!
Just to add insult to injury I just had to ship my flux s back to tacx for repair/replacement. This is the second unit in as many years! So… Disaster on rollers…what could go wrong.
Report back… hopefully injury free…Disaster - 2 completed which is as far as I’m willing to go so kudos to those that have and will complete the full fat version.
Congrats!!! Taking on any D version is worthy of praise, IMHO.
Especially so if it’s time and or effort you’ve never done inside on a trainer.
Thanks for taking the challenge and joining the rest of us crazies 
