Sunday 3 Hour Bike

Sitting on my bike for 3 hours inside on a trainer is never a lot of fun. Connecting to the Computrainer makes it more interesting, but 3 hours really drags regardless.

Today, we did something a little different. Willem and Bryan came over and we set up our trainers side by side and we rode together. I put Willem's bike on the Computrainer and turned on the Lake Placid course. Bryan rode in ergometer mode. I just watched wattage on my watt meter. We tuned on a 4 CD set of the Rolling Stones 2003/2004 world tour concert and watched 3 CD's of that while we rode.

The time actually went by fairly quickly today. Willem stopped after an hour and a half. I'm not sure why the fastest guy around doesn't train for 1/2 a year, and still kicks everyones butt, but, so it is. I moved over to the Computrainer in ergometer mode when Willem got off. I screwed up my timing a bit. I ended up doing an hour in Zone 2 when it should have been 30 minutes. I ended up doing less of the easy riding in the last half hour, but all of the tough stuff. The 5 minute zone 4 bit at the 2:50 mark was tough, but I was able to hold on to 190 watts at 88 - 90 rpm for the full 5 minutes. My legs are dead now, but I did what I had to do. It was a lot more fun with the guys here as well.

Bryan and I worked out how to get the Real Video going for the Lake Placid ride after we'd finished the workout. It's too bad I didn't have that going when Willem was riding it. Jordan had to update the bios and install all new motherboard drivers to find the com ports, but once he did that, the video worked perfectly. Unfortunately, I'm too tired to do more than a couple of k of it, but it looks great. I can't wait for my next long ride to get through it.