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Was planning a 50 miler today outside but it started raining so I decided to try a monster ride on the turbo, riding the alpine classic Tacx vid..basically 55 miles, starts with a ride up the telegraphe, a short flat section, then up the galibier and the descent to bottom of alp duez before a final climb. I reckoned on 4 hrs total.
I lasted 2 km into the galibier before becoming overcome with boredom.
What is your record? I need to put in some serious miles between now and March with a week in Majorca xoming up with a much fitter pal. But weather not in my favour. I've tried trainer road, I've tried zwift, I've tried tacx vids. No matter what I do I can't face more than about 80 min on the turbo..not because I'm too tired, simply out of sheer boredom
Any suggestions?
2.5 hours. Big Zwift ride
30 mins. Couldn't cope with any more.
40mins I think. But I didn’t have any entertainment other than the pain and heat, so felt like a year...
Done nearly 4 hours before.
Helps to have something to listen to. That particular session was on a Sunday afternoon and included a couple of football games on Five Live.
That said, multiple hours on the turbo will always feel like a long time. The mental effort is probably more than half the battle.
3 hours, this afternoon, as I'm injured at the moment. It was doing blocks.
I'm not really sure how I managed it and I'm not sure I could do it again.
Man up and go ride outside 😉
About 25mins, here I am setting my record!
Sub 10 mins. Dreadful things.
90mins using Trainerroad, about 20mins without.
2.5hours. Orange is the new black was on Netflix, that was the worst part
32 minutes before I died of boredom
I did 30 minutes today after doing a 26 mile ride on the road bike.
I'm hoping to manage a 1 hr session on the turbo later this week but I find it really boring...
40mins using the GCN videos on youtube. Think i tried 60 mins once but got bored.
Did 80 minutes last Monday evening. Zwift workout. Not particularly exciting but weight loss and fitness improvement requires it!
I did the 25 lap of the volcano challenge on zwift, think it worked out to be about 100km so was a fair chunk of time. Stuck a movie on and it was easy peasy.
I've done 2hrs before but generally do just over and hour at a time.
I did 1hr 45 on the rollers, i couldn't walk afterwards.
I know someone who did 100 miles on turbo in one go....just a nutter.
I did a 4 hour ride last year. With some decent films it wasn't so bad, but wouldn't want to make a habit of it.
about 4 hours on zwift....the 4 horseman circuit, 90km and 2.1k climbing.
it hurt
I regularly did 6 hour turbo sessions when I was training for Ironman. TV on, iPad on tri bars, all windows open. It was the only way I could get the long easy ride in each week without deserting my wife and newborn child for half of each weekend.
JP
1hr 20, started a sufferfest session while I had a broken wrist, went out hard assuming it was 1hr, by 1hr15 I was losing it, wanted to make the end but was blown, nearly fell off it dismounting!!
10 long long minutes.
The turbo has sat in its box for 10 years now.
20 minutes, on 2 occasions. Sold it straight after.
I may get a better smart one next winter though; the one I sold was super basic and noisy.
6 and a bit hrs on Zwift. I did the imperial century challenge on a smart trainer with 100% gradient back when it was the single Watopia loop so no flat options for easy miles.
Felt weird afterwards though.
I'd done the metric century version a couple of weeks earlier so it's not like I didn't know better - still, got some virtual kit out of it which obviously made it totally worthwhile!
I rode the Zwift Mega-pretzel, 109 km in 3:20 last weekend. It was no big deal. Tried to maintain 230 watts. Will do two hours tomorrow. It’s not all about Zone 4. Zwift makes the time pass on endurance rides. I did find a few more aches due to less out of saddle movement. This is on a KICKR.
Oh and I’ve done three hours on the rollers watching Paris Roubaix last year. Will do the same this year too. I matched sagan’s Pace at about 150-200 watts below him! Rollers are easier than cobbles.
I’ve done ISLAGIATT on sufferfest a few times (It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time)
It’s 2 hours I believe
Just over an hour is my record, I think I could do a bit longer though. Stick a podcast on to distract me, usually something funny. I guess it depends on your motivation, I'm trying to not get a belly and have a bit of fitness for when lighter nights arive. Winter miles, summer smiles.
I've rollers, which is slightly* more involving, but still, an hour is about the most i can manage
*but not much
I think it depends what your doing on zwift tbh I’ll do an hour and have done 2 at the max on a one of the challenges but tbh anything longer just seems a waste of life and I’d rather have a real world ride with coffe an cake.
I do like johns 30bmin mix workout thou, might be worth doing something like that regurly with the odd race/ride thrown in to top up real world rides on good outside condition days.
I’m assuming your using a smart trainer that’s adjusting the resistance and not old school.
I did 2.5 hours on Saturday - two consecutive Sufferfest workouts on a Stages spin bike in the studio at the gym.
Wouldn't want any more than that as the seats are a bit wide for comfort. The weird thing is that there's no way I stomach that amount of time on the turbo at home, but in the spin studio the time seems to pass quite quickly.
I do enjoy the silliness of the sufferfest vids. I might give Zwift a try when I can be bothered to make room in the garage.
3.5 hours of Z2 on a dumb trainer and two movies. I’ll be avoiding that where possible again.
I think I did the long 90 min sufferfest video once. Not again though.
The longest I can do without going mad is an hour even with Zwift or whatever. I guess I could drag it out if I had to for training but is rather go outside for longer rides and use the turbo for higher intensity stuff.
For a number of reasons, Naomi Freireich did 673km as part of the Lap of My Mind fundraiser in one hit... including almost 4,000 hm replicated around the Scottish NE coast on Zwift
Bonkerz
^^ Blimey!
1hr45 but on Zwift but only because I’m doing one of the 12 week workouts and I’m trying not to mis any. There’s a 2 hour one coming up and I’m dreading it!
I’m working my way through a year of Podcasts I’ve not had time to listen too. I tried audio books - which I listen to all the time in the car - but I seem to miss huge chunks of the story.
Many years ago when I had my first experience on a manual turbo, I watched the same sufferefest video for about 3 weeks. Things have definitely improved. But it’s still you inside a shed going nowhere whatever the technology...
12 hours, it was horrible, never again, raised a few hundred quid for charity though. The mate I did it with did 24, but then he's mental 🙂
There is a story about Tinker Juarez training for 24 hour races by riding on a turbo in front of a white wall for 24 hours.
The most I managed was about two hours, when injured, and on very strong painkillers.
2 and a quarter, dumb trainer and Fulgaz...that was last winter when it snowed so couldn’t get my Sunday miles in.
Usually about an hour structured.
Watch a movie on Netflix - much easier.
An hour.
I think I made it past it once.
I'd rather be fat & unfit. Point blank refuse to use it any more.
I always thought that the turbo in front of a wall was John Stamstad
Years ago, I managed 17mins. Dumb trainer and music. Now we have a smart turbo and a TV set up in the cellar. It’s much much better. I’ve managed an hour so far
Edvald boson hagen did 6 & 1/2 hours on one as part of his pre-season training using zwift, that's pro commitment
Most is 1.5 hr trainer road session, normally 1hr trainerroad or Sufferfest. Smart trainer though so after a 1hr session I'm physically done.
2 ish hours, part of Zwift training plan as have a event in April I like to get fitter for.
I find a set/planed work out better, with pace changes etc to help keep you on your toes a lot better than just riding on zwift (normally stop 30 mins in)
I find if there is a lot of sets/changes music (catch up with Pete Tong) is better than watching something, as I tend to miss something from one.
Longer steady type work outs, something on the TV is OK, but something easy to follow and if you miss/drift off somewhere sunny it's not a big deal.
I can do an hour.
I need a good (eclectic) playlist or something interesting to watch, like a good Documentary.
What I keep meaning to try is an actual workout video like the GCN ones or similar from Youtube (I'm not using a smart trainer), but then I get on the bike and start going and think "I've got a spare hour, I'd rather watch something interesting or listen to some music I actually like" rather than do an interweb spin class...
I reckon I could go for longer but I think I should follow a workout video then just for some sort of structure, I might give it a go tonight actually...
I've done a few 5.5hr+ sessions on trainer road when ramping up volume during Ironman training. TT bike & frosty roads are not good friends.
Youtube and tenacity are definitely required!
4 hours, a couple of times. Training for endurance events when it's been icy outside, or recovering from a collarbone op when outside was still a bit risky.
Couple of films, some TV shows. Definitely a mental battle though, as it was pre-Zwift too.
On Zwift, I did 120 virtual kms a couple of times. Not yet managed the 100 miles.
40mins using the GCN videos on youtube
^^ This, although I limit it to 20mins, any more I'd lose the will to live.
Zero seconds. Me and my son in Evans: "What's that Dad?" "A turbo trainer for riding indoors". "What's that for then?" Dunno kid.
1hr 40, tried riding up Ventoux via a youtube video at an easy pace. Just gave up as soon as a distraction came along.
50-55min seems the average, time for a GCN video with warm up/cool down. I usually warm up on rollers now so do less on turbo.
Never occurs to me to get bored, the GCN sweetspot vids seem to break it up into manageable chunks with little breathers in between, it's a constant battle 'just' to last 5 minutes till the next sprint/break etc.
Some good tunes help.