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I've squeezed the turbo into a corner of the kitchen behind the table - laptop on table, drive side closest to the wall, back wall directly behind me so I can only be approached from one angle. Daughter likes to assist by grabbing my feet & helping spin them - she has waist length hair which she won't tie back despite looking like cousin it, I have to stop sharpish when I see her coming in case she gets stuck in anything.
Do folk on here tend to keep doing turbo sessions when the weather picks up? I tend to get about 100 flat miles in per week commuting when the weather's ok (starting again next week) then a couple of hours of hillier stuff at the weekend - I feel like the harder interval sessions have benefited me over the winter though, is it worth trying to throw an hour on the turbo per week just to hit the correct numbers? I don't use a pm on the road so unless i'm going for every hill 100% there's a good chance i'll be working lower than I would be on the trainer.
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If you have the inclination is good to do 1 or two high intensity intervals on the turbo a week and fill all the zone 2 stuff with outside rides.
I'm not serious or organized about training. I use the commutes as recovery/zone 2, not long enough for anything else. I do longer, tempo intensity commutes when weather and legs allow, hilly long rides when I can.
I always try to fit a VO2 session a week on the trainer, maybe more stuff at different intensities if I'm not riding out much -
Don’t see why not. Fitting in a turbo session when you’re doing 20 miles a day commuting might be tricky though.
If you treat it like going to the gym, and have a harder target driven session perhaps?
Netakure
Acliff
Completely agree with that.
I generally do any workouts when the kids are not in the house (nursery/school) as watching daddy cycling and putting fingers on moving chains and cassettes is far more interesting than whatever else that they would have been doing.