wexford
Maximum Pace
- Jul 3, 2012
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TrainerRoad are running a horrid little event called 8DC right now and it's keeping me indoors for 8 days of torture instead of being outside enjoying the warmth. It is setup like a stage road race where each workout represents 1 stage of 8. I just finished stage 3 today. Of 1877 people that signed up to do this silliness, 1067 didn't bother doing the first stage it seems. So only 810 riders left.
The stages are relatively long and quite hard. As with all rides on TrainerRoad, the workouts are based off your FTP so if you have a top notch FTP or a low FTP like mine, you'll be pushed just as hard within your intensity range. It works based on power, the workout is shown as a power graph of sorts and you have to match the power target as the ride progresses. As you progress through the workout, the TR app also pops up text descriptions of what's going on so you can mentally imagine things (kind of like an old text based adventure program). "Watch that move coming up the left." "follow them". "Attack!". "Don't you dare bail now!" etc. My imagination is so good and I'm so crap at hills that at one point I was all over the place on the bike trying to maintain power up this "hill" when I decided, holy crap - get a grip and just match the power smoothly. Things went much better then.
If you are wondering what all this looks like, here was today's effort.
https://www.trainerroad.com/cycling/rides/2038825-2015-8dc-stage-3
Anyone else out there doing this silliness?
The stages are relatively long and quite hard. As with all rides on TrainerRoad, the workouts are based off your FTP so if you have a top notch FTP or a low FTP like mine, you'll be pushed just as hard within your intensity range. It works based on power, the workout is shown as a power graph of sorts and you have to match the power target as the ride progresses. As you progress through the workout, the TR app also pops up text descriptions of what's going on so you can mentally imagine things (kind of like an old text based adventure program). "Watch that move coming up the left." "follow them". "Attack!". "Don't you dare bail now!" etc. My imagination is so good and I'm so crap at hills that at one point I was all over the place on the bike trying to maintain power up this "hill" when I decided, holy crap - get a grip and just match the power smoothly. Things went much better then.
If you are wondering what all this looks like, here was today's effort.
https://www.trainerroad.com/cycling/rides/2038825-2015-8dc-stage-3
Anyone else out there doing this silliness?