recent results on some computerised home cycling training aid, and its making me uncomfortable. I’m led to believe he does it on a set up in his kitchen. This morning he showed me he’d done 300kms over 8 hrs on saturday. I am not a road cyclist. I don’t know what to do with this information, or how to respond. Am i supposed to be impressed at a man’s athleticism whilst he stares at a spice rack for 8 hrs?

Buy him some Vitamin D tablets?

Hack his machine and put more hills in 😀 Real hills!

22/23mph for eight hours straight?

Was he drafting behind the fridge or going it alone?

I think you should show him yours..

300kms in 8 hours is a bit far fetched, but he has no need to inflate his achievement. 8hrs on a turbo takes some serious commitment and that alone would impress me.

Take him mountain biking and watch him struggle! 😆

tell him to take the it off the downhill setting..

i think it was 8 hrs. there was an 8 in there. either way i was zoning out when i saw him approaching me eagerly with it out (iphone)

Sounds like the start of a really dodgy adult movie
“I have come to fix your zwift” (in a German accent)
“I can go for 8 hours without stopping!!”
“That lycra looks really tight, let me loosen it for you”
Etc….

8hrs on a turbo takes some serious commitment means you need to get a life and that alone would impress me and some more friends.

FTFY

Zwift, that’s what it was. Never heard of it before. Sounds horrible.

What an idiot if he did do 8 hours, no point doing more than 1.5 and for most an hour is a decent max. Christ I hope he’s had kids already, ‘cos he won’t have any after regular 8 hour efforts on a turbo.

What an idiot if he did do 8 hours, no point doing more than 1.5 and for most an hour is a decent max. Christ I hope he’s had kids already, ‘cos he won’t have any after regular 8 hour efforts on a turbo.

he has two already. amusingly this year alone, he tells me he’s probably spent thousands on carbon wheels and an ‘etap system’ (i dont know what that last one is)

I once thought ppl like this were stereotype exaggerations for comic effect. He isn’t.

He sounds like a fun guy,is he training for a really hard sportive ?

He sounds like a fun guy,is he training for a really hard sportive ?

i don’t know. should i ask him? i don’t want to lead him on or seem interested. He might become exited again. I don’t want that. Not after last time.

i don’t want to lead him on or seem interested

Oh go on,it’s what he wants more than anything 🙂

I know someone who did 7,000 miles on a turbo over a winter – he lives where it’s snowy so road riding is not really on the cards.

He’s an absolutely lovely bloke and very well liked. So let’s not judge the OP’s colleague!

He was wasting his time though, all that effort at low intensity. However, a certain amount of low intensity is useful so the OP might not have wasted his time depending on what he’s training for and where he started.

ask him when he’s going to out in the real world and do some proper cycling. Is he competitive? Show him your strava with the elevation profile then ask to see the elevation profile for his rides.

no point doing more than 1.5 and for most an hour is a decent max.

So no benefit in riding for more than 90 mins? 😕

Anyway, I feel sorry for his wife and kids.

He sounds like the sort of person you need to politely point out to what you’ve actually stopped cycling due to an injury and reminders about the loss of the sport you loved is too painful to bare.

Tell him it generally helps to connect the resistance to the back wheel 😉 . Eight hours on a static bike is impressive, but a bit mind destroying.

300kms in 8 hours is a bit far fetched

I managed 285. On the road.

Even 20 Muns in a bike in the gym makes me want to kill myself.
(Not really kill myself)

I managed 285. On the road.

That’s quick, not many people can do that.

Why is everyone queueing up to put this guy down? You don’t even know him.

Its what we do man.

Why is everyone queueing up to put this guy down? You don’t even know him.

Because there is ‘that guy’ in every office who has done everything there is bigger and better and faster than everyone else. And weirdly they’re usually the type who are moronic enough to spend 8 hours on a turbo trainer.

Bloke in our club isn’t allowed out much so mostly rides on his turbo. When he does come out, once a month at most, he rides with our A group which I struggle with.

He may be very fit!

some are taking this very seriously. What’s the world coming to when a guy can’t make a post alluding to predatory static trainer/sexual abuse from a MAMIL in the workplace?

Call him a **** ****.

Obviously.

So let’s not judge the OP’s colleague!

No,no. Lets. I bet his kitchen smells of sweat and warm tyres.

Turbo Training – whilst generally soul destroying – can actually be great fun with loud enough music 🙂

That’s quick, not many people can do that.

Why is everyone queueing up to put this guy down? You don’t even know him.

Well actually I went a bit further over the following 4 hours, bit anyone spending 8 hours on a bike deserves my respect. Even indoors. If it’s Zwift. then I suspect the watts setting on the bike is a little off, but Chapeau.

My office mates get to hear of my modest cycling achievements all too frequently – and inspect the race bikes I keep inside. I spare them the skinsuit blushes (although they did pay for some of it as a birthday present!)

Did he cook dinner whilst doing it?

Did he cook dinner whilst doing it?

haha. i dont know. i can only imagine the result.

Bet his kitchen permanently smells of onions/bo

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So no benefit in riding for more than 90 mins?

there is a big difference between going all out on a turbo for 90min (even for 45min!) and JRA for 3 hours!

Certainly for mountain biking, there is much more than leg strength required for long off road events, but basic fitness can be done in a much shorter time.

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I’m about to go on Zwift, wife’s away with Work and I have 4 & 6 year old kids at home so out for a night ride is out out of the question. I’ll be able to get an hour or so of excersise instead of eating skittles, drinking beer and watching the tv.
Sure, it’s not as good but it’s better than nothing!

Tell him John Stamstad managed 5 hours+ just staring at a blank wall in preparation for the Iditaroid?

Really, there have probably been 5 or 6 threads on here in the last couple of months, some really rather massive ones. It even crops um in discussions about mountain biking. Some mountain bikers use it. 😯
It’s probably best described as the least bad option. In 30+ years i’ve never spent more than ~45 minutes on a turbo or rollers. First go on zwift i managed 75 minutes. And i’m probably the least fit i’ve been since my 12th birthday.

I’ll be using it a lot this winter, as riding hard outside isn’t going to happen.