What is your goal??? (mine is too lose weight and up my power and stamina). (3months of winter means lose 15kg for me-or am I dreaming?)
My turbo is cheap £140 (got it for half that) and it's used for when it's raining-which is every ride day so far!
It's winter-get rid of injuries, lose lard. Improve fitness in Spring to avoid burnout!
I try to get outside as much as possible but with my work and the shoddy weather I ended up purchasing a T.T.
My training is split normally between 3 methods:
Hill power for an hr with intervals of tough and super tough and using my cateye to monitor my heart and cadence rates.
Sprint power and high cadence sessions.
Stamina training which I do once a week and try not to use the TT so you don't bored!
I have captured some videos from youtube, peoples cam rides from all over the world and added music so I can ride in Germany, Italy, France, U.S. and Australia. All I need to do is delete the commentary, wind noise and add my fave tunes!
I have also purchased fitness DvD from Chris Carmichael 2nd hand and also downloaded 2 training vids from a site for £5 and £30.
Ok I have plenty of stuff I will never use so I never get bored but I do have my winter roadbike nearly kitted out.
Add some freeweights for my core and back-cyclists have shoddy backs.
Basically condition yourself, up your lactate threshold and have fun.
If its not fun you won't train!
Keep a training diary, calendar and change your workout every 2 weeks so you don't get bored and body never adapts to your workouts!
Try to get some commutes if you can? use as your recovery slow ride!
Make it fun and after a month you should be addicted!
Do some research on conditioning for cyclists.
See it can be boring as hell, just use it when it rains as a noob or go mental as serious athlete?
You can't beat social rides either!