The Dungeon.
This is it. This is the dark, cold dungeon that I am confined to lately, since the trails are wet and the streets are wet and covered with debris from snow melt.
You may notice some of the multimedia I have available among the clutter of hidden Christmas presents, and old bike parts. I usually set up at least one PC for web surfing, video, and I-tunes. Sometimes I watch some TV, and I have the wall to stare at with a few motivational items I have collected over the years. I also keep some of my old race numbers hanging up to remind me of better times. It seems no matter what goodies I put in this room, training indoors still sucks.
Please, someone post something tasty up here for me to read! I need something to get me through tonight's trainer ride. I don't care if you lie to me, just give me something to do!
You need a fan
Dude you need a monster fan in there. That little thing cannot possibly move enough air to keep you alive.
I went to HD and snagged a floor standing model for $20. I don't even turn it on for 5 minutes or so starting out my workouts. It moves too much air. I freeze! After 5 minutes I stop and turn on the fan to its lowest setting. It takes another 5 minutes or so before I'm comfortably warm. I think on it's highest setting I'd never get warm.
Mark Ewers
I may not be fast, but I'm 2 old 2 go slow
A Must
Definitely big fans are a must for indoor work.
fans... who needs um
ya so I do my trainers in my basement too... its a fully completed basement but I will say I've never had to use a fan. that would make it too easy... lol
Yeah, but
I HAD a nice fan...It was GREAT, but having 3 little boys running around...even in the room where we hide the Christmas presents...they find big fans and play with them....and knock them over and break them. My wife was partly joyed and partly scared to tell me my wonderful fan was broken...I used some old galvanized pipe and fittings to make a great stand that held a fan, 2 water bottle cages, and a rack of power bars and gels...it was ugly, but highly functional. Until my oldest knocked it over and dislodged the fan blade from the motor. Before I had time to fix it, she had junked the whole thing and she presented this "more attractive" fan as a gift in its place.
Yeah, I sweat a lot...but it is managable this time of year when I am not doing anything above Z3 work.
Indoor Motivation
Hi !
For very hard workouts i made a endless DVD from the Vuelta Team-Trial. The Music comes from Itunes or BBC-One. The new Rammstein DVD "Voelkerball" i saw during my Treshold Test :-)
http://powercycling.blogspot.com/2006/11/motivation-fr-die-rolle.html
Good Luck
I have a few specials
I also have a few special media bits for certain workouts. Some work better than others. For the very very hard workouts I tend to hear and see nothing except the roar of the fan (which I no longer have), and the readout on my PM.
I used to train by feel (with surprising results)...there were times that I would train in a dark room with nothing but hard rock playing in the background.
Over the years, I have tried a lot of things. It seems that they all only work for a short time before my brain looses intrest.