{"id":1122,"date":"2010-12-05T22:20:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T22:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2010-12-05T22:20:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T22:20:03","slug":"turbo-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/turbo-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Turbo weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My neighbour and buddy Scherrit (aka <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebikewhisperer.co.uk\">The Bike Whisperer<\/a>) is now coaching me, hopefully towards a 24hr TT in 2011. I&#8217;m working through my first program now. I&#8217;m actually on track for the first week, even with the icy conditions in London earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was simply an hour on the turbo before saying bon voyage to Tim and Dale, two Melbourne lads heading home. See ya, guys!<\/p>\n<p>Although a road ride was specified I thought I&#8217;d have a go at the 3hr ride on the turbo. I figure a large part of a long duration time trial is going to be the ability to focus at a steady output for a long time. I HATE turbo workouts, they bore me to tears and the longest I&#8217;ve ever managed is perhaps 1.25 hours, so 3 hours would be a test. To make it more interesting (ie. cheat) I watched some Sufferfest videos (See: @sufferfest). I worked through Revolver, Fight Club and Downward Spiral back to back with a little bit of my own music added to crack the 3hr. It wasn&#8217;t fast, it wasn&#8217;t pleasant but I&#8217;ve now done a 3 hour turbo session. It&#8217;s probably better quality than doing it on the road since there&#8217;s no stop lights and no coasting on downhills. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My neighbour and buddy Scherrit (aka The Bike Whisperer) is now coaching me, hopefully towards a 24hr TT in 2011. I&#8217;m working through my first program now. I&#8217;m actually on track for the first week, even with the icy conditions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/turbo-weekend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}