did a zwift fondo two winters ago for the first time, not really understanding it would be a flat out race. so all i had was two waterbottles for 3+hrs of hard indoor riding and no nutrition. i started to cramp a bit with about 30km to go, 15km to go both legs all of a sudden seized up in quads and hamstrings. i couldnt pedal, and had to stand and flex ankle hard to ensure the cramps didn’t seize up
had this been outside i would have just rolled to the side of the road and carefully tipped over.
but i’m in the basement…like an idiot.
i debated tipping the trainer over eventually allowing the cramp to seize as i tried to unclip before crumpling to the floor in a sweaty mess wailing. the dog thought it was cute, she came down to lick the salty sweat off my dying body
Yesterday : dropped my water bottle and it rolled under my bike. I have a wheel on trainer and it jammed between my wheel and trainer
Some time ago: dropped my chain while on rollers. Somehow managed to simultaneously unclip from both pedals and perform an unbelievable dismount landing gracefully next to the bike. I still can’t believe i didn’t mangle myself or bike.
(The younger crowd is going to require some drawings and historical background to get this one)
Dropped my iPod into the rear wheel of my wheel-on trainer - I was sitting up and spinning between intervals, so pretty limited brain power available. Earphones were violently yanked from my ears, I didn’t even notice the iPod falling, I thought someone was attacking me from behind. Screamed. Wife showed up, I’m still on the bike, staring at the spinning-down rear wheel with wires, earphones and iPod mixed in. Cut.
I have a reverse experience: getting your bike from Tacx Neo 2 back on your wheel.
Forgot to loosen rear brake caliper, so the whole wheel got stuck because I applied some force, not understanding what was going on (looking at my drive train). Getting that thing out of there again was a workout in and of itself!
I did Needham -1 just after eating dinner and drinking half a bottle of wine. I managed to keep my stomach contents inside, but that was the worst 1 hour workout ever!!
I’d say it was a mix of pale white and glow in the dark. I watched Cloud Atlas, Venom and then all Team Time Trial recordings I could find on Eurosport. I love this discipline so much.
No, back in the old days, like two months ago, this wasn’t a thing. Haha! I only did Knight of Sufferlandria. It was total fun! It really was. Sure, it did hurt and I couldn’t walk anymore for some hours…but I would totally get wasted again!
Solid idea. Being a bit skittish myself, I’d do that ASAP.
Counterpoint: mirrors are the scariest part of horror movies, so there’s still some spookiness.
Had the great idea to do the longest workout for me on a trainer and modified Ptarmigan to be 3.5 hours. The whole motivation was to ride it to watch the movie The Irishman - because no one in my household would watch it with me. Despite warnings from folks here about that choice of entertainment, I went ahead with it. OMG, the slowest plot moving movie ever made…I think it would have been better to watch a Congressional Session live feed with the sound off than this movie…
Yes, I successfully completed the ride and the movie. The funny thing was, I didn’t know that part of the 3 1/2 hour length of the movie was 10+ minutes of credits. I watched all of those too - somehow no less entertaining than the movie itself…lol.
Haha! Over the winter I often leverage long indoor rides to watch old lectures as revision. The time savings and reduction in exam stress are great, but by far the greatest benefit is my increased tolerance for suffering though longer events. This is achieved by months of 3+ hour sessions spent listening to my elderly professors mumbling about lab ethics and trying to figure out how to use a projector.
