Thank you Santa for my lovely green trainer, and for the brilliant people at TrainerRoad for concocting such an awesome package and, wow, for making it affordable. IT’S MAGIC.Īnd they only charge $10 bucks a month!! Sorry, sorry, I know I’m sounding like a freaking commercial. If all that wasn’t enough, it’s also set up so that I can drop in my beloved Sufferfest videos and TrainerRoad will not only play the vid with all my data across the bottom of the screen, but it will also match it’s workout schematic with what is going on in the Sufferfest video.when the vid climbs, TrainerRoad’s graph has me climbing, when the vid does intervals, Trainerroad gives me intervals.
Watching one’s level go up by an objective measure is SUPER MOTIVATING.
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PLUS you can do a test, a time trial, to let TrainerRoad grok your current ability, and then it will match your chosen workout schematics to your level. Boom, training with watts for peasants! Meaning, um, me. Because it seems there is math for specific trainers (like mine!) that can determine what your power output is at different speeds. I’m just on a trainer in my yurt, you know? But no, I get to train with power, too. That’s for those pro-athletes training in wind tunnels and shit. In addition, TrainerRoad gives you virtual power meter data, which is awesome because who can afford a spendy power meter? Not me. It’s like Sophie’s Piano Marvel program that does a similar thing with learning piano.īut wait, THAT’S NOT ALL. No cheating because there is the data, instant feedback, did you hit the target or not? So it 1) tracks whatever sensors you’ve got (heart rate, cadence, speed, power), 2) projects a workout schematic, and then 3) plots what you’re doing along that schematic as you go. Simple version: TrainerRoad is this nifty program that turns your bike into a game controller, with the game being hit the target (power, heart rate, etc), second-by-second, on a workout schematic ( intervals, climbs, etc, they have hundreds or you can make your own).
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No wibble wobble, even when standing up on the bike.īUT THEN… Part Two: In the box was a coupon for a free month with something called. The Kinetic is also super smooth, like riding on brand new asphalt, almost slippery.
At my normal <20mph speeds, the fan by the radiator next to me is way louder than the trainer. At 30 mph, they have to turn it up, but I’m a wimp, I never ride it that fast.
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At 20 mph there is a hum, but folks ten feet away watching tv tell me they don’t feel like they have to turn it up. The trainer makes a little hiss and, being a fluid trainer, an occasional bubbly sound. As in, it’s so quite, they can’t even tell that I’m riding, that I’m, in fact, blasting it over here, dripping sweat on my foam letters, unless, maybe I moan or something. People on the other side of the yurt (that’s ten to twenty feet away, on the other side of a standing bookshelf) don’t even know if I’m riding or not. Except for the free part.Įnter Santa! Because under the tree I found a shiny green Kurt Kinetic Road Machine 2.0. Plus the tension adjuster thingy was broken, which wasn’t such a big deal because you can just change gears, but…it wasn’t ideal. For the 30 minutes I rode, conversations were shouted, tv volume had to be blasted, it was annoying. This was awesome because 1) the trainer was free and 2) did I mention the trainer was free? But there was a downside: NOISE. Back in November when it got colder, I started riding my bike on an ancient trainer.
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