At least thats what it is when you are doing a long trainer workout.
The crew met on saturday for the inagural "tour d'DVD" at Jill's loft in Southie. There was struting in suprisingly clean spandex as well as some light stretching of excuses, overheard...
"I havnt been on my bike in 3 weeks."
"I dont know how to ride rollers."
"its just a slow leak"
"the software is calibrated for the wrong weight."
despite many of us preparing to fail, as they say. Everyone survived and made it over the "col de first workout". Helping us through was Natalia's collection of bike nerd DVD's. for the first 90 minutes we tried to get into "sunday in hell", the epic tale of Eddy Mercx not winning the Paris-Roubaix. Despite my own bike-nerdery i couldnt get into it. The footage was beautiful and it was great to see so many hard men rocking/running down tube shifters and wool jeresys, but amid all the long slow shots of the caravan behind some spring wheat and Team Peugot turning heavy gears on the cobbles, I kept thinking..."Ive only been on this trainer for 20 minutes?!" I think that I need something more distracting than an art-doc if all im doing is 2 hours at 65%. We tried Kill Bill for the last 30 minutes, but it turns out that Quintin Tarantino makes really talky movies, they just happen to have some violence in between all the clever "tete-a-tete".
In any case 1 brick in the wall, by base has begun. This morning I made it 2 days in a row with the help of a made for sci-fi channel miniseries "tin-man". Steampunk-porn is way better than bike porn if your just sitting on a trainer. Zoey Deschanel doesnt hurt either.
This week I will need to find my way to the used dvd-ateria. I think the work of Sir Bruce Willis will do nicely to get me into the indoor riding season. Otherwise i may have to (GASP!) man up and start riding outside.
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In the winter, I often opt for riding the trainer even when I could ride outdoors. The thought of getting all of the clothing on and off and cleaning the bike afterwards just puts me off.
ReplyDeleteAs far as things to watch, I select strictly action/adventure. The "Bad Boys" films are good since they have a high violence to dialogue ratio. Anything with Chuck Norris would also be suitable. Less plot more violence is the key.
Unfortunately, "Sunday in Hell", as much as I love its fruity artiness, was probably the worst video we could have chosen for motivation... My personal favorite is the Greg Lemond box set...you know it! The 1989 world championships is 40 minutes of balls out action. Brilliant. And the coverage of the 1986 tour makes me almost cry every time. Sniff.
ReplyDeleteI just watch the BBC
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