Tour of Sufferlandria, starting 26 Jan
Time for some fun with your fitness. Reference to this has been on the dashboard twice. The boys over at Sufferfest are sponsoring a 9 day PAIN tour, I personally think it will grow to be larger than the TdF. I've got my minions down in the pain cave right now polishing up my bike, coating my chamis, and washing my leader's jersey.
Starts 26 January and the final stage is 03 February.
You'll have to decide for yourself if this can be worked into your training plan, but I'm in! You are probably not worthy to represent the motherland.
http://www.thesufferfest.com/uncategorized/the-tour-of-sufferlandria-9-days-of-suffering/ ;
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Bad link, trying again
www.thesufferfest.com/uncategorized...suffering/
Honestly, I am intrigued! I MAY be in. I gotta talk to my orthopedist first... LOL
For JOS'ers (or a first time OS'er), the timing is probably not ideal from a sticking with the OS plan perspective. But again, it all depends on where you are, what your goals are, and the importance you place on different stuff within your season. Good luck making the right decision for you!
Had me at “The course is carefully balanced between agony, misery and despair."
Good to see we do have some interest. If you haven't joined in event page on Facebook (and you like such thing), do so. Sufferfest updates notes about every other day with news and you can join the smack talk. Additionally, I found a very useful excel file that can generate your zones based on your desired effort levels. Its the ERG spreadsheet on the Technology tab on the linked page. Basically, on page 2 of this spreadsheet, input 3 values: FTP, Recovery % of effort and Maximum % of effort and it will spit out what each interval effort should be at (i.e. what the boys mean when they say effort of 9). For my values, I intend on using my tested FTP, 50% for Recovery, and 120% for Maximum. The 120% is based on the fact that I use Revolver for some of my VO2 intervals and the effort for those intervals is 10.
Moving into prep for this week (as I'm in the Nov OS), I'm going to manipulate my schedule as follows:
I hope that others join me in this thread posting the good/bad/smack talk that should go down with something like this! I will definitely use any and all mojo that others can share with me and hope to help some other peeps out with my own.
Good luck everyone. Lets get after this one.
@Roy:TrainerRoad integrates your power zones with the video. For some of the older ones you need to "encode" the video via Handbrake software (demo on TR site). Good luck to everyone.
I was under the impression you needed to own the video's to do those workouts? Is this not the case?
All those participating should post there TR usernames so we can follow along! Good luck to all.
I'm actually kinda excited about doing this. Should be a 'fun' time. Hope everyone feels comfortable sharing their ups and downs, I don't want to be talking to myself. Good luck with your final prep everyone!
Oh crap! Haven't been on my bike in months but thought I would give this a try. Could be the mojo I need to get my fat arse on the bike.
Maybe start my FT @ 150 and adjust up over the days?
This is gonna hurt!
Bike has been in the trainer for a week now so I guess now is as good a time as any to get back on the horse. Will set it all up tomorrow.
You, me and the Beaver? Gonna be a party.
Remember, what happens in Sufferlandia stays in Sufferlandia.
OK, If Carl is out . . . . so am I!
NOT!
Hell Hath No Fury is cocked and loaded into my Trainer Road software, Joule is charged and trainer is functional. Set my FT @ 150 to start and will adjust up over the coming days as I get a feel for my power level.
Now I just have to get up in the morning and be in Tom Glynn’s Pain Cave at 8:00 AM PST.
So who is in with me and Comiskey?
For sure:
Glynn
Stark
Comiskey
Ezell
On the fence:
Culberson
Eritou
Beal
Sarti?
Out:
The Beaver
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Stephanie Stevens is already up the road in the break. Hope we get some more action going. Good luck everyone!
My zones and Tour number posted up in prep for tomorrow morning!
Roy: Your FT is 290!? WOW! I am half the man you are! :-)
Let's get this party started!
Getting hyped for tomorrow morning!
I was yanking Carl's chain with the whole Beaver thing to see if he would bite.. But he never bit. :-) I like Honey Beaver myself.
But now that he has bailed should we call him Honey Hamster?
Where did you get ths???????
OK, I am representing!