2017 EN Tour of Sufferlandria Challenge - Who's In?
For anyone on the team, you know we have advised in the past that this sort of challenge in the Off Season is not suggested BUT every year, someone on the team takes part. So this year, we are handling things differently. If you can’t beat them …..join them, comes to mind.
We want to make sure that you do the challenge correctly, so you do not have to triage your body or the rest of your season. Coach Rich has put together a video HERE, providing guidance on how to participate and complete the challenge.
Full details about the Tour, if you do not already know, and are still on the fence about participating, can be found HERE
This is where we will be sharing our experiences, posting pics and videos and maybe slinging around some smack talk. Good luck and stay injury free.
Now......who's with me?
Comments
@Attila Matyas - I looked into the app. Seems pretty glichy still. I decided I am not going to fart around with it - especially since I like to do these in combo with TR while in erg mode. To me, ERG = do or do not - there is not try. I own all the videos that can be purchased. Therefore, when I looked at the stages, I decided to just sub in a couple of different videos for the app only selections. Only stage 1, 3, and 9 need slight modifications. What I came up with was (don't mind the dates - they are to accommodate my schedule):
2/4/17 – Stage 1 - Do on Friday 2/3
Igniter + The Long Scream (55min)
Alternate for Igniter - Elements of Style + The Long Scream (73 min):
2/5/17 – Stage 2 - Do on Sat 2/4
The Way Out + Power Station (110 min)
2/6/17 – Stage 3
The Omnium (50 min)
Alternate for The Omnium - Fight Club (58 min)
2/7/17 – Stage 4
Angels (56 min)
2/8/17 – Stage 5
Nine Hammers (55 min)
2/9/17 – Stage 6
There is No Try (60 min)
2/10/17 – Stage 7
Hell Hath No Fury (75 min)
2/11/17 – Stage 8
Revolver + Revolver is Easy + Half is Easy (130 min)
2/12/17 – Stage 9
It Seemed Like Thin Air (60 min)
Alternate for It Seemed Like Thin Air - The Blender (100 min)
@Attila Matyas - The subscription is $10 a month and you get 7 days free and you can cancel after the Tour. In other words it will only cost $10 to do the Tour. To me this is a super deal than previously because last time I spent ~$100 buying some of the videos.
However, as in my prior post, there are some stages that are only accessible through the new app (omnium, Igniter, ISLTA etc). For those, I am substituting similar videos that I already own. I don't have anything against the new "app generated" model of their business. However, I run a computrainer in erg. As of now, their app doesn't support computrainer. I have my space shuttle boot up sequence for TR, SF and zwift that reliably works, and I don't want to go back to IT school and learn another system for a couple of stages of this TOS '17 event (if that makes sense).
@Derrek I have all the videos already and used trainerroad for the control of my computrainer. The new sufferfest app doesn't support computrainer at all so I'd be left just riding it like a regular trainer and shifting to guess at the watts, just not the same.
So happy you have other CT users chiming in on this as I was about to bow out because of the CT and my dependence and enjoyment of the erg mode.
Keep the suggested substitution suggestions coming...
However, when I come out on the other side though, I tend to experience an FTP bump, and gain a few mental toughness tokens. I like to do at least one "in season" tour as well (repeating a past tour sequence) as I tend to respond to these type of challenges.
Help for a beginner to sufferfest?