First ride on the new CompuTrainer.

I picked up my new CompuTrainer Lab trainer yesterday afternoon.  I set it up, got everything running then jumped on it and did a 3 mile course and a 0.5 mile course to make sure everything was working properly.  I wouldn’t really call that a ride though.

This morning I got out of bed about 6:00 so I would have time to give it a real try.  I decided to try out the Sea Otter race course.  The course is 21.8 miles and has a good bit of climbing.  I figured this would be a nice test for it.  I was instantly amazed by this trainer, it is the least boring trainer I have ever been on.  In a way it actually makes training fun.  The flats are about like any trainer, the downhills are completely different though, it’s actually a lot like riding downhill.  The hills, now they are tough!  I couldn’t believe it but at times I was looking for an easier gear, unfortunately I didn’t have it though.  Some of the climbs were close to 16% and they actually felt like it.

By the time I finished I had ridden 20.8 miles in 81 minutes, burned 983 calories with an average heart rate of 149 bpm.  I had a terrible average wattage though, it was 205 watts.  I’m definitely out of shape.  According to the computrainer I had 4,866 feet of climbing.  It was definitely pretty cool!

All in all I have to say that I believe the computrainer is going to be a great investment for me.  I think it is going to help motivate me to get some training done.  I still have a lot to learn with it though.

Here is a picture of my setup.  In the future I will have a dvd playing on the second monitor.  Today I wanted to focus on the computrainer.

~ by lowcel on December 3, 2007.