It’s March already. Which means that for many in the Northern Hemisphere you’re likely starting to increase the mileage and times of your workouts in preparation for the spring and summer ahead. As such, there’s likely no better time to up your training game with some new gadgets. Thus, I’m here to give you the power. Or rather, my partner in giveaway crime Clever Training is. I’m just like the guy calling you to tell you that you won the sweepstakes.
In any case….
As of a few weeks ago, Clever Training now stocks Stages power meters. So they’ll be giving the winner a free Stages power meter of their choice. As for the crank flavor: Carbon, aluminum, cookie-dough..whatever floats your boat…it’s yours. Hell – I’ll even say that you can pick up the entire crankset if you want. Hopefully, the CT folks won’t mind, because I’m writing this late and had a few too many glasses of wine to bother calling them. You can thank me later…or now.
How to enter:
Simply leave a short description of your cycling plans for the weekend (or, if you enter in on Monday, what you cycled over the weekend).
Note that if you partied in a hot-tub at a ski resort instead of cycling this weekend, that’s fully acceptable. I’m 100% on your side. Obviously though, simply detail that activity instead as your response.
Good luck!
The giveaway entry period will run through Monday, March 6th, 2017 until 11:59PM US Eastern Time. Winner will be selected randomly. One entry per person. The selected product/products will then be ordered immediately and shipped immediately, assuming they’re in stock.
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Abuse the inside-ride rollers in my basement
This weekends plan is to ride on the Tacx, at least 75km but should really start pushing over 100kms but it’s just so boring on a training :-(
…a 40 minute trainer sufferfest on Sunday!
Weekend “cycling” plans:
Today: Ride my Giant Defy Disc 1 home from work (it has a full Shimano 105 group that’s been begging for a power meter since I bought it last year).
Saturday: Run in the Florence Fourth 10k race in downtown Durham, NC.
Sunday: Recover from race with tired, achey legs.
Monday: Ride my power-meter-less road bike to and from work with somewhat achey legs.
60 miler on Saturday to Church Stretton in Shropshire and 50 miler on Sunday at local reliability ride. All a bit lumpy for this early in the year!!
Doing both is the plan. A long day skiing tomorrow and all the power left on Sunday, will be burned on the bicycle. Maybe a few kilometers around my home will good.
Tobi
As the snow disapeared, hopefully start training outdoors.
May take a short ride if the weather is nice.
I’m a runner, not a cyclist, so the sum total of my cycling-related endeavours will be (maybe) watching the weekly cycling show on TV, and dodging mountain bikers on the trails.
I’m on vacation so I won’t be cycling until next week :-)
Friday – 60 min TrainerRoad ride
Saturday – 90 minute TrainerRoad ride
Saturday afternoon – mountain biking with son!
hehehey, it is -8C here, so cycling is not imaginable. But I already plan to start in couple of weeks
Downhill skiing all weekend during the 20th winter storm of the season in California.
I just moved from Michigan down to Louisville, KY. Saturday is looking chilly so it’ll be a 5 mile run. Sunday should be a bit warmer so ~40 mile bike ride on the beautiful Louisville Loops doing some Strava segment sniping.
After six weeks of illness gonna get on the trainer…hopefully for an hour.
Saturday and Sunday: testing if right arm is strong enough to keep my balance on the bike
Hi :)
Saturday it is FTP test time after 6 weeks back on training. And sunday is group “ride” with will be real test ;)
My cycling plans for the weekend involve not cycling at all, or anything else for that matter. Vasectomy happened, now I get to be a couch potato. Following my recovery I’ll hit up the gym for an hour long cycle before work.
NO cycling at all… last “fast finish long run” to begin tapering for the Barcelona Marathon next Sunday
I’m not entirely sure… It’s snowing right now, but it may be up to 70 tomorrow. I’ll either be prepping the bike to go outside (woo), or give it another week while I run outside (woo).
3+ hrs of riding in the hills. Then falling off the bike.
Orphin race for me on Sunday ! Will save for the final sprint !
Since an injury is preventing me from running – on the bike I go!
10 hr safety seminar on Sat; joy, oh joy!
Fly, run, & then maybe a ride on Sun.
Nice 120 km loop in the Polish mountains on Saturday to celebrate the spring :)
Climbing back on after illness, maybe time to ride a 20 min test set.
I see Rubber glove in my Saturday.
3 hrs on the trainer on Saturday (I’m glad winter will be over soon) and then XC skiing sunday (I hope the snow stays for a while yet). What to choose, what to choose?? Is there a power meter for XC skiing yet? Now that would be a challenge! :)
Cool weekend in a Michigan, plan to finish the Week 7 FTP Builder workouts in Zwift with a potential metric century on Sunday. Spring can’t come soon enough!
Hoping to be on the “nice” bike this Saturday for the first time in 5 months. This year so far has only been the alloy bike or turbo. Bring on the better weather and the good bike
I’ll be doing a 42km 100% effort along the Cape Town Seaboard as final prep for the Cape Town Cycle Tour.
Long ride on Saturday, easy spin Sunday.
Some cycling in the Tech valley in the south of France
Some light riding to complement my running.
It’s still cold here, so I’ll be in the basement with trainer road for several hours
Get in a 20 to 30ish mile ride.
Expecting a couple of inches of snow this weekend – at least 2 hours of trainer time watching hockey highlights!
Club ride on saturday and zwift session on sunday
1.5 hr on trainerroad tomorrow and then another hour on Sunday! (at least that’s the plan…)
Hi Ray,
plan is two rides an easy 30k spin and a 60k coffee ride with a mate.
Cheers
Lajos
Planning to Ski this weekend (yes I know this isn’t cycling).
On a course all weekend so no cycling for me unfortunately :(
No cycling over the weekend; just some hiking and recovery from week’s rides in the snow.
Hopefully a roller ride monday morning.
And maybe a joyride Saturday night.
Specific VO2 max intervals, gradually trying to build an engine for the summer.
Still on the ski-to-bike weather roller coaster. 50s a week ago, 5″ new snow Wed and now highs in the low 20s. Forecast for 50 on Sunday so we’ll see if it’s a rollers or outdoors ride.
Dust off the cross bike to hit some gravel roads!
Callaway 50 Gravel Ride on Saturday, fat bike ride on Sunday!
Zwift 6 week ftp plan on Saturday and some outdoor sprints on Sunday
Cycling in the rain it seems
I am planning on doing some stanley park loops (a popular park in Vancouver Canada) and as per the request Thank you !
My tator tot (small child) is training for his first tri. I think we are going to experiment with a brick workout this weekend – riding and then running. Plus, he wants to find “proper” racing clothes, and we are going to explored around where that might happen for a small kid.
Friday evening is a 40 minute interval session on the turbo, Saturday 1 1/2 hours Zwifting with my brother and Sunday a 2 1/2 hour steady ride in the great outdoors :)
Going out for a long round on Vlaanders’ cobbles.
Cycling to the museum with the kids
Sufferfest, sufferfest and more sufferfest. Kickr is my friend.
100k ride around town. ?
I plan to get in about 40 miles of casual spinning.
Rain, rain, rain…trainer will do…some intervals I guess…
Long ride Saturday then mucking about on gravel and beaches on the CX bike Sunday!
No cycling plans for the weekend. Had a 1 hour spin this AM. Saturday is a long run instead.
Weekend started early. 1:45 of steady endurance complete.
Looking forward to the mountainous hills of Houston!
2 hours on home trainer
Hey Ray,
Cycling to my grandparents this weekend, ~100k round trip, just a steady ride, might throw in some intervals. Hopefully the weather is on my side!
Getting over the stomach flu, so whatever my body is up for this weekend.
A short Zwift ride
Four hours on the hotel recumbent bike. So sad.
I’ll ride down to the city center for ice cream
Interval Workout
A short 28 miler with about 2,800ft of climbing.
60 miles in the great outdoors both days.
My plans for the weekend include a longish run Saturday (1.5 hrs) then 1 loop of the IM Lake placid course on Sunday on the bike!
Depending on my achilles either some 100km rides through the east bay or just putzing around on my kickr to test out how it feels
I, unfortunately, will be flying in an airplane everyday this weekend, but I will daydreaming about my bike.
Hills, hills and more hills (probably in the rain)
Long trail run.
It looks like it’s going to be a commute to work….
cycling plans for the weekend are Zwift saturday and Sunday Winter Bike League (WBL) ride out in Halifax, Nova scotia
Hoping it doesn’t snow so i can ride outside!
2 hours recovery ride after my Half Marathon race inn saturday.
Two hour trainer ride on Sunday. Spring riding! So close and yet so far!
I’m skiing this weekend but will be back on the bike next week.
Route des crêtes – Col de L’espigoulier – Mont Faron
150 km – +3000 m
Continuing on my training for a half-iron triathlon in early April, I’ll be riding tempo for 2.5 hrs then running for a hour.
Weather says no. Only running this weekend
First time trial of the year on Saturday – 18 mile hilly. Easy 3 hours on Sunday.
Cold and Rainy in Vancouver, BC. (No surprise there). But first race of the season is only a week away. So will be a shorter (30km) ride on the Trainer on Saturday but at a pretty good clip.
2H MTB in the woods
Planning to do a 50km nice & easy Workout on Sunday.
Going with my wife for a 80km ride, if the weather isn’t terrible.
Sportcrafters Rollers=2x indoor rides of 15 mi each. Winter!
i’ll do 1 or 2 zwift ride. still to cold for me to ride outside here
Going for the first ride of the year and kicking off thriatlon training :)
Saturday century ride
NYC weather:
22F on Saturday morning
23F Sunday morning
… I will be riding Zwift !
Going to ride outside on Sunday if the weather is as good as predicted.
Hoping for clear weather here in bay area and I am going for my first 100 km ride. Wish me luck.
90 minute bike/run brick on zwift. Need to prep for the outdoors and a plan for on bike power meter.
Rollers in the garage tonight, 50 miles group ride tomorrow and back on the rollers Sunday
Zwifting on Saturday and loooooong ride on Sunday, enjoying the nice weather here in Cyprus!!!!!