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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40-50 cold and windy miles on Saturday. Pastries on Sunday.
Still lots of snow up here so no cycling. I have a 30km loppet (cross-country ski race) tomorrow.
Weekend off the bike for a half marathon
More wet riding no doubt :)
Have a stages I swap from bike to bike. Another would save me having to do this ;)
1st ride this year!
Hopefully.
Thanks for always having interesting reading (and giveaways too).
We have a 6 week old baby at home. So skipping this weekend’s race to help out. Hopefully have a few friends around to get a decent ride in on Saturday.
Planning to ride on Zwift on Saturday and a chilly outdoor ride on Sunday!
Just a little golf
Cross country skiing in northern Sweden, forecast -10 C and perfect conditions.
60 degrees first weekend in March in Wisconsin? I’m going for at least 60.
Plans…. I had big plans but it’s been raining for a week. So it’s either get the flippers and snorkel on and get out on the road. Or, more than likely, a couple of painful indoor interval trainer sessions…
No plans for this weekend. Just a load of household chores, and hopefully a long run.
If there’s any every left, might get on the rollers for a bit.
A nice 1.5hr TrainerRoad session on the Wahoo on Saturday, followed by a day on the slopes Sunday.
TrainerRoad sweet spot weekend plan!
Spring cleaning time so full overhaul on road and tri. Ride if I get it done with daylight to spare
A long ride out over the Trough of Bowland tomorrow and a short cafe ride on Sunday.
2 hour turbo session tomorrow followed by a 3 hour zone 2 ride on Sunday. Hopefully it stops raining in the UK by then!
On saturday a 45-min recovery ride on the bike and a short swim. And on sunday hopefully a fast 10miles run from Ostend to Bruges.
Dust down the cobwebs from both myself and the bike. Easy 40 miles
Hopefully a late trainer ride on Sunday night!
I will go for my first +200km ride this year!
Doing some easy indoor cycling to recover from recent surgery.
I am having a long saturday ride of 3 hours in PZ3. Maybe i’ll start at six to avoid kids traffic.
Still pretty cold where I am. In fact, forecast says expect snow fall.
On to cycling plans… Zwift. Hoping to try out the new volcano KOM route and if I’m feeling especially ambitious, get that concept (tron) bike achievement. Just over 1km of vertical climb left.
Cycling all of key bisckayne, enjoy the cool weather in miami while it lasts!!
Trainer road sat. Easy spin sun.
85km in Liege Belgium on Saturday!
The plan is to counter the rain in Sydney by hitting Zwift on my early 90s repco trisport! Guess cycling plans also includes picking my recently crashed race bike up too. Yay!
Racing Icebreaker TT in Auburn, WA on Saturday, and the Ridge TT and road race in Shelton WA on Sunday.
Already failed to complete an Xert turbo workout, so it’ll be some MTB action in Dalby Forest. No hot tub.
Will be on the trainer with temps dropping into the teens.
Still winter in the midwest, so will be stuck on the trainer.
Since two of my sport bikes got stolen, I will be riding my everyday bike, trying to get the most fun out of it! :)
Team training camp in north Italy, lots of miles, lots of coffee. Lots of rain .
6hour ride to prepare for “de Ronde van Vlaanderen’
work saturday, so a quick 30mins of pain on trainer before dinner
sunday morn hopefully 50km?
monday hopefully 50km
planning to do some casually riding at the local forest preserve since it is going to be nice as well as a little more serious time on Zwift.
Coaching a beginners’ cycling group on Saturday followed by a 100km group spin on Sunday.
Riding up and down a volcano on Zwift!
Working at our local TT race…..
A 6km run around the local lake.
A nice ride around Chicago as I will be there for business over the weekend. Looking forward to it when the eather plays along…
This will be my daughter’s birthday party weekend, so instead of riding long miles I’ll be celebrating her second year! As a dad you know how fullfiling this is! ;)
Short of daylight and clement weather, turbo sessions both Saturday and Sunday….the joy!
Hope to find some time for A turbo training after Some skiing
I’ll be cycling to a training race and back. That should be enough hours in the saddle for the weekend. Afternoon is wachting the pro’s race on the television. Sunday if the weather is nice, an easy spin.
Living in the northeast with twin 5 month olds I will most likely dress up like a ninja to sneak out and keep warm, go for as long as my ever progressing dad bod with take me, and come home a broken man realizing that my once “rest day” rides are now one way tickets to bonkville…
I live in canada so it’s cross training for me this weekend. Just finished waxing the cross-country skis.
Just doing a TrainerRoad ride on Saturday, after a 5k race in the morning.
Kids duathlon sat, try hanging on to the A group shop ride Sunday.
Hoping to buy my first actual road bike and start the switch over from a strict runner to cycling more than my paltry amount I do currently!
Zwift 100km, swim 3000m, Run 12km. Thanks Ray!
Training’s been tough the last few weeks, I’m well behind plan! Half marathon in a fortnight so cycling has to take a back seat this weekend, but I’d love to stick a Stages on the bike soon! Thanks, Ray and CT.
Avoiding the 20-degrees below freezing temperatures, so sessions on the trainer.
Refereeing a rugby match tomorrow and then doing 30 miles with the cycling club on Sunday morning to earn a big breakfast at the cafe stop! Would be great to know how much power I can put down when I start contemplating the bacon and eggs!
25 mile ride on Sunday
Me, the P2, the Stac Zero, Zwift and a VO2 Max workout of some sort.
I’m training for the Saint David’s tour of gwent charity ride . I’m hoping to raise money for a good cause and complete the 54 mile route . Thanks
I’m going for a indoortraining session on Sunday!
Going to ride down the beach with the gf to feed the stray cats.
Cheers
With the improved weather hopefully the first outdoor ride of the year.
Also will give the new Zwift route a run.
I did not have a ride but my triathlete daughter had a computrainer session with her team. While she was doing that I ran.
Plan to do a 1 hour 10 min+ training ride on Zwift. The New England weather is still too cold to be riding outside.
60 min TrainerRoad on Tuesday
1hr45 TrainerRoad on Thursday
60 min easy TrainerRoad on Friday
240 min on Sat hopefully outside but if not on TrainerRoad till my kids wake up and I get board.
Plan to do a TrainerRoad session
2 days on the Elite rampa
Yes !!
More training inside on the Kicker, getting used to the time trial position. Only thing missing from my new bike… a power meter.
Weather is turning snowy here, again, so it will be time with Zwift on the trainer and rollers.
Pick me! Did I win? Did I win? :-)
Off to Napa, CA for a marathon so no cycling.
Turbo on Zwift with a hangover!
Week 3 of TrainerRoad’s Mid Volume Half Distance Triathlon Build… Whew!
Have my son this weekend, so big plans are to sneak out and get an hour in each day on the trails behind my house.
Sat: Road, 1hr intervals
Sun: MTB, 3hr endurance
Gonna hop into Zwift and put down some more miles.
Plan to mtb Saturday and Sunday
Too cold to ride outside so grinding away on the trainer is where I’ll be.
30k MTB ride on saturday, and hopefully 2 hours on the trainer on sunday
A short rehab run (recovering from knee injury) on Saturday. Yeah, I know you said cycling plans…so there’ll be some of that too on Sunday: a 2-hour trainer session in power zone 2 with 4×4 bursts in zone 4.
Going for a brief ride Sunday morning to shake off a calf injury
Trying the trainer again after a week of sickness…
Hej Ray,
I am planning to go out on my road bike for the first time in six months. Being a father means less time for yourself. But it improves over time.
Take me please :-)
I’ll be out Saturday coaching and Sunday on the turbo or maybe a ride in the rain
Plan on sticking on the trainer since it’s still too wet to ride outside right now.
Well, its going to be 48 degrees Fahrenheit with 15 MPH sustained winds. I’m going to take out the cyclocross bike and pretend i’m in the middle of Strade Bianche. I look forward to post ride snacking with our toddler and avoiding pink eye that he just developed.
Cheers!
Planning a loooong indoor session on zwift while eaiting for spring. Keep it up!
My cycling plans for the weekend are to go to the bike show in Toronto and continue my Sufferfest training program to get ready for our spring trip to South Carolina
Going out early Sunday for 50 miles or so
Riding the trainer and watching UK basketball!
300+ TSS weekend ahead, as for the first time the temp will hip +10C :)
Just 2 hours of riding on saturday. I’m now training for an ultra, so I ride just to do some cross training…
Maybe a trainer ride & dreaming of a power meter.
I’ll be riding my mountainbike on the local trails this weekend. I was thinking of buying a power meter for my moyntainbike for a while now. Maybe winning one is even better
Planning a 2 hour train ride immediately followed by a 5 mile run. Getting an early BRICK workout in.
Trainerroad Saturday, club ride Sunday
Indoor trainer for me. Too cold!
Planning to ride with my mate Stew my good luck rain charm on Sunday morning. We’ve missed the last 3 weeks. :(
I just hope to get out for a ride! Work has been crazy :(
Rainy here in North Yorkshire so may wuss it and have a hour or two on Zwift.
Trail run + a nordic ski this weekend