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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This weekend looking forward to doing some road cycling on Sunday as the weather here is finally starting to warm up.
Thanks!
Today: 1h 10′ easy
Tom: 2h (20′ mod, 20′ med, 20′ mad), 1h easy
I plan to cycle in the hills of Mandai.
My cycling plans? Cycling to Paris half marathon departures tomorrow morning ?
Indoor training.
A bit of cycling on the trainer but training for a 10k at the moment, so a long slow run.
Saturday: 3:30 road bike with tempo intervals and some climbing – 91km done and dusted
Sunday: Mtb for 2:30 steady endurance stuff
& short run if I will find my legs.
Cheers
-20c outside in Montreal so it will be a two hours of zwift, ride on !
This afternoon I’ll be doing some Hill Repeats and tomorrow a long steady state tour is planned. All in preparation for the Ötztaler Radmarathon. Therefore I could really use the Stages Powermeter – for well tuned training and for optimal pacing at the “Ötzi”!
I had a trail marathon last weekend and my knees are still a bit sore so likely to jump on the trainer for an hour, then back into cycle training as of next week.
Awesome info and reviews thank DC Rainmaker
Hoping to get a 70k spin in on sunday morning!
Working shifts so it’s going g to be in my garage on the trainer with trainer road, plus the weather is horrible anyway
80K ride with 1500m elevation gain
Trainerroad on Saturday then 4 hrs on the mtb Sunday!
I will ride through my regular track or indoor if the weather is bad.
Zwift metric century on Friday, and then a gcn Zwift workout on Sunday. Group ride on Sunday.
3 hour ride on Saturday with friends.
Did the first ride this season yesterday after a long period of skimountaineering training.
Although its very warm its impossible to ride today because of very strong foehn-winds. Winter will come back tomorrow so we’re waiting for the next possibility to ride our bikes
Due to snow, my weekend plan includes a Zwift race up the Watopia Epic KOM on Saturday and a treadmill run on Sunday.
Just Zwift this weekend – short of time.
Saturday indoor spin tempo 1hr session on watopia
Sunday hoping it doesn’t rain. Round island 130km ard Singapore
Only running this weekend, no cycling :(
Saturday indoor ride on a home trainer.
Sunday long ride (4-5 h) on my road bike
Trainer ride both Saturday and Sunday, over/under intervals + sweet spot…
Hi guys,
Today, Saturday March 4th, I am riding the Zwift ZHR Great Watopian Mountain Goat Road Race as a level D rider and tomorrow Sunday March 5th I am riding the NFBC (“North Florida Bike Club”) 8:30AM World Golf Village SMOOTHIE Ride A/B 53 Mile route. Thanks in advance.
Sat. -Running 15 miles on the Swamo Rabbit trail in preparation for MCM
Sun. -45 minutes swimming laps
1 hour on the elliptical
4hour steady IM pace +20 min run
On Sunday I will tackle a couple of Strava segments to reclaim my KOMs.
Cold here in MD this weekend.
So a 2 hr trainer ride.
Today I had 90min bike @ 85% FTP followed by some short run. Tomorrow I have long slow run.
Focus will be on core-stability training and swimming on saturday (that’s today!).
A four hour easy ride on sunday with the group.
Just repaired my steel racer. Will go out on Sunday for a nice ride. My first outside this year.
At least 4 hours on the turbo, as preparing for a 24 hour charity challenge, cycling the length of Scotland. Some ‘extra’ power wouldn’t go a miss. ;0)
I am going to clean and lube my drivetrain and while it’s soaking I will chance to slicker narrower tires for commuting now that it probably won’t freeze anymore.
Well winter has returned to the northeast (US) again, so with temps in the 20’s I’ll be riding my indoor bike, WITHOUT A POWER METER! Thanks for the chance to ride with one!
Behold, Spring is coming! :)
I’m going to put indoor trainer in the closet and finally head on an outdoor training.
All the best from Poland!
90 minutes on the trainer followed by 40-50 minutes outside
Sufferfest in the garage between running Dad’s taxi service!
Laid up in bed last 2 days so no thoughts of mounting my trusty steed this w/e. Better things for next week I hope!
Today, Saturday I will ride Earn my bacon on the Zwift software.
Tomorrow will be the long run.
Tempo swim, hilly run and gym Sat
Sunday long ride, run off bike and OWS
Mon (as it’s a public holiday) long run, swim squad and afternoon trainer road session.
Sun morning Swim 1000, bike 40k, run 10k
Group rides galore! Getting some base miles in.
Saturday: gymnastics with my son and later my mother’s birthday.
Sunday: preparing to move into another house.
All in all, no time for riding this weekend:-(
Long endurance ride today. Hard brick yesterday
No cycling for me for another few weeks until I get the results of the heart tests I’m waiting on. If I was going out would be 3-4hrs mtb’ing in the Mourne mountains.
Indoor session on the wahoo Kickr while watching Strade Bianchi
Semi-marathon of Paris on Sunday
Enjoying the men’s and ladies Strade Bianche on the TV on Saturday.
A leisurely 50km around the Surrey/Hants/Berks border on Sunday.
No cycling this weekend but a nice long run tomorrow morning.
Just to the mall this weekend shopping with the cargobike
20k arround Bucharest outskirts
Since I am flying solo this weekend with a toddler and no sitter available, it will be TrainerRoad both Saturday and Sunday. I did take Friday off work to squeeze in a nice hard long ride so recovery Saturday and VO2 Max drills start up Sunday. Got to do what you got to do to get time in.
FTP test is in order
Going for an outdoor right in an hour or so, and probably some indoor training tomorrow.
Saturday – rest day, streaching tight glutes and carbo loading ;)
Sunday – XC skiing and FTP workout on Zwift
My Wife just had a baby so my cycling plans for the weekend are cancelled :D
90 minutes of riders choice. Zwift
Taking it easy as national champs next wknd
Trying out Xert online for 60 to 90 minutes today and then back to my favorite ride on the Kickr, NYC Triathlon on CycleOps. (-20C tonight here in Montreal). We should be riding outside in 2 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
Saturday my wife is working the NFL combine all day long so I will not be riding and will take my daughter to an indoor rock climbing facility.
Sunday I will be putting in 50 miles on my road bike on the frozen toes ride. I can’t wait!
I would just take the week end off.
Saturday, buying new car to travel to next seasson races. Sunday 90 kms (mountains maybe) with the training team
Easy recovery-ish weekend, today 3.5 hours with 30 mins z2>z3 rolling flat, tomorrow 3 hours w 40 min z2 steady climbing.
The Strade Bianche on TV and my butt on a trainer .
I’ll be doing a 90 km cross country ski race on Sunday. Still waiting for bare roads in Sweden :-)
A ride out to the seawall in Shanghai followed by coffee with my fellow riders.
Under 15 Male category of the Pemberton Classic, in Pemberton, Western Australia.
Criterium on Saturday afternoon and Road Race on Sunday Morning.
Friday – TrainerRoad Eclipse
Saturday – TrainerRoad Longfellow
Sunday – Toast
Probably just an hour on the flux – too much other things on the weekend
3 hour ride in snow and sub-zero conditions.
60 km ride with intervals on sat
35 km easy ride with gf on sunday
Or succumb to the pain of sprained ankle and rest, rest, rest…
Pouring rain all weekend in Sydney – so giving the trainer some love.
Going to go fat biking in the trails ! Because, Quebec, Canada !
Downtime due to sickness. Recovery this weekend. Riding next weekend to the only 80 metre “mountain” anywhere nearby.
Watched the UPS delivery site for my new group set to arrive.
TrainerRoad workouts both days this weekend. Sunday’s workout is a brick. Good times!
Coffee and a Zwift race
Probably just going to look at my bikes and think I should really get to doing some maintenence on them
40 miles around South Wales taking in the Bwlch & Rhigos climbs. Pacing on effort/HR as I’ve yet to upgrade to a power meter!
Sore calf so just an easy Sunday recovery ride on my 2kW ebike :)
planning on doing a lot of 40K TT workouts on the weekends
I’ll still be riding in the basement since it’s a whopping 29 degrees outside right now.
Probably cruising around watopia ;)
Early morning chaingang today (Saturday) and closed circuit racing tomorrow in an attempt to get some early season points!
Just a easy century ride
10K TT tomorrow!
Saturday- one hour indoor trainer.
Sunday-90km easy.
my plans for the weekend is to unpack my BMC cx01 and to cycle through my very newly adopted cycle friendly country and get used to my new surroundings and scope out new potential cycle routes.
Weather still no good enough (excluding commuting) so for weekend – power trainer.
Hopefully a rain-free outing in the hills north of Glasgow, Scotland!
Getting back on the road bike around the Cooley mountains in Ireland after a few months out through injury
Century of gravel roads.
I’m usually cycle an hour on Sunday to doing marketing. That’s about 8-10km . I’m still not qualify to be like those pro cyclist who can cycle for hours. I prefer to do it as leisure
I just came home from a cold and wet -5°C 106km ride. That feeling when you get home to your warm apartment and empty the fridge from food, is unreal! Now I can take it easy and just relax for the rest of the weekend :)
Ride on onto new volcano kom or ride outside on mtb. Or maybe put two worlds together and replace the trainer with a proper wheel on my roadbike and celebrate spring :)
Newborn at home, so maybe some time on the trainer.
I would LOVE a power meter!
Just done 65 miles….Countdown to Roth…
Plan for long ride on Saturday before off on sunday for supporting my friend at Powerman Malaysian Asia Championship