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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Probably won’t get on the bike this weekend, the weather forecast is snow. I cannot wait for spring to get here… or at least above icy temperatures and no snow.
My wife and two friends are doing a 40ish mile road bike ride on Sunday morning here in Savannah, GA. The weather will be great (60ish Fahrenheit) and they just laid down some. Ew stretches of pavement :)
Training sunday for the Amstel Gold Race 16-4-2017. ?
Test ride of a new aero helmet and disc cover for Ironman 70.3 Oceanside in a couple weeks. Yeah I know, probably a little late for gear adjustments, but the wife finally gave in.
Taking it easy with recovery spins, getting ready for the annual cycling trip to Spain with the lads!
Too damn cold and windy where I am. Off for a swim. If I get on a bike, it will be the fatty.
Run Saturday after work, indoor bike outdoor run Sunday.
90km Nordic ski race on sunday, so next time on the bike will be a recoveryride later in the week:-)
I have to work. Booooo
Had to travel this weekend for a family event so I will be dreaming of warmer weather and my bike.
Saturday: 100km on bike
Sunday: 20km on foot :)
Local spin. Remodeling bathroom so too busy for a long ride
Saturday-chain gang with local Tri club.
Sunday-social ride with local road club.
Best of both worlds, get to cycle with buddies and new friends twice on the w/e
Tempo intervals on the trainer.
Have been riding with my club today, need more practise, because all my attacks were countered with ease, still work in progress
Skipped my long ride this morning because I was up all night throwing up :(
It’s minus 20 here for the first w-e of March. Either a zwift race or a fat bike ride with a racing mindset. Just the normal prep for July blues.
Sunday I will ride my MTB for about 2-3 hours in the hilly forests near my hometown :)
Coffee ride with the club Saturday morning, and a ride with the family Monday (on account of it being a public / bank holiday)
Zwift training sessions
Planning to ride to my closest trail and hopefully do a loop or two on Saturday. if its too muddy I’ll resort to some dirt roads. Maybe a road bike ride on Sunday
Saturday short spin and Sunday I’ll try 100km…btw I really NEED power meter so badly aaaassa :)
I put in 12.5 mi trail running this morning (including a couple falls), so tomorrow on Sunday I’ll hopefully be in good enough shape for a recovery run in the morning and a family bike ride later in the afternoon.
While sailing on a Merchant Marine vessel for months at a time, I plan on using the only bike we’ve at hand… the old recumbent one… to put in some miles. Hopefully I’ll be able to gauge my power *hint hint* once home again.
Didn’t quite plan in this way but, started my ride, got about 3 miles in, had a part on my mudguard snap, detour to cycle shop, quick repair, back out on the road again, sun comes out. Great end to a dodgy start!
Cold weather means back on the MTB. See you in second spring road bike.
Planning year first ride. Perfect beginning :)
Family ride in town, Spin indoors on saturday, Longride outdoors on sunday.
I’ll be doing my last ride for a while. I’ve got a 3 hour tempo ride on my trainer that I’m using as a cross-training session before starting Navy Dive School on Monday morning for the next 6 months. A power meter would go a long way into helping me get back into racing shape when I can get back on my bike.
I’ll be doing some longer set spot work on the trainer. Boooooo!, but it’s time to get race ready.
I’m unpacking my TT bike. My Felt B14 has been in a box since our move to the USA. So time to unbox and get it ready for riding :)
Can’t train as I’ve torn my calf so I’m catching up on studying and supporting my partner when she does a 20 mile running race tomorrow and also walking our dogs. Only used power in a wattbike and can’t afford for my race bike. Good luck all
Wish I could be out there cycling right now, still in rehab from a lower back injury, but counting down every minute until I can be cleared to ride again (hopefully in time to do an Olympic distance tri this summer)
With lots of rain forecasted for the weekend I will be staying in doors on the trainer.
Laying low this weekend due to back injury but will be spending some time cleaning my rig.
Raining watt
Possibly a zwift race on sunday if the weather is nasty. Roller skiing a few hours today.
Doing 45km of Ironman Frankfurt on a Bkool Trainer. Tomorrow doing the Floirda 70,3 to start tuning in for my race.
just a ride on zwift
A Nice batch of Hill repeats om the mountainbike.
Doing some indoor workouts and probably a mountain bike ride with the girl.
2 hours on the Wattbike on Sunday. Picking up new bike at the end of the month.
This weekend I am cycling for 1.5 hours at steady endurance effort followed by a 45 minute endurance run.
Well since it is winter in western Canada, I’m stuck riding inside on the trainer. Intervals here I come!!!
Too cold today, maybe 40 miles tomorrow
25 degrees Celsius.. gorgeous day.. quality time with the family..
It’s too cold here. Trainer session for me.
Already did 75km on Friday, hopefully some endurance training on Sunday for this years Maratona dles Dolomites :)
2h turbo on Saturday – zwift hopefully will see new volcano circuit:) then 2h outside ride on Sunday in our lovely Irish weather!
Cycling on my wahoo trainer Indoor training for 90mins, on both days this weekend
Sunday plan. Grab the neighbor, Ride to the Pentagon, into D.C. then Georgetown, stop for coffee and beignets and roll home.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
MTB ride without any plan. Just for fun
Cycling to a XC running race
Rainy weekend – 5hrs on the trainer watching WTS races
Just a short 60 min spin on a trainer to loosen my legs up from my marathon.
Today did interval training with Cycle group ; Tomorrow hopefully recovery ride and monday spinning class :-)
I’m really hoping it’s nice enough tomorrow to pull the girls in the Burley.
Did 90 minutes on the trainer. Still cold outside in northern Germany.
Thanks for the giveaway, the plan is 80k in sunday following the route tomthe cost, safe riding to everyone
My triathlon club has a long bike ride today (Saturday) and we’ll be riding lots and lots of hills.
My favorite bike ride is highway 1 in my area where we ride along the Pacific Ocean. So beautiful!
round the island during the weekend .
Hej there,
well plans are as follows:
Saturday:
Recovery / nice weather ride with my beautiful wife (our first ride together this year) done and dusted
link to strava.com
Sunday:
Our wedding anniversary. Maybe some short hard threshold efforts if there will be some time for it. if not than rest day / celebration day :D For sure I need to do some bicycle maintenance of the commuter and clean the roadies.
Evening non-cycling activity gonna be a nice dinner at our local Indian vegetarian restaurant.
Have a nice weekend! :)
No weekend ride for me, need to get better at swimming so it will be only endless laps for me!
Planned the season-opening ride with the club, instead of that i’m in bed with the flu.
Racing in a triathlon in Stanford followed by a nice recovery ride in the Santa Monica mountains to my favorite cafe!
2hr easy spin today, 1hr 2/1 intervals with 5mi run off the bike tomorrow.
Gonna try to get in an hour or two on Zwift before meeting my parents for brunch.
2 hours on the trainer!
Skiing today and Xterra duathlon tomorrow – hoping to hit the road soon ?
Easy start on Friday with a 1.5h mountainbike ride, today nothing because I am working on my new home and tomorrow will be the same day as today.
Long fat bike rides on both Saturday and Sunday. How long depends on how much new snow.
None. Recovery week so got all my riding in during the work week.
The East coast is frozen. I’ll be riding the indoor trainer and watching reruns of The West Wing on Netflix.
I am riding demo bikes today at my local trail, then racing a XC race tomorrow morning.
Gravel riding.
60 miles along the CA-1
I’ll probably hit the trainer for couple of easy rides. Gotta 5k/10k double to do in Sunday.
-Guillermo
In Sweden it’s +2 degrees and raining! So it is indoor cycling on the stationary bike today. 10min, 15min and 20min at 95% of FTP
I did already 25 km ride today. I plan another easy one tomorrow for slow start of the season :).
Duathlin this morning rest day tomorrow #busted
Plan is for 100km with about 1500m climbing. Training for 200km ride in June with near 3000m climbs. Getting there??
Trying to regain fitness after illness, even a steady 30miles has felt like hard work.
Joining a friend to help her get in her 80 mile training ride for IMTX race in April.
This weekend it’s trainer time. The working set will be Fast Cadence intervals. It’s time to get those callouses back!
Mattix
Heading out to start training my cycling team right now. Huntsman Hometown Heroes!
Short easy recovery ride Sunday after running Way Too Cool 50k Saturday.
Planning on doing some Zwift workouts this weekend as the weather is awful here in the UK.
Walk around New Orleans, listen to music, eat too much, sleep too little.
Plan on riding with a small group of friends about 45 miles through some rolling hills with a couple climbs locally.
Just recovering from a full week of winter bike commuting..
No cycling this weekend! I’ve been skiing at Taos ski valley in New Mexico all weekend. Can I count this as high altitude training since I’m from Florida??
Off Weekend, partying in Arizona watching Spring Training.
trainerroad and a tacx trainer for some exciting base training.
Endurance rides along the Olympic route.
Killing some of my Hulu backlog on the trainer because it’s frigid outside.
Hoping trail conditions are good enough to get out or it’s back to stationary bike for me
Go for a nice ride around the Swan River here in Perth, WA
I’ll be doing roughly 1 hour on trainer today and hoping to get in 2-3 ON Sunday!
Trainerroad session on Saturday then a rest on Sunday, hopefully!
Road biking Sat & Sunday. Preparing for weeklong ride in July.