March Power Meter Giveaway Time!

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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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6,095 Comments

  1. MB

    Hill repeat and long rides early in the mornings. 3 day long weekend here but max temp 40/40/39 celcius on those days.

  2. Johannes

    My cycling plans for the weekend are already over, as I rode to the dentist for a root canal treatment!

  3. Vincent Drozdzyniak

    I will go on a mountainbike ride with my father on saturday.

  4. Laikykis

    I will spin 3 hours on my trainer

  5. Ritchie Robertson

    Still having it band issues. So no cycling this weekend. No running either. Waiting is the hardest part.

  6. Marc steingrand

    Im looking to get some mileage in on the roads from Brazil

  7. StephenA

    Sunday, race first time trial of the seasson (SussexCA Hardriders) and then pack up bits of bike for a “training camp” on Majorca

  8. Aslaimesiu

    I`m going for long road cycling ride with my friends

  9. Seona

    Weekend away so mostly enjoying the relaxation of a holiday with some rides through the wine-dy roads ?

  10. GT

    Long weekend for me, and my wife is heading off interstate on Sunday with kid #2. So if i’m lucky I will be able to go for a ride with kid #1 in the trailer behind my bike, and we can go hit up some parks and maybe have a babychino.

  11. Robrecht Van Meenen

    Saterday I will ride the Dwars door vlaanderen Cyclo.
    Sunday will be a light recovery ride :)

    Looks like a nice weekend!

  12. Kevin Roberts

    I’m guessing this weekend will be spent on the rollers and getting the yard in shape for spring.

  13. Sliperis

    I am planning MTB ride on saturday

  14. Nico Zijnstra

    Saturday will be the last prep club race to get ready for the national crits season in the Netherlands, with a simple recovery ride on Sunday.

  15. Brett Ward

    Actually it’s an off weekend from cycling. I’ve got a couple of long runs planned though due to some travel for work.

  16. Sean

    Skiing this weekend. During the winter, cycling only happens on weekdays

  17. Col

    Hopefully get a hard hour in … and family stuff plus an airshow !

  18. Micheal

    I will be doing more running than cycling, but I will at least have a few recovery rides and maybe some cadence drills on the trainer if there is time.

  19. Tiago

    I will be resting my hurt knee.

  20. Thomas Koetter

    Maybe a quick 40k round

  21. Arno Smit

    Probably just zwift’in because of the weather prediction. Maybe some indoor speed skating.

  22. Simon

    Sydney is pouring. I’ll be on Zwift.

  23. Luke Hardman

    Since this week is a rest week I only have a 4 hour easy ride to get done on Saturday. Stoked! I wish I was partying in a hot tub rather.

  24. Muzikosmy

    Planned long sunday ride for me

  25. Duarte Lopes Figueiredo

    Hopefully the time will get better and I will be able to ride outside, otherwise it will be rollers for me.

  26. Saddlesaur

    Bike firmly planted on trainer for Trainerroad workouts.

  27. Lukas P.

    Watching strade bianche while riding my bike on my trainer.

  28. David Pearson

    I’ve got a 200km Audax on Saturday; it’ll probably be raining for most of it but it allows me to eat pizza afterwards without feeling too guilty.

  29. Ast

    Track bike intervals, then making some beer. No doubt drinking some beer too, to offset the former.

  30. Pete C

    I’ll be getting back on the road bike instead of just the commuter – first time this year and start of a big bike block!

  31. Henrik Forsell

    Nothing! I’ll be resting this weekend. :(

  32. Mark Cockshoot

    I’ll be fettling/cleaning the bike ready for the new communting season

  33. Thomas Cotte

    Going for some cyclocross on Sunday! Enjoiying the not so cold weather in Germany :)

  34. Vincent Busam

    Commute Friday, ride around town Sat/Sun.

  35. Dpeik

    It’s rest week so a short ride and run Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

  36. Tonny Madsen

    It looks like it is going to a very rainy weekend in Copenhagen, Denmark, so the bike will likely stay in the garage, and I will take a long run instead in preparation of Paris Marathon in April.

  37. Steven Yang

    Workout plan with trainerroad saturday, then hopefully get out to mtb on sunday

  38. janis

    Cycling indoors on tacx and watching biathlon on TV..

  39. Dave

    Casual ride with my wife.

  40. Steve Wootton

    A couple of Trainer Road sessions, and a few miles outside with my kids.

  41. Paul Mackenzie

    Cycling will be limited to commuting to parkrun I think. Long run on Sunday

  42. Andy Jelagin

    Chicago weather is calling the shots: trainer session on Saturday, out with the guys for a spin on Sunday

  43. Keren

    Have a marathon on Sunday. So will do a short, easy ride on Zwift tomorrow (Saturday) to get my blood flowing.

  44. JD J

    This week I changed out my tires, did some small maintenance and cleaning on the bike all in hopes to get out for a nice Sunday morning ride. Saturday I am hoping to just take the kids out for a nice easy run.

  45. DT

    My usual 3 hours of pain…

  46. Walter S

    I plan to “cross-train” a bit by running 25km on Saturday, and maybe another 20-30km on Sunday. I might also cycle the 40km from home to check out a 20mi running course for a race in a few weeks. Ok, you got me, I’m actually a runner. But I do cycle occasionally!

  47. Dieter

    MTB riding on sunday. And with the rain over the last week i quess it will be more like taking a mud bath instead of riding :-)

  48. Davide Marcolin

    I ride for 60 km with my Brompton for prepare a Stelvio day

  49. Toine

    Suffering a minor running injury, so going for a 2 and a 4 hour ride over the course of the weekend!

  50. I have every intention of riding in the hills – if it’s gloriously sunny and warm, but as there’s little chance of that I will be running with my wife in the rain.

  51. Erik B

    Indoor 4×4 sessions due to lack of time. Short but effective!

  52. Teixido

    Will be riding from Deventer (NL) to my home. Hope to make 100 km total.

  53. Sascha Burghardt

    sa: recovery and testing run with the new fullsuspension setup
    so: 4h base ride

  54. Mike B.

    Obviously I’m going to spend the entire weekend dreaming of a cookie-dough Stages power meter now.

  55. Jan Knyttl

    Saturday after my morning running race I will take 60km on road bike afternoon. Sunday seems to be a bad weather so I will do bike on trainers.

  56. Alasdair Gardner

    Planning to complete a Zwift workout on Saturday, its going to rain/snow all weekend here so its all about the turbo time!

  57. Adi Gerblich

    600K starting in Arkedia Florida. Need to finish in 40hrs

  58. Neal Welland

    Preparing for the Peak Epic in early June – the hills beckon.

  59. Francis Paulin

    I’ll be riding the new Volcano climb on Zwift :)

  60. Koen

    Pool training on saturday morning, maybe a bike ride afterwards to train for a team time trial, and on sunday my first 10km running race.

  61. Arno van der Loop

    75 km on Sunday , to recover from the trailrun on saturday.

  62. Long ride Sunday in the nice Spring weather. Thanks.

  63. Graham Morrison

    I’ll just be riding round in circles.

  64. Ryan Sangill

    I’ll be running approximately 20 miles over the weekend while hoping the weather is about to take a turn for the better.

  65. Jens P

    recovering from crash and rebuilding the bike to hit it hard on monday!

  66. JP Bezuidenhout

    I have finally recovered from the flu, so looking forward to spending some time indoors on Zwift this weekend to assess my (decrease in) fitness…

  67. Ryan

    Short hour long ride around Amstel River in Amsterdam

  68. Max

    I will be doing a 20 km ride on studded tires in the cold Canadian spring.

  69. Jorge Monteiro

    My cycling plans for the Weekend are to train my HR with some series session on Saturday.
    Sunday I plan to climb one of the hardest climbs in Lisbon – Portugal

  70. Norman Bungay

    Living in an area that is still experiencing winter weather, my cycle plans are a couple of hours of snowy fat bike riding on Sunday, just for fun.

  71. John Woodard

    This weekend, unfortunately, between kids’ soccer games and home renovation, I MIGHT get a 30 minute session on the dumb trainer (can’t afford the smart ones). If I do, I plan on working on low-cadence hill climbing to prepare for the Garret County Gran Fondo (the hills there are too steep for high cadence climbing).

  72. Craig McMillan

    Fat biking in the last of the snow for the year (then back to the trainer)

  73. Mark Lansdown

    I have been sponsored by a charity to teach in Cape Town University for two weeks. Luckily I brought a bike. This weekend I will ride with a local doctor along the coast of Cape town in preparation for next weekends Cape Tour. No body told me he was an ex pro cyclist with a local team until yesterday! I expect to get my legs ripped off but at least I have a week to recover before the biggest mass participation cycle event in the world.

  74. Goncalo

    First grandfondo on sight, so training hard. A new power meter would be handy.

  75. wiboc

    Saturday the first organised bicycle tour. 70k. In the afternoon I’ll watch strade Bianche.
    Sunday two hour ride before visiting my mother in the elderly home

  76. It’s going to be sub freezing again this weekend. Hour or 2 on the trainer for me.

  77. Dimitrios Athanasiadis

    Probably 60 miles route on Sunday if the weather will be mild in Scotland

  78. Tom

    Zwifting

  79. Mark

    I pulled my calf bad, so I’m not cycling or running anywhere for a while!

  80. Ben Ryan

    Snow has melted and I may go outside on Saturday although I will miss Zwift and may just stay indoors.

  81. Chris Ehlers

    Netflix and Trainer riding. Probably a 2 to 3 hour trainer session very early on Saturday morning. Then a quick hour trainer ride on Sunday before a trail run.

  82. Robinson Milani

    Saturday will be “hill climbing day”!

  83. Mario Lira Junior

    Just adding some mileage at very low speeds… likely about 50 km on Sunday at somewhere around 20 kph if I’m lucky

  84. Ricardo Gonçalves

    I will do some training, arround 80 km. I have a race soon :)

  85. Dave

    Swim meet all weekend, no bike?

  86. Simon

    FTP test tonight, MTB on local trails and paths on Sunday

  87. jCO2

    This WE I’ll ride saturday .. just 2h in recovery mode.

  88. peter selis

    If weather goes bad, trying to get some hours on the trainer at some point this weekend.

  89. Brian MC

    Racing at Oulton park Duathlon

  90. Stephen Reid

    Coffee ride, tapering for an autumn road race.

  91. John Horncastle

    I’m covering a dualthlon in preparation for a race in a couple of weeks.

    and I may just have a beer afterwards…

  92. Probably just a short 20 mile ride on Sunday.

  93. Zim

    Hopefully a long ride in between showers but considering the forecast I could be spending time on the trainer or on the cyclocross bike (for which I don’t have a power meter yet!!)

  94. Sam J

    AS it’s planned to be -8, I will be Zwifting on Saturday.

  95. mike meiers

    Ill be mountain biking Lss Llajas canyon road in Simi Valley, CA both Saturday and Sunday. All welcome to join in!

  96. Michele

    Plan says 4.5h ride at different (but tough) intensities…I hope I’ll manage…

  97. E. Sev

    Commuting back home with my bicylce later the day. Go for a 10K run and skiing with the family. That’s it.

  98. Koly B

    I will be all nerves on the weekend, since my wife is about to give birth to our daughter. No cycling this weekend. :)

  99. Scott Simmons

    Gravel, gravel, gravel!!!

  100. Euan Rennie

    I will be going for an easy spin on Saturday before running a half marathon on Sunday