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. Thomas

    I’ll be doing a tour over all climbs on Watopia while watching the pros get wet on Strade Bianchi.

  2. Steve

    HM for me this Saturday morning, so the afternoon will probably involve a leisurely recovery ride :)

  3. Anton Kasatkin

    Zwift, here I come :)

  4. Jim McQuaide

    We’re back to winter weather here in the Northeast, so I’ll be Zwifting all weekend.

  5. K van Ramshorst

    Going to give my new wheelset a spin (if the rains stays out).

  6. Mehul

    I plan to ride with the guys on Sunday to get our obligatory coffee and bagel or cookie. Saturday will be on the Wahoo kickr paired with Trainer Road unless a good deal of the snow melts by then.

  7. I will be biking somewhere around the Twin Cities due to extremely warm weather for early March in Minnesota

  8. Michel

    As the spring classics have started, I will join organized tour, 105k with lots of classic cobbles in Flanders.

  9. Jason Newville

    Some simple spinning on the trainer since I am recovering from knee surgery.

  10. jon

    Trainer, trainer. I’m not hard enough for 17 degrees F.

  11. Fr0sty

    I have a shitty little tri on Sunday – 400m swim, 10km ride and 4km run. Should be fun though.

  12. Doug Harrison

    Hopefully two great rides in 80 degree weather (and sun) after being out of town all week. Just glad to get back on the bike this weekend.

  13. David Telford

    Moving old bikes into new shed and wife’s birthday dinner.

  14. Florian Lungu

    My weekend plans are for a solo workout Saturday and a team ride Sunday.

  15. Karim

    Still very cold so I will hit the trainer both Saturday and Sunday, big fan of sufferfest. Need to improve FTP.

  16. Bart

    I will be riding outside of London, probably towards Essex.

  17. Stephen Cooper

    Man, what a weekend it’ll be! First, it’s a 30km round trip work commute with Schwalbe studded tires, then a 2hr TrainerRoad session in Saturday on the trainer. If the family gets its way there might well be some hot ski action too!

  18. Matt

    sadly have to take the weekend off

  19. Tim Corso

    45 Miles on Watopia if the weather turns out as forcast

  20. Chris Houghton

    I’m hoping to get outside to ride but since I’m in Seattle that’s probably going to be rained out which means a 25 mile ride on Zwift.

  21. Minh H

    A 90 min ‘date night’ with my trainer as I continue my TR training plan.

  22. Joshua Rotstein

    It is still cold here in Canada. So I’ll be joining a group ride on zwift and be sweating it up in the basement.

  23. Erik L.

    I’ll be hiding from the snow and ride Zwift instead :)

  24. Daniel Taylor

    Long ride on Sunday it’s the last chance I’ll get for a couple of weeks due to travel plans

    Dan

  25. Interminable long rides, punctuated by working the parking lot at the mtbnj.com short track race.

  26. James

    Aiming to finish TrainerRoad’s 8DC 2015 stage race (2 left to go).

  27. I’m taking off work early today to go on a 37 miler – the longest so far this year.

  28. Blair Oliver

    Hill repeats before, during, and after my son’s soccer tournament. What else?

  29. Stephan Verdeyen

    Will hop on the trainer for a spin this morning, but am out of town the rest of the weekend. Only dreaming about cycling…

  30. Matt

    A couple of 1 hr FTP boosting trainer sessions and a med-long ride outside if the weather holds.

  31. Alan Ellsworth

    Watching my daughter swim in PIAA district meet. Hope to find a couple hours in the basement trainer dungeon.

  32. Sean Price

    The trails, weather permitting

  33. Dom

    Exploring the lower Pyrenees east of Barcelona this weekend!

  34. Chris_C

    Likely to squeeze in some time on Zwift as I will be away from home till Sunday pm

  35. Josh S

    Over the weekend- fixing up my old mountain bike so that I can begin coaching our new school cycling club. Then back to some Zwift as it’s supposed to reach a high of 30 F here in New England.

  36. Steve

    Hot tub!!!!

  37. Luis R De Freitas

    zwift indoors cause way too cold outside

  38. Josh

    A light cross training on my Magnus.

  39. Andrew

    Checking out a new route through the national parkland with the girl!

  40. Mike

    0 cycling. Catching a plane from US to France for some R&R

  41. MikeD

    I’ll be biking indoors on my trainer.

  42. Peter V.

    When I see the weather forecast…nope, no cycling this weekend, or it must be indoors.
    Still don’t have a power meter. Can use one and I want one.
    greetz

  43. Tom

    Well, if the temps stay in the low 20s here as predicted, may have to settle for some skate skiing!

  44. Niklas Werner

    I will be flying out to Mallorca (Spain) on Saturday for a bike camp!! Would love to see a package from Clever Training when coming back ;)

  45. Phil H

    Ride my velotron

  46. Turn The Damn Cranks

    Still fighting knee issues, so likely looking longingly at my bike. :(

  47. Marcio Elio Manique Junior

    This weekend is still cold here, I will try to ride about 20 miles on Sunday if the weather permits.

  48. Tom W

    What a weekend coming up, 3 days with temps in the late 30’s, early 40c’s. Still, great to ride, group ride sat, hills on Sunday, and a local smash fest called ‘old papa’s on Sunday.

  49. Rick

    Recovery ride on the trainer Sunday because it’s 6 friggin’ degrees here again!

  50. Coedy

    Probably not much cycling, but I am doing my first marathon on Sunday. Maybe a little spin afterwards to flush out the legs.

  51. Luke

    Sprained my MCL a couple of weeks ago, so I’ll be putting in a out 2 light hours on the trainer as part of rehab :(

  52. Rasmus Jensen

    Hi.

    My plan for the weekend is to have a smooth bike ride with the goal of passing through at least 20 citys/villages (small or big it does not matter :) )

  53. Erik

    A quick trainer ride before driving to CT Saturday morning.

  54. Mike 9

    I’m loving the warming weather, I knocked out a mid week 50 miler this week, looking forward to at least the same for Saturday.

  55. Joe H

    Planning weekend for my first french diagonal. Menton-Brest

  56. Joe

    Officiating a high school basketball state final this weekend…but hoping to get on the trainer for a while as well!

  57. Jason Henley

    Friday working till 3pm (UK time) from starting at 6am. Once home the. An hour or so on Zwift followed by a date night with the Wife.

    Saturday 100k ride with a ride up King Alfreds Tower in Somerset followed by a cider or two.

    Sunday if the date night went well then another ride. If not then who knows.

  58. Mike Barro

    MTB ing

  59. Emily

    It’s a gym weekend for me as it’s chilly out, then maybe some zwift.

  60. Jonathan

    This weekend will be a little colder than the previous here in Massachusetts so I’ll be keeping it short, probably just a few miles trying out the freezing cold trails of Weston.

  61. Andrew Clarke

    We finally have snow on the ground today. Not enough to x-country ski, too much to ride my road bike. So I guess I’ll be hitting the rollers.

  62. Steven K.

    Well, we have another cold weekend ahead of us here in the North Eastern US with temps just above freezing. So some more indoor training for me.

  63. Martin Steen Mortensen

    I will try to find the time to get my bike ready for the road after a long winter break, maybe take it for a 40-50k spin.

  64. Justin

    Building up a new bike! So probably about 10 minutes of test riding. If I’m lucky….

  65. Matt Evans

    My cycling plan for the weekend is to replace a tubular tyre (having only glued tubulars once before myself..) and if successful finally get on my Kinetic trainer with Trainerroad

  66. benichoux

    Zwift ride because of bad weather and babies at home.

  67. Joel

    Just an easy 20 miler.

  68. Brett Bornhoft

    Trainer ride on Saturday, hopefully followed by a long sunny ride (~40 miles) Sunday.

  69. Andrew Stone

    A perfect weekend for two 40 mile rides!

  70. Nathan Fortner

    Trip to Alabama for 5 days of riding, escaping the remain sure to be mandatory trainer days in Cincinnati. Will cover about 425 miles, 25,000 feet of climbing, with a great group of friends.
    Ride on!

  71. Holly

    I will be doing ~2hr aerobic training ride on Saturday and a post-run 30min recovery ride on Sunday.

  72. Reuben

    Some chilly miles out in the Potomac/poolesville,MD area….

  73. Chris L

    Winter is back in New England, so some trainer time for me.

  74. Michael Harman

    Tomorrow’s weather here is going to be amazing (high 70-ish) so I’m planning on a longer ride, maybe 40-50 miles, see if my dad wants to join me. And then on Sunday my wife and I will be doing our 2 Big Bridges route (~30 miles, crosses two major bridges over the Missouri river). She wants to make that kind of a Sunday ritual for us, and it’s a nice ride so I have no objections.

  75. SebP

    I’ll be cycling in the hills near Canal du Midi

  76. Tony

    Its gonna be a little chilly here this weekend, so if any cycling happens it’ll be on the trainer or a spin class.

  77. Terry T

    Will be doing ~60 minutes inside Saturday and hoping to get out on my mtb Sunday. Thanks!

  78. Paddy McGuire

    It’s raining here in the Pac NW, so I will be on my trail bike riding in the mud.

  79. Noby Itakura

    I rebuilt my 2009 Cervelo S1 and I’m taking it for a spin early saturday morning. After that, it’s all about my 2 year old boy. We have swim class and then the boys get to hang out afterwards.

  80. Andre

    Cycling around Vista Chinesa & Mesa do Imperador (part of the Rio Olympic course)

  81. Daniel A

    This weekend, I will be doing a 100mi ride that encompasses northwest Louisiana as well as East Texas!

  82. Jonathan

    Maybe an hour or two on the trainer.

  83. Michael Love

    Riding up Zwift Volcano.

  84. Dani Pfulg

    Currently no cycling plans for the weekend. There is still some snow left. Will go skiing. ;-)

  85. Ugo

    My plan for cycling this week-end will be a short ride saturday and a longer one on sunday if the weather is sufficiently nice in Paris.

  86. Richard Owen

    FTP test probably

  87. Rich W

    Going to check out the 3 new Sufferfest videos..

  88. Stephen G

    No biking, but this is the last weekend before the Tacoma St. Paddy’s Day Half Marathon, so it’ll be a short(er) run, probably in the wind and rain (thank you PacNorWest). And thanks to Clever Training and Ray for finally letting me win a DCR Give-a-way!

  89. Brandon Moody

    Try to get in a couple outside rides if the weather cooperates

  90. Matt

    Trainer ride Sunday ride… go me!

  91. Indoor trainer ride with Trainer Road, and if the family is healthy enough and the weather cooperates, a trail run with friends.

  92. Matthew Neugebauer

    Sadly, just indoor trainer time for me – but still happy to be healthy enough to do it!

  93. Chris M

    Getting out on the MTB this weekend.

  94. Michael Vickers

    I’ll be riding a hilly 50-60 miles near Oceanside, CA.

  95. Bibalou

    rest rest rest

  96. Gage

    Catching up on the training I’ve been neglecting!

  97. Duane Gran

    Weather will be a little on the cold side here in Virginia this weekend so I’m likely riding the indoor trainer.

  98. Neil G

    No time to ride, but hopefully a long (slow) run.

  99. Sylvester Jakubowski

    Trainerroad Sustained power build Week 3 Mid Volume, both weekend rides!

  100. Éric Giroux

    A slow, long distance run. No cycling: plenty of snow on the ground and -12C…