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The third partner of TrainerRoad is cycling coach Chad Timmerman.  He’s a level II cycling coach (soon to be level I), 3x CompuTrainer studio owner and great cyclist.  He clocked a 51:28.7 40k TT at 37 years old. I don’t think that’s even his best time. 90% of the workouts on TrainerRoad including our base/build…

We’ve just added three new workouts to the feed.  They were suggested by users at http://support.trainerroad.com/forums/20356951-suggest-a-workout Eichorn This is a classic.  2×20 minutes with 5 minutes rest between intervals.  We give you a little warm up to wake up the legs then you get to do the work.  The first interval is at 89% FTP.  The…

This is the first post in a series where we’ll start to look closer at the power curves of certain trainers. Today, we’re going to check out the Kurt Kinetic fluid trainers. There’s four models that I know of. Kurt Kinetic Road Machine (blue – 3lbs fly wheel – not manufactured anymore) Kurt Kinetic Road…

This is probably news that some of you don’t want to hear, but we are close to leaving beta. We’ll send out an e-mail with advanced notice about pricing and when we’ll shut down free access. Don’t worry, it’s not that bad. You can ride TrainerRoad for 15-20 years before you spend the same amount…

CycleOps published power curves for the CycleOps SuperMagneto Pro Trainer in there user manual so I went ahead and added it as a supported trainer for VirtualPower with the (beta) status until we know more about how consistent and accurate it is. I don’t have this trainer and I haven’t done any testing with it. I’m…