Where I live, biking outdoors is more or less impossible from November through March. A few years ago I therefore suggested to my wife that a bike trainer would be a brilliant idea for a Christmas present. I was overjoyed when I finally got to unwrap the present and found a shiny, new trainer. OK, maybe I helped her a little bit choosing the one I wanted, but I was still very glad.
I immediately set the thing up in the living room. My idea had always been that we could have cozy evenings together in front of the TV while I did my biking, she did her knitting and the kids slept in their rooms. That was my dream. In reality the trainer turned out to be so noisy that it drove my wife nuts, kept the kids awake and made our neighbors downstairs think there was a poltergeist in the building. To cut a long story short I was ordered to do my biking in the storage room "and keep the door shut, sweetie!"
Despite this minor setback, I used the trainer a lot that winter. The next winter, however, I used it a little bit less, and the third winter I used it perhaps once every two or three weeks. This current winter I set the trainer up in November as usual, but so far I have only logged two sessions on it. And that even though I now have a small TV set I can watch while spinning. There is just something so overwhelmingly boring about biking without going anywhere, that I can't bring myself to do it. For me, this comes a close second to treadmill running in the competition for the least enjoyable way of training.
But as of today there will be no mercy. I have a run-bike-run duathlon coming up in about two months and if I want to cross the finish line before the timekeepers pack up and go home to sleep, I need to force myself to practice on the trainer. Someone told me that the most difficult and boring training is probably the one I'm in the most need for. So now I'll have to learn to think of the trainer as my friend. I loved it when I first got it, and hopefully I can love it again now.
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