Originally Posted by Carbonfiberboy

I don't understand why a team would want to ride a tandem on the trainer. Winter is a perfect time to ride singles on trainers or rollers. I ride my rollers while my wife rides her trainer, but it would be even better if we both rode rollers. Winter is a great time for each team member to work on their individual pedaling technique, VT1, and various intervals.

We try to do:
Sunday we do a group ride on our tandem every week unless it's icy, maybe 3 hours saddle time in winter. We ride hard.
Monday we snowshoe or hike or similar depending on weather, probably 1-2 hours.
Tuesday we ride inside for 30-60 minutes and then lift at the gym for ~an hour, upper body.
Wednesday my wife has an hour dressage lesson while I do an hour on the rollers.
Thursday we repeat Tuesday with legs and back at the gym.
Friday we usually do 1/2 hour on the Stepmill at the gym.
Saturday off to rest for the Sunday ride.
If the snow is decent, I might scrap the bike and gym one day and go skiing, but my wife will usually do her workout on her own.

That's probably 8 hours on a good week. We don't always get everything done. Life happens.

The object of our winter training is to stay fairly fit, put in a little base time, gain some muscle, lose some fat. When it's time to pick up the pace in February, we're ready.

We know a number of people who say, "Oh, we'll come out and ride with you in the spring when the weather's better." The problem with that is that by the time the weather turns better, the group is upping the mileage and pace and those who haven't ridden with us all winter are off the back and aren't having any fun. We do the group ride religiously because that pressure is what forces us to train during the week. If we don't, we can't keep up.