3hours and 20 minutes is the longest I've done on rollers, it gets miserable beyond the 2.5hr mark for me

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Longest is 4 hours. Standard is two hours. Time flies by if I'm watching a movie. Just recently noticed that a computer keyboard rests nicely on the handlebars which affords me all new levels of distraction from the trainer. The audio feature on the bike computer helps keep me within the target HR range.

Made it through all three this winter... twice. All on the fluid 2 (1 movie each time) Max time was around 3 hours. I don't have enough skill, yet, to watch anything on the TV while on the rollers.

Relatively new to my trainer (only ~2months worth), but I average 50min to 1hr. I've found splitting the workout into goals really helps, warmup time, some intervals, some one legged drills, maybe some high cadence work. I'm rarely looking at timing a segment for more than an 8min effort typically 2-3min. A few things help keep this focused/interesting to me - KK trainer that allows me to guesstimate watts, Edge 305 with rear wheel speed (GPS off, duh), cadence and HRM. Just spinnning over time without trying to monitor effort would likely drive me nuts.

longest 1.5hrs

Other than doing intervals, I'd rather ride in the rain. In fact I'm going to head out shortly.

Longest so far this year has been 2.5 hours, ever 3hr.
Avg. time is 90 minutes. Today 30 min. recovery.

1 hour is pretty standard for me. A movie or two on the weekends if it is slick out. Last movie was Breaking Away (filmed in my home town of B-town Indiana).

I got a few Spinervals for x-mas and can't take more than 20 minutes of that crap. I would rather watch the news.

45 minutes and I call it good on my trainer. I am thinking of combining my Xbox time with being on the trainer. I might need aerobars though....

Normal time for me on rollers is 2 hours. Trainer is for intervals and race warmups only and the longest there is an hour and change.

For the long roller rides, a netflix subscription keeps me sane. On the trainer, I use an iPod coupled with something/anything on TV; keep the ears and eyes separately occupied to take the mind off the suffering.

This.

But don't you need to pay attention to the clock when doing your intervals?
That's the part that absolutely kills me - I hate the clock when doing intervals! Not so much for longer intervals, but the shorter 3-5 minute ones I keep looking up to check my time, always disapointed thinking I'm further into my interval than I actually have :mad:

Try commercial intervals.

Pick a show on a channel on TV that has lots of commercials, and each time the commercials come on, ride as hard as you can through to the end of the commercial, then slow down and ride easy through the show.

The longest I've done this year is 2h20m. The longest I've done ever was 3h30m. This is trainer time. I don't know how people are able to do rollers for longer than an hour... not being able to stand up (which could be just my problem) means too much pressure on a key area for too long, which is a similar misery to long rides on the fixed gear.

Longest is 3h5m avg around an hour.

I can't stand the noise after a half hour. My house is slightly elevated with wooden floors that just amplifies the sound.

Put carpet or some sort of mat under the trainer. You can pick up carpet samples or things like that, or those thin blue foam sleeping/camping mats might work as well.

An hour is the most I've ever endured. I'd rather be out in cold, wind and rain (sometimes even snow) than sitting on a trainer.

However, I'd better get used to it. Since I'm just starting full-time physio after my misfortune I'll be spending a lot of time on the pretend bike. So far, I'm managing (under direction of the physio) 10 minutes at a stretch. It feels like heaven, despite the pain!

My bike on the trainer on the hardwood living room floor (as opposed to the one I'm using at the physio) is sitting on inexpensive 2' X 2' rubber floor tiles. Three of them is enough for the average bike.

When I was recovering from burning my foot to the bone back in 2001, as soon as I could stuff my foot into a slipper, I got on my trainer. I could only manage 5 minutes at a time at first, but gradually started building up from there. Even though 5 minutes was painful in the beginning ... it felt great to be on a bicycle again!!

I've done 2.5 hours a number of times. 1hr is pretty easy to do if I have something interesting on the TV and I do intervals.

I cover the cockpit and cyclo-computer/ptap with a towel (so I don't sweat over everything), so I have to move the towel to see the clock. Keeps me from checking it too often. I mostly do longer intervals though (20 minute), so I don't have a huge problem. But even with shorter intervals, I think the trick is to cover the clock or something. I generally don't have a huge problem with this until the last 15 minutes of a 2 hour roller ride.

Machka has the right idea. You can use "landmarks" to keep time instead of a clock. Commercials are always about 30s-1min long. Songs on the iPod in this day of musical conformity are always 3:30 to 4:30 min long. The gaps between commercials on a television program are about 10-15 minutes long while the commercial breaks are something like 3-5 minutes in length. Etc.

I definitely stand up on the rollers! No numb-nuts for me! Every 5 minutes or so.

The key to standing on rollers is to do it slowly and smoothly so you don't kick your bike back (both standing up and sitting back down). Also, use a plum-bob to make sure your front roller is as close to directly under your front axle as possible without being behind it. If it's significantly in front of your axle, you've effectively shortened the trail on your bike so much as to make it hard to control when doing anything but being on the bar tops, hands next to the stem.

I'm the same - my intervals are normally either 2min, 5min or 8min slogs. I'm using a kurt kinetic with my Garmin rear wheel speed sensor, so if I want to keep the intensity I need I have to make sure my speed doesn't drop while keeping an eye on the lap counter. Painful, but worthwhile. I do need my iPod though - something loud/fast seems to help.

I can imagine sitting there for longer periods just spinning away without pushing hard, but it just doesn't hold any appeal for me.