Show us your Turbo training torture chamber!

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Its getting to that time of year again, when bad weather or just shorter days can put us onto the trainer.

Just sorting out my latest training area at the moment and wanting inspiration.

Come on, show us where you suffer!

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Missus wont have it in the house - too noisy! Banished to the garage, which is probably the best place as at least its fairly cold (including the fan even in the grip of winter).

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neenaw said:

Here's mine. Basically a rather cold, damp garage with a turbo, some rollers, a laptop and an iPod to keep me going.
Needless to say I don't particularly like spending time in there on the turbo or rollers but it's handy for when I can only fit an hour in before or after work.



On a side note, I did my first TrainerRoad session since last winter this morning. I've decided that doing the 8 minute test without any breakfast in me is not a good idea

Thats the thing, the better the environment, the more I'll enjoy the training. I could have thrown my trainer up in amongst all of the st in my garage, but I wouldn't want to go in there. I'm currently in the middle of painting the walls, floor and boarding the ceiling out before putting some better lighting in.

I've got a laptop, but I'm tempted to find someone throwing out a really large old CRT TV. Theyre worth nowt, so might as well make the most of it!

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I bought one about 5 years ago, to come back from an injury and whilst I used it to rehabilitate, I didnt enjoy it.
Sitting on there listening to music staring at my garage wall was pretty soul destroying purely because I needed t
Some visual stimulation to go with it. I then bought a good trainer a couple of years back and I bought DVDs to train with. Its made the world of difference, along with analysing my performance and having some kind of structured training plan. I just need to get back into it all now.

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After starting the thread, here's what it turned out like.

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IroningMan said:

Yikes - do you live on the San Andreas Fault?

Lol, it encourages me to pedal faster in fear of slipping into it.

I'm not sure whats happened, its an old detached garage and will likely be pulled down in a few years to accommodate an extension. Its cracked from a manhole cover to the end of the concrete so probably some movement has cracked it.

Not bad for about £80 worth of materials to the actual garage, plus the extra bits of storage

It started like this in June