the FACILITY :)

Every racer has that place where they can train in a Rocky style to try and achieve the peak of physical fitness....

This is mine...

To the untrained eye this may look like a bike on a static trainer surrounded by a selection of garden tools and general household items... but this is in the true spirit of Shoestring Racing... budget training at its best... there are no power meters here.
A turbo trainer.. a fixed gear road bike... heart rate monitor to make sure its still beating.. and a laptop ( my mums) and dvd ( 24 solo or Overcoming) to try and stave off the boredom..

Turbo training is a twice weekly affair at the moment... 45 minute sessions... warm up... 5 x 2 minutes intervals at maximum resistance.. 10 minutes at a medium effort.. warm down..

I can't remember how i devised this session or even the reasoning behind it but i did it all last winter and it worked... so if it aint broke...