Subject: Trainer Gearing Questions
Yesterday I got my new tri bike on the trainer for the first time (previous to that, I was using my road bike on the trainer ). Both bikes have a 50/34 crank set - but, the road bike has a 12-25 cassette and the tri bike has a 11-26 cassette.
Coach Troy (Spinnervals ) likes to use the 34-15 combination for rest periods - which seems to suit me just fine on the road bike ( I was resting at about 90 RPMs, 150W ). However, that combination is now missing on my tri bike. I can choose either 34-14 or 34-16. At the same RPMs, 34-14 seems too hard for rest and 34-16 seems too easy. Yesterday, for the sake of calling it rest, I chose 34-16. This took me down to about 80W @ 90 RPMs.
So, I'm not sure what I should do here...
> Choose the easier gear and get more rest (same RPMs )
> HTFU and choose the harder gear (same RPMs )
> Try to find some common ground... hard gears, less RPMs.
Any thoughts?
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