Just bought myself a Tacx turbo trainer. Whilst just spinning away on it seems to be doing the trick I was wondering if anyone here has a program for training on them? Something like spin for 5 mins, sprint for 1 min. Repeat till knackered???

You could follow some of the workouts reccomended in the Lance Armstrong training manual. You'll need a heart rate monitor though

You keep your heart in certain beat ranges for a certain amount of time or something?

Yes

It's all explained in the book very well and certainly makes a difference to your riding if speed is your thing

well, i want to do a merida in a semi decent time. thats the goal of the year. done some 24hours but want to try something new.

ive got an ok base fitness at the moment to build upon. i guess im looking for sustained effort rather than loads of instant speed.

Maybe


The manual takes you through training for different aims such as endurance, speed, sprinting and hill climbing so would fit teh bill for you nicely I'd say

theres an advert in cycling news for dvds that help training someone more informed than me will probably know the name of them

then again,

if i start watching one and a half hours of lance armstrong waffling on whilst on the turbo i may do myself an injury falling asleep and chinning myself on the stem.

maybe what i need is a dvd of about the same amount of time with lots of fit naked ladies running down a beach saying 'chase me, chase me!' - that would keep me interested. cycling may be difficult then though.