In my area and to my understanding of the best roads to cycling in a 50 mile radius of where I live are the following choices.
1. A highway that is mostly uphill gradient and will allow a 20 minute uninterrupted stretch of road before coming to the next town. The downside to this location is a few downhill spots where I struggled on the last test to catch up to the drop in wattage because of the couple of dips. I really struggle to spin at a fast rate and I have compact gearing.
2. A 9 mile uninterrupted mountain climb with an average of 8% gradient, but does have a couple small dips. I may manage to spin fast enough on those dips to keep my wattage up.
3. Indoor trainer. Seems to be the most consistent resistance and unintertupted spot to test if I can keep cool enough, but it is not like it is very cool outdoors either at this moment.
Those seem to be my best options for my location.
I see most of the guys and gals in the know do their tests outdoors.
Is it just too hard to keep focused for a 20 minute test on the trainer? Seems to be the most ideal spot for consistency and certainly no traffic interuptions, but I rarely see anyone talk highly about testing indoors.
1. A highway that is mostly uphill gradient and will allow a 20 minute uninterrupted stretch of road before coming to the next town. The downside to this location is a few downhill spots where I struggled on the last test to catch up to the drop in wattage because of the couple of dips. I really struggle to spin at a fast rate and I have compact gearing.
2. A 9 mile uninterrupted mountain climb with an average of 8% gradient, but does have a couple small dips. I may manage to spin fast enough on those dips to keep my wattage up.
3. Indoor trainer. Seems to be the most consistent resistance and unintertupted spot to test if I can keep cool enough, but it is not like it is very cool outdoors either at this moment.
Those seem to be my best options for my location.
I see most of the guys and gals in the know do their tests outdoors.
Is it just too hard to keep focused for a 20 minute test on the trainer? Seems to be the most ideal spot for consistency and certainly no traffic interuptions, but I rarely see anyone talk highly about testing indoors.