Inside Riding?

Why ride inside?

• You can ride regardless of weather, temperature, daylight, time of day, etc. Plus thirty or minus thirty, indoor riding works!
• There's no coasting on an indoor trainer. Reports of coasting on real road are as high as 10 to 30% of your actual riding time! All riding inside is actual turn-the-pedals riding.
• No stop lights. No chasing dogs. No rough roads.
• Your workout is right there in front of you. There's no having to ride to the hills to do hill repeats. There's no having to ride out to the local time trial circuit to get your time trial in.
• Effort is consistent throughout your workout. When the indoor trainer is set to any given intensity, the trainer holds you to it and doesn't allow you to back off.
• You can constantly monitor your power...which unless you have an expensive on-the-bike power meter you cannot do outside.
• Athletes typically describe working harder on our indoor trainers than they otherwise would outside on their own.
• You can quantify your fitness. No more guessing whether you're fitter or less so compared to previous seasons. Constant monitoring of power and the likes of heart rate allow you to compare apples to apples.
• You can ride with other riders of differing fitness levels than yourself...and still stay together throughout the entire workout. No more getting dropped or having to double back for your riding mates.
• The ability to train for your own personal race while the athlete next to you is training for his or her different race. Training specificity.
• You're on your bike. Not a spin bike. Your bike.
• Safety: no worrying about traffic, pedestrians, or daylight.