Turbo Trainer Inspiration - cycling footage - where from?

dru
dru Posts: 1,341
edited December 2011 in Training, fitness and health
Hi People,

I'm currently doing a few turbo training sets during the week and trying to help keep my focus following the sets that I'm following by watching some inspriring cycling footage.

At the moment I'm limited to Youtube footage - which obviously is limited in contents, quality and times (longest footage is only 15 min) and most intervals are at least 15 min long etc - so I'm wondering if people could point me in the right direction to either legal online footage from various cycling websites etc or recommend some dvd cycling footage that I can purchase.

I'm not talking about sufferfests or spinervals as I'm following a pre-scribed coached set - I'm just looking for footage to watch (ie like the videos thart always seem to be playing in good cycling shops when you visit them)

Cheers,

Dru

Comments

  • Dirty_Harry
    Dirty_Harry Posts: 34
    Hi Mate,

    I'm sure others on here know of plenty of places to download videos etc. Here are ones I've used:

    The most common one is http://www.cyclingtorrents.nl(you will need to download a torrent program, I use uTorrent).

    Another one I've just come across which is excellent and doesn't use torrents is http://www.videosdeciclismo.net/

    You could watch all the Beyond The Peloton videos on the Cervelo website.

    Finally if you go on youtube, and search cycling and filter it by checking the long>20 minutes option you can watch the watercarriers one (forgot the name) and The Greatest Show On Earth, aswell as a shed-load of others
  • Mad Roadie
    Mad Roadie Posts: 710
    do try there - they are really good - http://www.real-life-video.nl/index.php/en/
  • Mr Dog
    Mr Dog Posts: 643
    Support the Sufferfest.. if done correctly will have you in tears. :twisted:
    Why tidy the house when you can clean your bike?
  • jgsi
    jgsi Posts: 5,062
    Use Youtube with a downloader so that you can grab the sequences.
    Then stitch 'em together with a video editor (videopad ) and if you want, over lay music tracks... you can easily make 60 mins worth of turbo work...trying to keep pace on Fleche Wallone up the Mur de huy for example
  • dru
    dru Posts: 1,341
    Mr Dog wrote:
    Support the Sufferfest.. if done correctly will have you in tears. :twisted:


    I've already got a tough program to follow that my coach has given me - I just want to have some inspiring cycling footage to watch whilst turboing. :)
  • legendary27
    legendary27 Posts: 40
    A Sunday in Hell is available on YouTube. It is about an hour and a half I think. A great watch !

    Regards,
    Gordon
  • APIII
    APIII Posts: 2,010
    Have a look for cyclocross channel on YouTube. They have plenty of races of an hour or so.
  • APIII
    APIII Posts: 2,010
    JGSI wrote:
    Use Youtube with a downloader so that you can grab the sequences.
    Then stitch 'em together with a video editor (videopad ) and if you want, over lay music tracks... you can easily make 60 mins worth of turbo work...trying to keep pace on Fleche Wallone up the Mur de huy for example

    Or you can just create a playlist of the vids you want to watch in YouTube and it will play them in order.
  • dru
    dru Posts: 1,341
    Dirty_Harry wrote:

    Another one I've just come across which is excellent and doesn't use torrents is http://www.videosdeciclismo.net/


    Thanks for all the sugestions, but thanks DH for posting this link.

    All this week my turbo training has revolved around watching the tour of California 2011.

    Much better than just listening to the tunes on the ipod :)

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