Just reappeared on FB:
That was a fucking nightmare I’ll never forget.
Dumb trainer, speed/cadence sensor, no fan.
I’ve spent seven years in the garage since that fateful day! 
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Did you quit or not?
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I did it at the back of the garage, picked up bike and turbo together and stopped myself from hurling it over the fence. Total rage. 
That was 2016, so my first Ironman UK. I think I didn’t go back to TR for about another 12 months, got the test protocol right and haven’t looked back.
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That’s about where I am now. 
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I remember doing my first one in my shed on a dumb trainer. It was the Sufferfest ‘Rubber Glove’ video. Fucking awful experience - I think it gave me an ftp of around 220 watts. Must have been about 2013 or so. It’s taken me a decade then to gain 100 or so watts
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What was the Sufferfest Tony Martin TT one called, Scream? That bastard hurt.
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The scream. Yeah that was a bastard!
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If you weren’t into cycling, or triathlon, that could mean something very different.
#dominatrix
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Whoops just managed to delete a random post from months ago, for no reason. Sorry
“Rubber glove” → “Dominatrix” → Accidentally deleted post.
We believe you fruity 
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it came up in “suggested” posts window thing, I thought ??? as had no memory
then managed to bin it somehow too which made the thread reappear again
idunno
For the record it was a very dull post about doing first ever FTP test when I got a power meter
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