Why do you say that.
ShOw Me ThE sCiEnCe 
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You’re both wrong ( I have nothing to back this statement up. I thought I’d just fan the flames )
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“Folks how does an hour on my turbo in zone 2 compare with an hour outside in zone 2?”
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Similar but no chance of death.
Next…!
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It depends if the trainer is at 1% and you are doing it one legged
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More time efficient indoors; but no riding skills practiced.
TSS is probably larger indoors, as there’s no coasting.
Probably a better Z2 workout, too; as you’re not accelerating away from junctions. Or into the wind, or tractors, etc.
Far better to hop on Zwift for a recovery ride than go outside.
That’s the sole reason I’m still using it now 
But yeah - a Z2 ride is pretty much the same inside or out. Fools.
Much greater opportunity for watching TV.
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Much better for staying frickin warm. Cos this May is flippin crap!
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“I want to do triathlon but Im too scared to ride my bike” mmmm I doubt many people on the internet are going to help you there. Common problem I might add, especially after serious crashes but at what point did it seem like a good idea to sign up for a race when you have ridden a bike with clipless pedals twice in your life and fallen off twice. I do love the inclusivity of tri but sometimes I’m baffled that people would sign up for expensive races and be so underprepared. I suppose it could be worse, she could have signed up for an Ironman.
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Is that a real post?
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unfortunately yes. IMJ. They had done a sprint but swapped to clipless pedals and fell off (as we all did) then didn’t ride all winter and fell off again.
I’ve coached 2 girls that had issues at my old tri club, but I took them on a velodrome, spent a good hour with them and by the end they were sitting inches off my wheel and calling out etc. I also know people not quite so bad but they have to stop to take a drink or eat (have finished Ironman as well!) but a bike race, allbeit in a tri, is no place for nervous riders
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To be fair, I think there’s probably lots of triathletes who quite happily train on the turbo and have high levels of bike fitness, but they’re scared of riding on the roads, mainly due to a fear of traffic.
All very well until you get to a race and even if it’s a closed road event, you’ve still got to have some sort of bike handling skills to ride safely outdoors.
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That’s why London tri always ended in carnage. novices and type A’s who had spent all year on a turbo smashing a wattfest all mixing on a very busy road
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Oh joy.
Drafting …!
I try and stay well away from everyducker.
I’m hardly pro tour standard, handling wise, but a healthy dose of common noggin goes a long way.
I’ve seen a few very very near misses, with foreign athletes moving the opposite way.
Anyone who follows a flash age grouper down a sketchy descent and then moans when they break and you don’t … that’s on you.
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there was a guy many years ago on the RW Pirate IM group who signed up for an IM (think it might have been Germany in 2006) who wouldn’t go out on the road on his bike - did all his training on a turbo. he kept being asked how the hell he was going to cope come race day and he never answered, always obfuscated. needless to say he didn’t make the start.
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A triathlon involves a swim, a bike ride and a run.
If you can’t/don’t like the swim and/or you don’t like cycling then why the hell would you enter a triathlon? There are so many other fitness-related events that would be much more to your tastes and probably more enjoyable.
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Run races
Swim races
Bike races
Duathlon
Aquabike
Aquathlon
Swimrun
Take your pick, you don’t have to do a Tri and you definitely don’t have to do a LD Tri
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Chatted to an American living in Reading on the bus to the start of Roth. He got picked up by the police for cycling down the hard shoulder of the M4 on one of his training rides - did the most of the rest of his training on a turbo
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