{"id":902,"date":"2009-12-06T21:29:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T20:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=902"},"modified":"2009-12-06T22:51:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T21:51:28","slug":"turbo-with-delia-and-the-human-power-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"Turbo with Delia and the Human Power Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new setup for the turbo trainer this year to make it slightly less boring.<a href=\"http:\/\/img.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2007\/06_01\/DeliaDM1006_468x625.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"delia\" src=\"http:\/\/img.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2007\/06_01\/DeliaDM1006_468x625.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a> I am using my old Specialized Sirrus permanently mated to the\u00a0trainer in the garage with a little table in front with a fan and an old laptop, connected to our home network and the internet. I&#8217;ve been queuing up various hour or 1\/2 hour BBC iPlayer episodes of recent programs, mainly James Mays toy stories and Top Gears, but desperation on Wednesday and to time to search for anything better drove me to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliaonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Delia&#8217;s Christmas special <\/a>while doing a 4 x 10 zone 4 mins interval session. Mind you, I missed the finer points of her chocolate pudding towards the end of the 3rd effort with sweat dripping in my eyes, and I missed the Turkey stuffing bit completely when Holly ducked under the garage door for a night night kiss. Being longer than an hour I warmed down to darting giant squid on &#8216;Life&#8217; which I though were quite\u00a0nice until I learned they were 2 metres long !<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/electricpedals.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/hps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Human Power Station\" src=\"http:\/\/electricpedals.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/hps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a>More interestingly on Friday morning \u00a0I watched the first half of an experiment that tried to power a normal house with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/8392451.stm\" target=\"_blank\">80 people on turbo trainers<\/a> just like mine rigged up with lots of tech. Many of the riders did not look like they were seasoned cyclists but I did spot some serious Lycra clad thighs sprinkled around. The idea was that most people can keep up around 100watts and with 80 of them they could power an 8 kilowatt electric shower. Ill watch the rest on Monday morning at 6am when I have my next turbo session, but I was thinking I can average 340 Watts for 4 mins in the Watt bike racing so perhaps I could power the laptop !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new setup for the turbo trainer this year to make it slightly less boring. I am using my old Specialized Sirrus permanently mated to the\u00a0trainer in the garage with a little table in front with a fan and an old laptop, connected to our home network and the internet. I&#8217;ve been queuing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=902\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turbo with Delia and the Human Power Station&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}