Ride a Stationary Bike for 8 hours!

We just wrote about two charity events that took place on RealRyder stationary bikes last weekend! Our own Adam Reid was at Sweat Therapy Fitness RealRyder Cycle Studio in Tallahassee leading their March of Dimes ride!

This event was an indoor cycling relay, which went on all day with 16 RealRyder stationary bikes being ridden by 16 teams from 9am through to 5pm! At least it was a relay for the team riders, Adam however rode the whole day (8 hours)! Now to put that into perspective the longest one day professional bike race is Milan – San Remo and that ONLY takes about six and a half hours!

Riding 8 hours is some achievement, but riding for that long indoors can create some additional difficulties, specifically boredom and discomfort! On most fixed stationary bikes, spinning bikes or even bike trainers you are really stuck in one position with little movement! This story is a testament to Adam’s fitness and endurance, but also to the forgiving nature of the RealRyder “moving” stationary bike, that you can ride it for extended periods without discomfort. We talked about this in a blog titled How Long is Good on a Stationary Bike? back in April.

We asked Adam to tell us about his eight hour day on a stationary bike!

I didn’t have much of a plan and just went for it – the intensity of the first class was relatively high and it stayed very lively throughout – with new people transitioning in every 30 to 60 minutes for the relay I essentially repeated the first class 8 times. The only weird thing was finishing the first three classes looking up at the clock and cheerfully announcing “Ok team only five more hours to go”!

The amazing April was my domestique for the day and she kept me going with orange juice and soy lattes – Fabio Biasolo (an Ultra Distance Cycling Champion, who works with RealRyder) told me he once went through 200 oranges over 24 hours during one of his Race Across America events so I thought I’d try the same. I think I drank 96 ounces of OJ and went through probably half that in water. I took a couple of bathroom breaks but otherwise I was on the bike for the whole ride.

I had fantastic support from DJ Willie Brown and we played off each other really nicely – he played a track I rode to it – if I didn’t like it I’d give him a hand signal and he’d mix something else in – it was seamless and I loved working with him.

Surprisingly my legs felt fine. My head still feels like it’s full of cotton wool but physically I’m good – testament to the bike no doubt – I can’t imagine doing that many consecutive hours on a “stationary” indoor bike – also the boredom would have done me in, way before my legs gave out!

Adam makes it sound simple, doesn’t he! Apart from having the right tool for the job with the RealRyder tilting stationary bike, great support and a huge amount of positive group energy, he had one other essential element – fitness! Where does Adam’s fitness come from? He puts in many hours every week teaching RealRyder Indoor Cycling Classes and training instructors!

Sweat Therapy is a great place to work out, with an excellent team of instructors and a variety of different indoor cycling classes on the RealRyder stationary bikes! For more information on Sweat Therapy Fitness, click on their logo on the right to go to their website and Facebook Page which you can access through the website.

So if you want to do longer indoor cycling sessions, do them on a RealRyder moving stationary bike!