Trainer Time: Download Suffering!  Personally, I can never run
out of ways to trick myself into thinking I'm having a good
time, or otherwise working hard, on the trainer. I've got race
videos, tried a training DVD or two, and taken in my share of
Seinfeld reruns... all while chasing the quicksilver dude from
Terminator 2 on the computrainer. So it's saying something when
I finish with a new video and think, that was pretty damn good.
Enter the Sufferfest.  The Sufferfest is a company that makes
downloadable video workouts using race footage from a selection
of pro events and local crits, the usual adrenaline music, and
some of the more effective peanut gallery comments around. The
workouts are structured 60-minute efforts -- the first one
called the "Downward Spiral" is a series of short, max intervals
starting at two minutes and decreasing by 15 seconds each time
(with breathers in between of the same length), then starting
the process over for a second round. When it's time to recover,
you're watching a s