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On May 2, 4:02 am, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On May 1, 5:55 pm, SLAVE of THE STATE <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 30, 7:16 pm, "Tom Kunich" <cyclintom@yahoo. com> wrote:
>
> > > Riding easy is AS IMPORTANT as riding hard.
>
> > No.
>
> I think I agree.
If he would have left out the screeching "AS IMPORTANT" there would
have been nothing much to make of a deal of, or even disagree with.
Some of us have raced on 8-12 hr a week of training. An "easy" day
for me was more often a day I didn't even get on the bike, and there
were plenty of those. Enough "rest" wasn't so hard to do. Conditions
forced it.
There wasn't much time on the bike, so a good share of it was
"hard."
> What maybe is applicable for pros at the outer fringe
> of possible fitness levels and with massive training volume and work
> levels may not be so for guys like me who are just farting along in
> comparison.
>
> In other words, I am so far away from being over-trained that easy
> rides don't have such an important place for me. That doesn't mean I
> go hard all the time, I don't have the mental toughness (nor desire)
> for that. It just means that if I go half-hard sometimes instead of
> easy, it's not the end of the world.
For the situation facing a lot of amateurs, I think a back off during
the week leading to a weekend race covers most of the physical "rest"
they will need. At least that is what I noticed about my body. I'd
have just that little bit extra punch and few matches if I backed off
a bit. I'm sure different people have varying sensitivity.
But the "regular" training was routinely hard. I trained with people
that were better than me -- I was routinely pushed to my limits. That
is how I increased those limits -- not by going "easy." And no, I
could not fully recover from these training rides in one day. By
"recover" I mean go that fast again in combination with sustaining it,
or repeating as many hard intervals as fast.
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On May 1, 5:55 pm, SLAVE of THE STATE <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 30, 7:16 pm, "Tom Kunich" <cyclintom@yahoo. com> wrote:
>
> > > Riding easy is AS IMPORTANT as riding hard.
>
> > No.
>
> I think I agree.
If he would have left out the screeching "AS IMPORTANT" there would
have been nothing much to make of a deal of, or even disagree with.
Some of us have raced on 8-12 hr a week of training. An "easy" day
for me was more often a day I didn't even get on the bike, and there
were plenty of those. Enough "rest" wasn't so hard to do. Conditions
forced it.
There wasn't much time on the bike, so a good share of it was
"hard."
> What maybe is applicable for pros at the outer fringe
> of possible fitness levels and with massive training volume and work
> levels may not be so for guys like me who are just farting along in
> comparison.
>
> In other words, I am so far away from being over-trained that easy
> rides don't have such an important place for me. That doesn't mean I
> go hard all the time, I don't have the mental toughness (nor desire)
> for that. It just means that if I go half-hard sometimes instead of
> easy, it's not the end of the world.
For the situation facing a lot of amateurs, I think a back off during
the week leading to a weekend race covers most of the physical "rest"
they will need. At least that is what I noticed about my body. I'd
have just that little bit extra punch and few matches if I backed off
a bit. I'm sure different people have varying sensitivity.
But the "regular" training was routinely hard. I trained with people
that were better than me -- I was routinely pushed to my limits. That
is how I increased those limits -- not by going "easy." And no, I
could not fully recover from these training rides in one day. By
"recover" I mean go that fast again in combination with sustaining it,
or repeating as many hard intervals as fast.