Great Forum, this is my first post.
I am posting to gather training opinions on excess miles outside of focused intervals.
For example, on Tuesday I rode for 2 hours. Tuesday is an interval day, I did 4 separate 10 min. Lactic Threshold intervals with 8 minute rest periods between each interval. Before the intervals I had a 15 minute warm-up I also had a 10 minute cool-down. If I add up the time spent doing my interval training – 15 minute warm-up + 40 minutes of total interval time + 24 minutes of total rest time between intervals + 10 min cool down, I am 1 hr 29 minutes into my ride. Since I was scheduled to ride for 2 hrs, I spun for another 30 minutes at a much lower heart rate to complete the full 2 hours.
My question is as follows. Since I already have a large base built, is the 30 minutes of riding after my intervals and cool down beneficial to my riding? In theory I would assume this time would be for recovery, but if I have 2 hours to ride, maybe I should be spending the time doing more intervals of the same or different type. When I do sprint intervals I have even more time left over…how I should spend this extra time? I am shooting for a 13 to 15 hour training week so I try for 2 hours a day during the week; I would like your opinion.
I am posting to gather training opinions on excess miles outside of focused intervals.
For example, on Tuesday I rode for 2 hours. Tuesday is an interval day, I did 4 separate 10 min. Lactic Threshold intervals with 8 minute rest periods between each interval. Before the intervals I had a 15 minute warm-up I also had a 10 minute cool-down. If I add up the time spent doing my interval training – 15 minute warm-up + 40 minutes of total interval time + 24 minutes of total rest time between intervals + 10 min cool down, I am 1 hr 29 minutes into my ride. Since I was scheduled to ride for 2 hrs, I spun for another 30 minutes at a much lower heart rate to complete the full 2 hours.
My question is as follows. Since I already have a large base built, is the 30 minutes of riding after my intervals and cool down beneficial to my riding? In theory I would assume this time would be for recovery, but if I have 2 hours to ride, maybe I should be spending the time doing more intervals of the same or different type. When I do sprint intervals I have even more time left over…how I should spend this extra time? I am shooting for a 13 to 15 hour training week so I try for 2 hours a day during the week; I would like your opinion.