Hi guys
I've been doing a long and quite hard group ride. The ride consisted of 5 intervals: 3x15 min. and 2x2-3 minutes. The ride was 3.5 hours with lots of recovery time mostly L2.
The 3 long intervals are quite hard ranging from L4 to L6, the average is L5, the 2 short intervals are L6.
My question is, from a fitness perspective, would it be better to skip the group ride and train alone. Where I could focus on keeping the long intervals in L4? and then another day, do the a session combined with L5 and L6 intervals.
I'm certainly able to push myself a lot harder, when doing the long intervals with the group than I would be by myself. But I'm not sure if this is a good thing. One of the advices from Joe Friels training bible that I've been trying to follow, is that I should always be able to do more after a training session. After this ride, I'm at least as tired as I would be after a race. TSS is higher than most of my races.
Since I'm between spring and fall season, I'm not going to do a race for 2 months. When thinking of it this way, it would perhaps make sense to use this as a race intensity workout, even though it doesn't quite follow the pattern of a typical race.
What do thing would be the best?
Thanks a lot in advance
I've been doing a long and quite hard group ride. The ride consisted of 5 intervals: 3x15 min. and 2x2-3 minutes. The ride was 3.5 hours with lots of recovery time mostly L2.
The 3 long intervals are quite hard ranging from L4 to L6, the average is L5, the 2 short intervals are L6.
My question is, from a fitness perspective, would it be better to skip the group ride and train alone. Where I could focus on keeping the long intervals in L4? and then another day, do the a session combined with L5 and L6 intervals.
I'm certainly able to push myself a lot harder, when doing the long intervals with the group than I would be by myself. But I'm not sure if this is a good thing. One of the advices from Joe Friels training bible that I've been trying to follow, is that I should always be able to do more after a training session. After this ride, I'm at least as tired as I would be after a race. TSS is higher than most of my races.
Since I'm between spring and fall season, I'm not going to do a race for 2 months. When thinking of it this way, it would perhaps make sense to use this as a race intensity workout, even though it doesn't quite follow the pattern of a typical race.
What do thing would be the best?
Thanks a lot in advance