I have always enjoyed riding and last year I bought my first road bike after some expensive moutain bikes, great fun, everyone is the rabbit.
The probelm is I can't seem to get any faster. My ride five times a week is twenty four miles at 21 mph average, it is a pretty flat ride about 700 feet of vertical gain according to my gps. Three days a week I ride seven miles to the gym in a sprint to do core and upper body. On certain days I can gut it out an pull a 23 but rarely.
As I train by feel, how much it hurts, I don't know how honest my training is. My computer does not do cadence, it would seem like the right thing to measure but in talking to an ex pro racer heart rate is the way to go. What is right, how do I become faster.
The probelm is I can't seem to get any faster. My ride five times a week is twenty four miles at 21 mph average, it is a pretty flat ride about 700 feet of vertical gain according to my gps. Three days a week I ride seven miles to the gym in a sprint to do core and upper body. On certain days I can gut it out an pull a 23 but rarely.
As I train by feel, how much it hurts, I don't know how honest my training is. My computer does not do cadence, it would seem like the right thing to measure but in talking to an ex pro racer heart rate is the way to go. What is right, how do I become faster.