I have been riding / training pretty seriously for about 15 years now and am now age 48. I travel for work about 1 or 2x per month. Normally short trips of 2-4 days. 2x a year I got to China for a week. I normally ride about 9.5 hours per week and my CTL is usually 60-7x. I am good about planning my traveling week as a rest week, but I am wondering if anyone else has any experience with how to make a smooth transition back to riding. Normally I won't take more than 2 days off without at least sitting on a crappy hotel bike and getting some kind of spin in to help keep my legs used to moving. Regardless when I get back home and get on the bike my legs don't feel very good for the first day, but it seems to take 3-4 days sometimes to get back to where they feel decent. ( this usually coincides with my TSB being even to slightly negative).
Does anyone have any strategies for dealing with this type of issue? I was thinking my next China trip for 7 days of just getting on the crappy bike every 3rd day and riding about half an hour ( always short on time) with maybe 3-4 minutes around threshold and 4 30 second max efforts on some pretty short rest just to try to keep things moving. Any input is appreciated!
Does anyone have any strategies for dealing with this type of issue? I was thinking my next China trip for 7 days of just getting on the crappy bike every 3rd day and riding about half an hour ( always short on time) with maybe 3-4 minutes around threshold and 4 30 second max efforts on some pretty short rest just to try to keep things moving. Any input is appreciated!