NATURAL ANKLING wrote:Hi,
How long not how far as its time and effort, are your training rides ?, I am just curios, my training rides are normally 2.5 hrs.
Sometimes 4 hrs and occasionally 5 hrs, any thing up to 4 hrs I don't consume food on the ride.
I do lots of different types of rides, sometimes I ride with the club and they seem more interested in speed than anything else, they tend to do about 40 to 70 miles at between 18 and 20mph. I tend to go on these for the social aspect rather than the training. It's miles on a bike, and speed is useful but I don't find this kind of training very helpful for touring or long distance rides. If this is a weekend ride, I would tend to turn off towards the end of the ride and spin out to 100 miles at a more leisurely pace.
I do quite a lot of hill training, mostly because I enjoy it, where I live is hilly and you get a lot of bang for your buck. These tend to be about 2 hours, and occasionally up to 4 hours. I don't take a computer with me. Where I live (Bath) enables me to just go up a hill, come down and straight up another.
I do long distance rides, which I build up from spring until early summer, starting at about 100 miles and up to 200 miles. I know your question was about time rather than distance, but I don't tend to measure my rides this way
In Spring, I throw in a few Sportive Type rides: Tour of Pembrokeshire, Dragon, Mendip Madness, etc. Mostly not when the event is on - just with a copy of the route.
In deep winter I do more gym work, spin classes and turbo. I try to build strength and power in the winter and then build distance up from Spring.
At this time of year, the touring tends to keep me fit and I can just enjoy my cycling with no real goal. Did an End to End of Spain in July, LeJoG in August and I'm off to Hebrides the day after tomorrow.
I build up my
Some of my rides are very structured with goals - usually distance, and some are completely free form