I felt the same about using my motorbike. It’s amazing how little time difference there is compared to cycling though tbh. Distance and traffic levels will vary, obviously, although changing the other end takes a tad longer when cycling depending on the kit you use on your motorbike.
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I commute a 25~30mi round trip 5 days a week and make sure I ride fairly hard both ways. When I come to do longer leisure rides at the weekend, I don't find them particularly difficult.
I think you need to do both, but you get the greatest fitness benefit from the shorter, sharper rides.
I think you need to do both, but you get the greatest fitness benefit from the shorter, sharper rides.
Tin Pot
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Variety is needed for continual improvement.
Do the frequent short rides while it suits, donlonger when you change your mind.
Perfect for Ironman then.
1. Avoid drowning
2. Ride bike
3. Walk it in muttering something about nutrition and dehydration
Do the frequent short rides while it suits, donlonger when you change your mind.
I am a very poor swimmer and bad knee stops me running. No issue cycling though as it’s rotational rather than impact. Not enough time to squeeze Gym in, so Commute is the best I can do.
I used to make the same journey on my CBR, before I got taken out by a parked car aiming for a gap that wasn’t there. Cycling the journey is far more fun than I remember the CBR being.
Perfect for Ironman then.
1. Avoid drowning
2. Ride bike
3. Walk it in muttering something about nutrition and dehydration
Is that the usual way of doing it? Lol
My problem is that I have a group of workmates who are very competitive iron man athletes and so my assumption was that this was the norm.
Tin Pot
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“Works” for me anyway!
I have yet to meet any Ironman athlete who is really competitive, even the guys who are pushing towards KQ are really laid back compared to cycle club racers anyway.
Back to your question, I think “little and often” is how humans improve at anything. But doing the same thing all the time flatlines after about three weeks.
The guys I know are actually proper chilled tbh. Their competitiveness is usually compared to their previous times, with the odd bit of banter where they’ve done the same race.
I have to say that I feel fitter now, having done a number of weeks of regular short hard blasts to and from work. I am intrigued as to how that translates into doing the Velothon on Sunday. 80 odd miles in pretty hot forecasted temperatures.
The last few years I have done it after doing longer rides, but less often, on the run up. This year I feel stronger.
I guess we will soon see.
I've yet to meet anyone at a race that isn't laid back and willing to share information . That includes tri clubs that are part of the combine my club is in .
Ming the Merciless
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Never fitter and faster than when I had a five days a week commute.
Thats massive wattage . You must be doing ten miles in less than 19 mins ?
uclown2002
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Well I'll never know as I have no interest in racing or riding outside since I was introduced to Zwift. I've had a few nasty accidents outside causing significant time off work which I can ill-afford. As a point of reference I did a 14 min TT @5.4 w/kg on Zwift.
uclown2002
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On Zwift!! Zwift miles are not real. I actually don't recall the distance but was certainly not anywhere near 10m.A 14 minute 10 mile ?
A 14 minute 10 mile ?
I can do faster, as long as the wheel is not in contact with the roller.
