Ridgeway
Veteran
- Location
- Lausanne, Switzerland
Started commuting on my road bike just over a year ago, lasted until the real winter set in and then carried on through the year although wasn’t that committed, too many bad weather days, too hard to carry clothes and equipment (Was using a road bike and a rucksack, not ideal). Switched over to an ebike with panniers 4 months back and have have stuck at it with 3-4 days a week on average on the bike. It’s a great way to get some hidden time exercise when on busy days it would be hard to find an hour for a winter training session.
Decided to take this a step further and in December started to do some Zone 2 sessions (HR based) on the commute. As i don’t typical use a HRM on a commute i just used one for a week to get a feel for the effort and have since just tried to replicate that. In the mornings it’s quite hard to remember that you’re actually trying to put in an effort and not just get to work, on the way home i always seem more motivated and have to make sure i don’t get too carried away. Like this i’be been managing typically 3-4 x 30mins Z2 sessions a week and 95% of those sessions are at a decent Z2 and not all over the place.
Going to try to structure it a bit more and maybe throw in some other efforts, sprints or something else TBD. Might have to put the PM pedals on the ebike to see what i can map, hoping that as it’s a fixed route i can set “speeds” as my target to achieve certain effort levels although wind will be the big variable in that case, maybe need to see how i can use the HR on my watch as i just ride with Stava as my cycling app on a commute.
Anyone else do any specific training on their commutes ?
Todays ride home via the post office (first time I’ve commuted in daylight for months it feels like)
Decided to take this a step further and in December started to do some Zone 2 sessions (HR based) on the commute. As i don’t typical use a HRM on a commute i just used one for a week to get a feel for the effort and have since just tried to replicate that. In the mornings it’s quite hard to remember that you’re actually trying to put in an effort and not just get to work, on the way home i always seem more motivated and have to make sure i don’t get too carried away. Like this i’be been managing typically 3-4 x 30mins Z2 sessions a week and 95% of those sessions are at a decent Z2 and not all over the place.
Going to try to structure it a bit more and maybe throw in some other efforts, sprints or something else TBD. Might have to put the PM pedals on the ebike to see what i can map, hoping that as it’s a fixed route i can set “speeds” as my target to achieve certain effort levels although wind will be the big variable in that case, maybe need to see how i can use the HR on my watch as i just ride with Stava as my cycling app on a commute.
Anyone else do any specific training on their commutes ?
Todays ride home via the post office (first time I’ve commuted in daylight for months it feels like)
