It strikes me that seldom have I ever felt like I was riding enough. Which is a good think, me thinks.
I'm guessing your really talking about finding the time to do the prep rides so you aren't seriously undermiled during the event. The best advice I ever got was that no ride is too short. At the time, I was working about 4 or 5 miles away from home, and didn't think much of those miles. Tried to get in "serious rides" and often cartopped the bike and drove in for a big group ride we did on Wednesdays after work. I was overdoing it on those, making myself too tired to want to ride the next day, and so it became less frequent rides and I seemed to suffer more on weekend outings.. A coworker mentioned that just riding every day had helped him (from a recommendation via a very competitive rider/racer), so I began doing that. After a month of not feeling like I was riding that much (though being on the bike made it much easier to add an indirect loop to the commute on the way home), I started feeling much stronger on longer rides. The other thing that a lot of folks do is kinda sorta ride the same way every time they go out. IME, it's better to go harder than you want to or much easier than you feel you can do. I do rides (which I dub "spinning sitting saturday" rides - where if I have a coastable, multigeared drivetrain under me, I keep seated, and every time I feel like I'm comfortable, I shift to an easier gear. Rinse and repeat until you are buzzing along in a ridiculously low gear.) On the other end of that equation, riding a fixed gear or riding a hard trail loop with a lot of technical climbing can be more of a challenge in a shorter period of time. Also, I think as you get older, your endurance seems to be additive. All those years of miles seem to give me a decent base that doesn't go away even if I have a low mileage month. Hope that helps, - J / cyclofiend.com On Friday, February 21, 2014 5:12:47 PM UTC-8, murphyjrfk wrote: > > I know it's a bit off topic- but it's still cold and snowy. > > It seems every year, especially winter, I get grand ideas to get out and > ride more. Lofty goals like finishing a P12 and taking a tour--but alas it > never happens. I read about Jan's adventures and other list members and I > know they have families and kids and jobs and other grown up things and can > still find the time. I can't ever seem to. Between the kids and wife and > work and etc etc it just seems to fly and then it's another winter thinking > the same thing. Don't get me wrong I love my kids and my wife and my job > for that matter-but man I'd like to ride a bit more too. > > So you over achievers among us-how do you do it?! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
