By: Fat Cyclist

Fat Cyclist — Tue, 24 May 2005 19:44:51 +0000

I hope to accomplish (a) by doing (b), and not grazing during the weekend. The thing I worry about with doing short, intense training is that it makes you fit for short, intense races. I’ve got to be good for the long haul.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 24 May 2005 16:40:45 +0000

Sounds like a good year to do Leadville in 11 hours, but with a sprint finish. Say, that reminds me. Let’s train for next year’s STP (Seattle to Portland). 200 miles, one day or two. Say, that reminds me. We’re moving to Seattle end of June. I’ll be ready to start riding early July.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Tue, 24 May 2005 01:02:33 +0000

Let me play devil’s advocate. Since you successfully finished multiple Leadville 100s, you’ve obviously built up a stupendous aerobic base that most of us could only dream about. Whaever it is that allows one to do this ride annually, well…you’ve got the requisite studliness. Given this, do you believe that your performance in this year’s ‘Ville will be enhanced most by a) losing as many pounds as possible, b) riding as many training miles as possible, or c) losing a medium amount of weight while riding a medium amount of training miles?The assumption here is that you can’t do both a and b, full bore (unless you’re superman or on some whacky caffeine-ephedrine-diet coke-moles’ ears-larks’ vomit-carrot gorging-dillweed munching trip). So if you’ve got the training base miles in the bank, why not focus on dropping as much weight as possible in the remaining months, and doing just enough short, intense rides to keep the muscles tuned? Hell, you can work on losing weight 24×7, without danger of overtraining. But riding 2-3 hours a day, 5 days a week might be a tougher pill to swallow, especially if you miss a few days and then put yourself under even more pressure to play catch up.In any case, I sincerely hope you succeed.

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