On Saturday, September 22, 2018 at 12:54:03 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Saturday, September 22, 2018 at 12:28:38 AM UTC+2, Frank Krygowski wrote:

I think one of the beneficial effects of bicycling is that if you're
doing it in any enthusiastic manner, the intervals are built in. Well,
unless you live in pancake land. Around here, you're bound to climb
hills, often short and relatively steep ones, unless you choose your
route very carefully.


Living in pancake land the problem with intervals is the motivation to do so, because it is hard and it hurts. If it is windy it is easy because here you can easily plan a curvy route with alternating head winds and tail winds. Riding with a powermeter also motivates you to push and you see when you are pushing. Strava segments also helps to motivate to push. I check several Strava segments along my routes and my Garmin tells me to get ready to race that segment 150 meters or so before. I like that.

Lou

Yesterday a friend wanted to go on a long ride. For him that would be 40 miles and he is slow. So we did 40 miles riding along mostly at 12 and 13 mph and although it ended up beating him up pretty badly I would think that he could do 50 miles next week. On the return trip I was pretty surprised at the amount of declining roads. On the way out I hadn't noticed at all the slight climbing.

I decided to call this my aerobic endurance ride...…...