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I'm curious about the difference of cycling, say, twenty miles in one ride versus five miles in four ride. Both done in a single day... Thanks, Cullen |
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On Dec 18, 3:33*pm, " wrote:
Hello, I'm curious about the difference of cycling, say, twenty miles in one ride versus five miles in four ride. Both done in a single day... Thanks, Cullen Many books have been written about the difference in training miles. Here are a few free online chapters. http://www.heartzones.com/resources/ |
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On Dec 18, 3:33*pm, " wrote:
Hello, I'm curious about the difference of cycling, say, twenty miles in one ride versus five miles in four ride. Both done in a single day... When I go to the Publix that's nearly twenty miles away on my city bike--I just go ahead and go there, I don't do it in intervals or anything. Your question is confusing. If it's fifty miles to beer, then go fifty miles to beer, but if there are good snacking sausages at mile thirty to put in your panniers to accompany beer, then this is a very appropriate stop. I hope this clears things up. |
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On Dec 18, 4:33*pm, " wrote:
Hello, I'm curious about the difference of cycling, say, twenty miles in one ride versus five miles in four ride. Both done in a single day... Thanks, Cullen Well, you could do the 4X5 at a faster pace than the 20 and possibly work on your anaerobic conditioning. Eric |
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, landotter wrote: On Dec 18, 3:33*pm, " wrote: Hello, I'm curious about the difference of cycling, say, twenty miles in one ride versus five miles in four ride. Both done in a single day... When I go to the Publix that's nearly twenty miles away on my city bike--I just go ahead and go there, I don't do it in intervals or anything. Your question is confusing. If it's fifty miles to beer, then go fifty miles to beer, but if there are good snacking sausages at mile thirty to put in your panniers to accompany beer, then this is a very appropriate stop. I hope this clears things up. Heh. It reminds me about the hardest bike ride I can ever remember doing: a 12-minute, 3.6 km hillclimb TT. http://wiredcola.com/content/my-first-timetrial Moral of the story: it's the pace, not the distance. Returning to intervals: You do intervals (going faster than your goal speed for a shorter duration than your target distance) to become faster. As an exercise form, it will make you faster. Riders who have no racing ambitions or need for speed can contentedly ride at any pace they want. I think the usual wisdom is that fat burning peaks at something like 80% of threshold power, which means doing a nice steady all-day pace is probably about as good for weight loss as anything else. Now, as for doing 4x5 miles versus 20 miles, if the pace is the same the "interval" ride will be less effort, though it depends on the duration of the rest periods, and the fitness of the rider (neither ride would tax most of the cyclists in rbm, frankly). If, however, you did both rides more or less as fast as you could, the "interval" would probably be better for your 20-mile TT times. That assumes you could put down an appreciably faster average speed in the 5 mile intervals. So if you were training to ride 20 miles as fast as possible, I'd recommend something like the 4x5mile intervals. Note that I am not a coach, or even very smart. Since there are enough books out there on TT training (aka triathlon bike legs) to fill a 5-mile bookshelf, take a trip to your local library and read up on the details of training for these kinds of events. They will have better recommendations regarding specific intervals, and also lots of other fun stuff like periodization and peaking. -- Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/ "In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls." "In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them." |
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If it's fifty miles to beer, then go fifty miles to beer, but if there
are good snacking sausages at mile thirty to put in your panniers to accompany beer, then this is a very appropriate stop. I hope this clears things up. Irrefutably! -- mac the naïf |
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" writes: Hello, I'm curious about the difference of cycling, say, twenty miles in one ride versus five miles in four ride. Both done in a single day... With four shorter out-'n-backs you're guaranteed access to an indoor bathroom if necessary. If you're shopping in the city you get to acquire more preferred stuff, with multiple trips to various parts of town, while getting the exercise benefit of propelling a cargo-laden bike. You can also check up on the current conditions of favourite routes which radiate from your home base. And you can see how new developments (like the new Dairy Queen being built) are coming along. 20/30/50-milers are good too. 'Specially if you have some reward or trophy to look forward to at the turnaround point. Like handcrafted, orignal style, real pizza. And beer. Or a Coke. Or a glass of zinfandel. Whatever is suitable at the time. Well, the wine snobs recommend zinfandel w/ pizza. They always recommend zinfandel, 'cuz it's a fallbackedly "safe" recommendation for anything. It's like recommending any flavour of ice cream to top any flavour of Jell-O. I sez, go fer the gusto -- grappa! If the pizzeria makes it in-house grappa (and you have to give the secret word to get the Good Stuff,) so much the better. Anyways, stop-&-start riding will beef-up your legs & lungs more than a bunch of longer distance cruising or coasting. Especially when your stops-'n-starts are on upgrades. But go easy on the pie & grappa. You wanna make it home without having to jettison fuel. cheers, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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