Training tips -whats better death or steady?

[mlocke]

I was riding the Old ports today and hammered myself for the first 25 miles and then trudged round at a snails pace and this made me think......

how would you improve more........

Kill yourself then hang in or taking it steady at your own pace and maintain a similar pace all the way on a ride.

Also why??

Cheers

Mark

[Toks]

[quote="mlocke"]I was riding the Old ports today and hammered myself for the first 25 miles and then trudged round at a snails pace and this made me think......

how would you improve more........

Kill yourself then hang in or taking it steady at your own pace and maintain a similar pace all the way on a ride.

Also why??

Cheers

Mark

[kieran]

Maybe the best is a compromise, go hard for a while then easy then hard again etc, like recreating a turbo session on the road or like taking turns at the front of a group and then falling back to recover.

[Snoop Doug]

Dr Snoop here. There's no one right answer to yr question. For a RR having done all of two of these (self appointed expert alert) I would say attack the hills and take it steady on the rest. That's what I did yesterday - had a blast, got a great work out and didn't struggle.......much! Psychologically I wouldn't think running out of steam 25m into a 60m RR is much fun.

On the club run the tried and tested method seems to be just go up a group and hang on as long as you can, safe in the knowledge there's a bunch behind you to pick you up and carry you along.

Next!

[Andrew G]

[quote="Snoop"]On the club run the tried and tested method seems to be just go up a group and hang on as long as you can, safe in the knowledge there's a bunch behind you to pick you up and carry you along.