Timeline for What can I do to help me sustain frequent long-ish rides?
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| May 8, 2013 at 16:34 | comment | added | Kaz | @TalFishman Oh, taking stops, or generally, using your brakes and going slowly down the hill, will add to your time, for sure, but not significantly to the overall effort. | |
| May 8, 2013 at 16:09 | comment | added | Tal Fishman | @Kaz Taking those stop sign out would definitely reduce my time by a couple of minutes. I'm probably going about 35 MPH at the point that I have to stop, while on flats I can rarely sustain over 20 MPH. Thankfully, the Parks Dept is working on a new ramp that would remove the stop, but it won't be ready for another year. | |
| May 4, 2013 at 0:43 | comment | added | Kaz | Just because you have to make stops doesn't mean you don't get the benefit of coasting downhill! The one "waste" is when you're already off the hill and on the flat, and you cannot keep the kinetic energy because there is a stop. Well, that kinetic energy isn't something you can keep for long anyway. Within a few hundred yards, most of it is dissipated in air drag. | |
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| Apr 26, 2013 at 13:11 | comment | added | jimchristie♦ | @TalFishman The 10% rule is more or less uniform to any endurance sport. Injury is part of it to be sure, but it's also about accumulated fatigue. Your body wants to rest while it rebuilds muscle. If you never give it the chance, you just get more and more tired with every passing day/week. It will eventually even out though. It just takes time. | |
| Apr 26, 2013 at 11:21 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | 15 miles is no great distance. You do need to eat something, with a few carbs, before you start (and give it a few minutes to digest), but nothing special. Be sure to drink enough fluid, though, before and during the ride. Cut back on your riding a bit, until you recover. (There is a vague possibility that you have a metabolic disorder such as myoadenylate deaminase deficiency, but I wouldn't worry about it until you've been several months without improvement.) | |
| Apr 26, 2013 at 10:36 | answer | added | James Bradbury | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 26, 2013 at 9:55 | answer | added | Qwerky | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 25, 2013 at 20:20 | comment | added | Tal Fishman | @jimirings Thanks, but I wonder how much of that advice is related to injury prevention, which is a much bigger risk in high-impact running than low-impact cycling. Also, back to the question itself, I know I'm making a big jump, the question is what to do to make the jump easier. | |
| Apr 25, 2013 at 19:19 | comment | added | jimchristie♦ | @TalFishman I didn't mean that to be a dismissive "Google it yourself." It's just that there's some disagreement on how strictly it should be applied, whether the rest week should be less than the previous week or the same, etc. | |
| Apr 25, 2013 at 18:59 | comment | added | jimchristie♦ | @TalFishman If you Google "10 percent rule" you'll find loads. A lot of it will be about running just because more people try running at some point in their lives than cycling, but it's more or less the same for any sport. It's also usually interpreted as 10% more time or distance, but it can also be the same time and distance with 10% more effort. This is hard to gauge though unless you have a device to measure the watts that you're putting out. | |
| Apr 25, 2013 at 18:49 | comment | added | Tal Fishman | @jimirings Do you have a source for increasing only 10-15% per week with no increase every fourth week? That seems like an interesting guideline. Truth is I also had some previous weeks with 4 rides, but also some with 1 or even none if it was snowing, so 2-3 is sort of an average, not a range. | |
| Apr 25, 2013 at 3:45 | comment | added | jimchristie♦ | @KenHiatt is right. Food isn't your problem. It's the sudden increase in your overall weeklong exercise load. Most experts recommend an increase of 10-15% per week with no increase about every fourth week. You've basically doubled your weeklong load. It's not that it can't be done, it just leaves you feeling fatigued and discouraged and causes a lot of people to give up. Just keep slogging through and you'll be good in a couple/few weeks. | |
| Apr 24, 2013 at 23:05 | comment | added | Ken Hiatt | It will take your body more than the two weeks to start adjusting (this is a GOOD thing, you're getting in better shape). There are folks that will swear by various nutrition guidelines to assist, but IMO, just eat healthy and keep at it. Your body will get used to the abuse in a couple more weeks. If you feel especially sore/fatigued, take a rest day mid week. Soon you won't need one. Happy Riding. | |
| Apr 24, 2013 at 21:14 | answer | added | Mark T | timeline score: 3 | |
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