Originally Posted by
chasm54
Thanks for that link, Fred. Reading it emphasises, for me, the fact that there is less difference between the approaches than one might imagine at first glance. Carmichael is suggesting roughly seven hours per week on the bike, of which less than an hour and a half (76 minutes, to be precise) are spent at or above LTHR and the bulk of the rest of the time is "endurance miles". It's not all that different from going out for a long steady distance ride a couple of time a week but including some hills in which one goes hard. Hills and rolling terrain is nature's way of making me do intervals...
Yep, more or less also comes close to paralleling Lon Haldeman's one point training plan of attempting to spend 1 hour per week at or exceeding 90% of max HR.
But, the thing I was poorly attempting to point out to Vesteroid and others was, that to achieve that time at or above threshold one needs to be targeting intervals during the at least two workouts per week. The remaining recovery time between intervals in addition to a weekend ride or two provides below threshold mileage without the need to schedule mid week sub threshold rides. 1/2 to 2/3 of your rides end up being "labelled" interval rides, even though those intervals don't equate to that much time above threshold.
Time for bed.