Originally Posted by Carbonfiberboy

On our tandem, my wife can't stay out of the saddle long enough to suit me, though she's gotten much better. I've never been able to figure out why. After reading that excerpt from TD's book, maybe it's core. We'll pay special attention to our cores during this winter's weight program and see if that helps. I'm a believer in experimenting. Experimenting on your wife can be fun.

BTW, my usual weight workout is about 22 minutes twice a week. The core work will make it quite a bit longer, too bad. There is absolutely no evidence that conventional weight training makes any difference for an endurance athlete. High rep explosive work has been shown to be effective however. Whether it's more effective than the equivalent time on the bike has not been shown. However, it's hard to see how another 22 minutes on the bike twice a week will do much.

Another BTW, passing another rider doesn't mean anything. We will go out for a 4 hour ride and have an average 108 HR. Or a 120 HR. Or a 135 HR and we will chase you down, arrgghh. Depends on what that training ride is supposed to do for us. Tri geeks are pretty good about following a training schedule. They have to be.