I have a buddy I ride with that crushes me. He rode over 11,000 miles last year. I asked him the other day when he is just cruising along at his normal pace, 23-24mph on the flats what his HR is? 120bpm. He is the epitome of this type of training. He goes at that pace all day long without thinking about it. That is my goal!!! I am getting much closer to him in just this past month and a half.
That's my dream. I have 10,000 kilometers in my legs from the past couple of years, and I want to ramp up the volume. But when it keeps alternating between snow and frozen sleet and it's 2 degrees outside, it makes it very hard to do the sort of fun long rides that I love.
Soon. Soon.