Originally Posted by
defspace
Track cat1,2 guys (enduros)
What's your hourly weekly training load like? I know we don't need to train for 5 hour road races, but I wonder if that just means there's more time for intensity work.
Thanks
I did a summer on 4h a week (including 1.5h of racing a week)- did okay too. (Cat3 state champ, season-series champ in 2.25 weeks of racing, upgrade and was quick in the 1/2s & collegiate nats)
Full disclosure, going that hard in training and also racing (basically, ONLY high intensity efforts) on that little training (2103) burned me out so hard I still haven't gotten back on a bike in any meaningful way. There's been a bunch of other stuff going on in my life that has contributed to it, but bike racing got so un-fun trying to chase speed on kinda-no-time that I still struggle to associate the notion of "riding bikes" with "having fun."
dunno, it's doable in the right circumstances to be fast on small amounts of time.
I sure don't recommend it though, wish I would have done it differently.