Originally Posted by
caloso
Yeah, I actually have a TT bike that I built up with the idea of doing a stage race and maybe one or two standalone TT's. 10 miles seems like a traditional distance, but 1 is an interesting distance. Certainly not a sprint, but very short for a TT. Seems much more like a track distance.
I do 1 and 2 minute intervals all the time, particularly as we move into spring crit season, but I always do them by time, not distance.
You should try a measured mile for time from a full power standing start. I think you will be amazed how hard it is and the standing start takes a lot of energy. When you have a distance objective coupled with the shortest time possible, it is substantially different from doing 2 minute efforts. When I do 1 or 2 minute efforts, I usually do more than one and that by definition means I will measure the first one and take a shorter recovery period versus max out the first one and then hang out for 20 minutes trying to recover while I cough my head off.