Originally Posted by
Notso_fastLane
Care to share the changes in your diet? (Both the before and after.) I'd like to get some new legs too.
I've done fairly well, since my riding barely changed over the winter (finally got a great winter ride), but the hills are still a bear. Just trying to find ways to improve.
I have my 'all day pace' that I can literally maintain for 5-6 hours, but it's pretty slow. Trying to improve that baseline seems to be proving the most difficult. I have improved my short term power a little, which I notice when I go looking for hills, but I really want to increase my general pace.
Try “base miles”, good ole saddle time. Somewhere along the longer weekly rides you will encounter your hills, face demoralizing energy soaking headwinds and the almighty “wall”. When you spend a season on pressing through the barriers out there on the open road riding solo you will find the slow but welcomed increase of the average overall speeds on the flats.