I'll assume that question was aimed at me. I rode the Six Gap Century last year and survived it, but felt more like it conquered me than the other way around. I had hoped to do that 'better' this year. But I don't see how an event like this


is going to happen in 5 months.

As several have pointed out what I am now doing 'is working'. OTOH, I would benefit (on a daily basis just in doing life tasks) from some general strength work. Just have to make a decision.

Ogsarg's 'view from the doctor's perspective' was interesting. My doctor has been seeing me for 20 years now. When we started I was still working and my conditioning was kind of 'typical guy in the street' level. Then when I retired I did just enough running to keep an Irish Water Spaniel (with no ready water access) content (back when my knees were younger I was running 2500 miles/year). Then all activity resembling exercise stopped for 6-7 years and I ended up weighing 50'ish pounds more than I do now. Got back on the bike in 2014 and been riding at my current level (not instantly, of course) since then. The only other biking that I had ever done was a couple years in the mid 90's out in the Bay Area of California (OK, calling Livermore 'the Bay Area' is a stretch).

So my doctor has seen me in all 3 of those different 'conditions'. And that probably does influence his answer to my question.

dave