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Old 05-19-24 | 08:55 AM
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Bikes: CoMo Speedster 2003, Trek 5200, CAAD 9, Fred 2004

For the past ~25 years, my weeks have been rigidly fixed around the sacred Sunday group ride for which I am the route master. And those rides are in turn focused around a couple annual event rides, so there's a year-long cycle of prepping for same. That gives focus to one's riding life. I also have a year-long cycle associated with hiking, where my wife and I prep for our annual 10-day backpack in the Cascades. That hiking cycle has been closely associated with the riding cycle. The two activities reinforce each other and having a year-long cycle keeps things from getting boring and possibly prevents overtraining. Weight training is also part of that cycle. We move through the various gym modalities as the year progresses. Hiking turns into skiing and snowshoeing in winter.

Since the group ride is always going to have a good dose of intensity, during the week I try to get in a couple hour or so Z2 rides and those two gym days, which becomes 1 gym day on the first of April as the riding and hiking stresses increase with spring. Thus there are two rest days and the group ride takes case of all the weekly intensity.

Sunday - group ride.
Monday - hike (when we were working, work was Tuesday through Saturday)
Tuesday - gym in winter, rest in summer
Wednesday - Z2 for me, dressage for my wife
Thursday - gym
Friday - Z2
Saturday - rest
In winter or when the weather is inclement, the Z2 rides are indoors. We rode rain or shine on Sunday until we were about 70 when the group put a stop to that. Since then we've done intervals indoors on Sunday if the weather was bad. Sometimes it's a group sufferfest.

When it's not butt-freezing cold or raining, in spring some of those Z2 rides become Z2 walks in our local city hilly terrain, no traffic lights. Walking helps prevent back issues associated with only cycling. If we walk fast enough, my wife can hit Z2 on the flat but I'm stuck in Z1, fine..
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