Originally Posted by
Classtime
With a training plan, there are no just going for a ride days unless that day is a recovery ride day and you have the discipline to keep your HR low.
Agree!
In that I'm older now (by a considerable number of years) than when I first started biking, there's
so much more to it now than what I'd been exposed to back then, there's a lot of 'catch up' going on.
One of my goals this year is to look into training programs that don't require another human given the constraints of schedules and weather. Winter riding, done strictly on a wheel-on trainer despite (or because of?) the weather outside, is new to me.
This time of year it's the outside on a bike I look forward to, yet work schedule, weather, family, home maintenance, and any as yet 'unknown knowns' that might crop up tend to steal priority. Last summer it was a plantar wart on a toe on my left foot. Treatment, though successful, was almost worse than the affliction. This year even weather can see me back on trainer as required.
I welcome suggestions from the group here for programs worth looking into, maybe some that focus on those > 50?