Originally Posted by
MonsieurChrono
I think that the answer is in the original post: "only short indoor climbs at high zone 2 / low zone 3 pace" (I replaced long with short because it was mentioned later that rides are less than 3 hours).
I wrote "long" because I'm doing single constant climbs of 1.5-3 hours (def. an HC climb). Steady climbing stress, as opposed to short climb-recover-repeat sessions (which I was doing last year).
Maybe that doesn't meet someone's definition of a long
ride.