Originally Posted by goaliedad30
While I get the senitment, 30,000 miles a year is 100 miles per day x 300 riding days per year. That's 6 days a week, every week, all year. Perhaps a slight exaggeration?
I just read a thread about Ekimov and his 40K/year training. He does want to do it for a living, after all...
A little more lenient, TrainingPeaks.com tells me that to be a pro racer you should expect to train about 1200 hours/year, which is 3 1/2 hours a day assuming you train EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE YEAR.