Many years ago, I rode with my team three nights a week and raced on the weekends. If there was no races, then I rode those days with the team, also. We had a great time and we were fast, but our racing results were minimal. I was a Cat 4 at the time and I finally decided to only train with the team one night a week, two at the most, and do my own thing the rest of the time. My results improved dramatically and I was a Cat 2 within a couple years. The biggest thing that I noticed that was our Tuesday night rides seemed to be a self-flagelation type thing as penance for the poor weekend results, when we should have been resting more.
Then again, we were self-coached and we needed somebody to give us structure or focus like the previous poster mentions.
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