Originally Posted by
bikinpolitico
Sounds like he wants to ride faster. He can get faster with a bunch of junk miles or haphazard training, but if he wants to get faster in the least amount of time, LT workouts are going to be the way to go. Is that going to be easy? No. Will it make you faster in a short period of time? Yes. You don't get faster without work.
I don't consider my long, moderate rides 'junk' miles. I consider them fun. My whole point, though, was that someone who is riding at 11mph has probably not been training much and telling him/her to do LT workouts is not very practical unless he works up to that point through more gentle training.
Just didn't explain myself well.