Originally Posted by
Carbonfiberboy
Almost but not quite lol. You got problems we'd all like to have. "would like to go faster:" wouldn't we all.
You know, what I'd do is add base. What you get out of intervals goes away pretty fast. What you get out of base stays all your life. IOW, go for the hours on the bike. A great thing is to go out hard the first day for say 4 hours. The next day, go out easy for that same 4 hours. I mean really easy. Gear way down on the hills, below the leg strain level. Legs permitting, the next day do some cadence or one-legged pedaling drills, nothing very long. That's potentially 9 hours/week right there. A 400 hour year is good.
Ha, when I first started cycling I didn't try to get faster, I just tried to go farther without getting hurt. So I was thinking how about maybe now
trying to get faster and seeing what happened. But I like what I've been doing, the long rides and the hills, and I'd be perfectly happy just doing that. I do worry about riding the century at something like 12 mph and being on the bike for 10 hours, though, that seems brutal.
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