Originally Posted by
Sito
He, thanks for the advice! I don't really schedule light weeks but I am a freelancer with quite a workload variation between weeks, so light weeks do happen, they are just not planned ahead. I might do 15 hours one week, 10 hours the next and 5 hours after that, but a "normal" week is probably 10+ hours.
My work schedule probably allows me to do more riding than an office job (because I can go out for a ride on the morning and then work late at night) but the workload varies so much and unpredictably that it's really difficult to follow a strcutzred training plan.
Thanks to everybody else who has replied as well!
Just remember, light means intensity as well as volume - as long as those 5 hours on your light week are lower intensity you're meeting the intent. With your variable schedule, I'd suggest tracking and make sure you aren't going much over 4 weeks without a light week. I know a few cyclists that have dug nice holes for themselves overtraining and lost quite a bit of fitness with time off recovering.