Ignore your teeth and they will go away.
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Originally Posted by Iride01
(Post 22102037)
I'd tend to think if you eat more because of that longer ride, then you probably are having to put out too much effort currently to do those longer rides.
Originally Posted by terrymorse
(Post 22102129)
I can't see that how hungry you are is a good measure of the training effect of a ride.
Originally Posted by Iride01
(Post 22102148)
How do you get the idea I'm talking about training effect from that?
"fitness" -- not "diet" or "weight loss". Is the OP seeking advice on how to lose weight? I may have missed that. If so, is your advice then: "Better not ride hard or long, or you might get hungry and eat too much"? |
Originally Posted by Iride01
(Post 22102037)
Don't use we in your next title please.
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Originally Posted by livedarklions
(Post 22102130)
That's actually my point-- "training for a ride" seems to confuse an approach to one kind of goal (competitive racing) with a different kind (non-competitive distance riding).
You don't train to take a long walk or jog 10 miles. It just seems obvious to me that the way you get ready to do a 100 mile ride isn't by "training" per se, but rather by increasing the distance you ride. So doing a bunch of 50 mile rides to "train" for a100 seems dubious on its face. On the other hand, incrementally working up to 100 miles over a series of rides would make sense to me, but each one of those shorter than 100 mile rides is also a ride, so I think it's kind of silly to call them training sessions. |
once you've exhausted all your tubes & spent all your water for the ride, it's no longer fit to ride.
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Originally Posted by Iride01
(Post 22102148)
How do you get the idea I'm talking about training effect from that? I'm not taking training effect into consideration at all.
I was just giving the OP a possible reason why they feel they eat more on long rides. On my long rides, I've never felt overly hungry afterwards. It is my short very hard rides that I tend to eat large amounts of food for a time afterward. I think you're assuming you are the norm here. This is a classic ymmv situation. |
Originally Posted by genejockey
(Post 22102172)
Well, the more 50 mile rides you do, the easier they become, the faster you go, etc. And the routes you ride can be chosen to build up, for example, your climbing ability. When I was building up for the one Century I've ridden, yeah, I rode longer and longer distances, but I also threw in more climbs on Sunday long rides and hill intervals on weekday rides. It seems to me one can train for any athletic event, not just competitive events.
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Originally Posted by Troul
(Post 22102191)
once you've exhausted all your tubes & spent all your water for the ride, it's no longer fit to ride.
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Originally Posted by livedarklions
(Post 22102211)
I've had some rather unfortunate centuries where I actually had to stop and buy tubes more than once.
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Originally Posted by Cpn_Dunsel
(Post 22102159)
Ignore your teeth and they will go away.
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Originally Posted by livedarklions
(Post 22102211)
I've had some rather unfortunate centuries where I actually had to stop and buy tubes more than once.
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Originally Posted by Troul
(Post 22102217)
if i blow through the spares on-board, I'll take that as a sign & return to the duty station.
Things like that always occur on the return leg. Basically, it was then I learned my 23 year old wheel was not salvageable. |
Originally Posted by Koyote
(Post 22102222)
They make these things called 'patch kits.'
The wheel was mysteriously causing the flats. It also was snapping spokes right and left and going out of true right after being trued. |
You don't train for a marathon by running a marathon every day.
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Originally Posted by Koyote
(Post 22102221)
Where were you when I was ten years old and pouring sugar all over my frosted flakes?
The guy who used to voice Tony the Tiger sang “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.” |
Originally Posted by skidder
(Post 22102332)
You don't train for a marathon by running a marathon every day.
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Bicycling on-line suggests the training plan I successfully used for my first century many moons ago, https://www.bicycling.com/training/a...ide-a-century/
OP, it depends on so many different variables it would be hard to quantify. Age, aerobic capacity, starting level of fitness, do other endurance sports (like running), ratio of fast to slow twitch muscles, internal drive, ability to endure discomfort, and on and on. Grand Tour riders supposedly get stronger the further they get into the event but don’t know how that can be quantified. Physiology, mental toughness and training are keys in endurance sports. There must be an article somewhere on the maximum stress an average body can endure on a reoccurring basis before going downhill. |
Originally Posted by skidder
(Post 22102332)
You don't train for a marathon by running a marathon every day.
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Originally Posted by DreamRider85
(Post 22101745)
If you are training for 100 miles, would you say it's better to do 50 + miles consistently than to just do one very long ride close to 100 miles, but less often?
I only mentioned 50+ mile rides because that's about the minimum distance you should be able to comfortably achieve before attempting your first 100 mile ride. If say you were training for your first 100 mile event (race, joyride, whatever) it would be advisable to complete at least one 75 mile ride beforehand. But you don't have to do countless high mileage rides - that would be inefficient. For example I do maybe half a dozen 100 mile events per season and will do maybe half a dozen 50 mile training rides and a few 75 mile rides and maybe one 100 mile training ride in the lead up to my first event. |
Originally Posted by livedarklions
(Post 22101794)
I'm not sure what "training" for a ride means. I understand what training for a race means, but I would think the best way to prepare for a ride of 100 miles is to ride 100 miles. I find the more long rides I do, the easier they get, but I'm not sure that if I wasn't largely limited to 25 mile rides during the work week, that I'd be as able to recover from my Saturday century as well as I do.
There's definitely a point of distance and frequency where the damage you're doing to the muscles day to day by the overuse overwhelms your body's ability to repair the damage--in other words, overtraining is a real thing. So the best way to prepare for a 100 mile ride is just go out and ride 100 miles is it? Well that implies that you have already completed the necessary training to ride 100 miles. Nobody just gets on a bike and rides 100 miles without "training" for it in some form. The more accepted method is to gradually build up the length of your training rides to at least 70% of your target distance before attempting your final distance goal. (presuming that's what your goal actually is) |
Originally Posted by skidder
(Post 22102332)
You don't train for a marathon by running a marathon every day.
Also, there's no comparison between the amount of recovery needed after a marathon and that after a century. Even in racing, there's no runner's equivalent to a grand tour race, where they ride several centuries plus per week. I've never run a marathon, but I ride a century once a week at the age of 60, weather permitting. I don't know anyone who runs a 26.2 mile course every week. They're not equivalents. I won't go all Grant Peterson here and assert that calling this stuff training is ruining bicycling because, hey if it motivates you to ride more, call it whatever you like. Treating distance riding like it's a discipline would demotivate me, |
Originally Posted by DreamRider85
(Post 22101710)
What's your opinion? Is it 40? 50? 70? 100? I have done 60 miles recently and 70, but I don't feel like there are many other benefits once you get past 40 or 50. I could be wrong. Maybe it's different for everybody? With cycling, you can't really customize the intensity of your whole ride as easily due to stop signs, different road conditions, hills, downhills, etc... The benefit of cycling is that it's more fun so you do it more. But minute per minute, hour per hour, there are more challenging workouts. Now going up a big hill is really a tough workout, but not all routes are going to be the same.
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How far is up?
How long is a piece of string? How much do "we" weigh? How tall are "we"? What bike do "we" ride? What is "our" average speed? When are "we" supposed to wave? (I'd like unanswerable questions for $600 please, Alex.) |
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