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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
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Subject: Re: Cycling workouts defined
Date: 28 Jan 2025 21:49:11 GMT
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Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from 
> https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/cycling-interval-sessions-hurt-but-youll-find-all-the-people-who-want-to-kill-you-with-their-car-in-the-gym
> 
> Long Ride.....“Long” can mean absolutely anything you like, but if it’s 
> less than around 45 minutes, you’ll want to lie about it to other 
> riders....can give the impression to the rest of your family that you 
> might just be having fun with your friends.
> 
> The Sweetspot/Easy Tempo....Not too hard, not too long, and with 
> substantial, if nebulous, fitness benefits promised....But, curiously, 
> only the first time you do it. Second time, even if it’s exactly the 
> same ride, it will feel as if it lasts for ever. If you keep doing it, 
> it will only get worse.
> 
> The Threshold Session....A boxer trying to come up with the equivalent 
> would just punch themselves in the face for 40 minutes....mostly what 
> they do is make you smell too bad to be allowed in the cafe. Most 
> coaches only prescribe the session to promote “psychological 
> resilience”. This just means that they’ve come to really hate you.
> 
> The Long Interval Session...A bit like the threshold session in that 
> you’ll hate it and keep hating it. It has the added bonus that after 
> you’ve discovered how unhappy the first effort makes you, you’ll know 
> what you’re going to get in the rest of them.
> 
> The Short Interval Session....Only after several minutes will the full 
> crescendo of horror reveal itself.....the short interval session has an 
> autoamnesia function. You can never remember how terrible they are 
> afterwards, probably due to a lack of oxygen to the brain.
> 
> Finally, there is The Gym. This is unpleasant because of one thing: 
> people. It turns out that all the people who want to kill you with their 
> car are on their way to the gym. In this environment they are, if 
> anything, even less lovable than they are on the open road.
> 
> 
I don’t do workouts my fitness is a by product of my enjoyment of cycling,
I’m generally not interested in times up for example a road climb, but
enjoy technical climbs which tend to be less about the time more if one can
do it feet up!

Roger Merriman