[adamthekiwi]

Hi folks,

I’m after some pearls of wisdom on training…

I’m riding the Prudential RideLondon on the 31st, and then the Tour o’the Borders 6 days later. I’m fairly comfortable with the distances (Saturday’s training ride was 128km with 2300m of climbing) but I’m quite keen to try to improve my speed. I’m broadly working on the second half of the British Cycling Foundation training plan but I have a fairly big spanner in the works: work are sending me to India for 3 weeks on 19th June, back on the 9th July. That’s a fairly critical 3 week chunk out of my training, and I don’t yet know if I’m going to be able to take a bike with me. Any suggestions?

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[CXR94Di2]

Static exercise bike or
Static exercise bike or borrow a bike. You don’t need to ride for hours once you have a good base fitness. One hour tempo or 20-30mins of high intensity intervals, ride 3 time’s a week will keep virtually all your fitness. I only needed two longer rides after a holiday to do a 100mile ride. I did 3 sessions of tempo riding whilst on holiday and I was fine.

[adamthekiwi]

Thanks fustuarium. That’s

Thanks fustuarium. That’s mostly where I’m at – maintenance through that period on a static bike (here’s hoping I’m in a hotel with a gym).

I may try to borrow a hard case and take my mountainbike – it looks like there is some nice off-road riding around the outskirts of the city (Pune)…

[fustuarium]

Funnily enough I’m just
Funnily enough I’m just listening to some TrainerRoad Podcasts I missed. Episode 1 touches on this a fair few times during the hour. Have a listen. Essentially they seem to say intensity twice a week should be good enough for maintenance. You just need to find something to do that on! I guess any bike (I.e. gym static ones) is better than nothing.

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