How Many Miles do You Cycle?
One of the most frequent questions I get asked is how many miles do you cycle? When I first got back into cycling in 2003/2004, I didn’t used to race, I just cycled for the fun of it. Part of the fun was cycling all day – 100-150 miles in the Cotswolds or Yorkshire Dales. I remember one day cycling to Cambridge and back 180 miles in the middle of winter. This gave big weekly mileages of perhaps 300 miles a week. I would regularly churn out 1,000 plus miles a month. It was great, the only target was miles and I would diligently note down every mile cycled in my notebook. When I started racing, I found mileage would go down. Churning out the miles doesn’t necessarily make you go faster. If you train at a high intensity, you need more rest and recovery and so doing big mileages can be counter-productive. One of the drawbacks of a busy racing schedule, is that I don’t make so much time for long easy century rides. A typical week this season has been Sat: 10 mile TT Sun 25 mile TT Mon rest Tues 70 miles hard with hill intervals [...]
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