Krank wrote:Thanks Zero - Interesting reading.
OK - Report Out Time (just returned from my 100km ride)
First up = I am in and have been in agony for the last 2 hours due to severe body soreness, back, numb hands. My bike is now unrideable until I rectify the fitment setup.
Second - I tries those interval speed regimes, and found it was a very different riding technique to what I normally ride, I was able to hold speed until the pain in my body set in real bad, and it was just a case of limping home in survival mode...
Don't bonk out in training rides imo.
Honestly if you want to do intervals, make it the focus of an hours riding, (ie warmup + 2x20 or warmup + 5x7) and then call it quits for the session. Hurting for me is running out of aerobic capacity towards the end of the effort, or legs unable to keep pushing so the average falls away. They aren't particularly sore, there is no joint pain, and nothing is numb, and my body isn't drained of resources by the effort to the extent that I go backwards instead of forwards.
After a 10 minute breather I can maintain usual cruising speed going home (because I am bike commuter, I need to ride back home again after finding somewhere trafficless to train), but I'd certainly warm down and stop after an interval.