tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677639734283270901.post2726375929417438041..comments2023-05-15T00:37:49.457-07:00Comments on Cadence Cycling & Multisport: Zen and the Art of the Endurance RideCADENCEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01405414031325651748noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677639734283270901.post-34755275089902616182008-01-06T15:14:00.000-08:002008-01-06T15:14:00.000-08:00Jason-Thanks for the great question. The reason fo...Jason-<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the great question. The reason for incrementally increasing the duration of your long rides is to allow your body to get used to the increasing intensity and duration of your workouts. The shorter rides are on rest weeks when the main priority is for your body to completely recover. If you were to continue doing 4 hour rides every week it would be of limited benefit (unless a lot of your races are 4 hours or more) and the risk would be that you would not recover enough to handle the intensity workouts. At best, this would mean that you wouldn't hit the numbers you should be hitting and in worst case you could get sick or injured.<BR/><BR/>As a matter of clarification here for anyone reading, although I believe that endurance riding serves a purpose and doing your endurance rides right is very important, I am by no means an advocate of doing no intensity work in the off-season. Every period has it's high intensity and low intensity workouts. The bottom line is that there is a purpose to every workout, be it VO2 max intervals, a long endurance ride, a hard group ride or an easy recovery ride. Understand what this purpose is and have the discipline top do what you are supposed to be doing!Colinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18145540105199771175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677639734283270901.post-42247277999633380712008-01-02T06:02:00.000-08:002008-01-02T06:02:00.000-08:00Colin.Thanks for the post. It’s very helpful to o...Colin.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the post. It’s very helpful to outline the purpose and focus of these rides, as opposed to 'just riding'.<BR/><BR/>Currently, my training schedule incrementally increases the length of endurance rides each week, going from (2)-(4) hrs, and then they drop back down to (2) hrs. Are there any advantages or disadvantages to doing constant (4) hr rides every week?<BR/><BR/><BR/>Thanks, <BR/>-JasonJae2029https://www.blogger.com/profile/05879626844920233132noreply@blogger.com