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Everyone suggesting shorter rides in order to make long rides faster?
The principal of specificity disagrees.
Do longer rides, but set time goals or something similar to push yourself to do them faster.Doing short rides is easy and sure if you do them quick you'll probably go faster during your audaxes but doing longer rides in training makes the longer audaxes seem easy as you know you can do the distance, you become more efficient bio-mechanically and with regard to training effect, blood volume, fuel burning, etc. You also learn more about what to fuel with, sort out niggling issues, pack better, etc.
It also depends on what you want out of it. Some people like spending a good time sitting down at controls and riding quick in between. It depends on how much time you can give to the sport - you might only be able to fit in short stuff but the longer stuff done faster is more useful I believe.
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Thank you all.
I think that you are all right and that basically mostly shorter, harder rides with occasional lingers (which are probably often the audaxes themselves).. My standard commute is 20 miles/day, but it is easy to let that descend to just a trudge that doesn't help much at all. I think I will continue to try and put some efforts into my commute, continue with the TTs and the trips out with the club. I think I will also try and extend the club rides to be 160 km so I get to see that as a "normal" ride.
And I'll put more effort into riding in groups on the audaxes.