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Great - that's all I was after, haha! Is there a minimum time at which riding fasted becomes effective?
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No idea. I always have around two hours from waking before I have breakfast but I doubt I get any benefit from it when all I do is the 20 minute cycle from the train station.
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I remember reading 60-90min but that was years ago and much more study has been done and this was likely in relation to fat:cho ratios not fat oxidization improvements that everyone craps on about these days.
What racing are you doing? I can understand people trying to improve their fat ox if they are racing ultras but you are doing Vo2s which means you're not training for ultras. So?
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If you're only doing an hour there's no benefit to doing them fasted. You just won't be able to train hard enough.