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You've done big races before though so other than missing a bit of butt hardening there's not likely to be a big disadvantage when training this way? It'd be cool to just to tabata or something silly only and see how an ultra race goes
Sure, someone who is not used to long rides needs to do long rides. Not doing them might not work for me: I've only done one 200km this year and I suffered, both back and motivation.
Also I'm missing out on trying out stuff like new lights and different luggage setups. Those things will need to be tried so I will throw in a night ride or two later on.
But I reckon there is value in training what you've not previously trained for. I've hardly ever done any speed/threshold stuff so reckon I should get a reasonable improvement from modest investment there, compared to the benefit I would get from doing more 3/400km rides.
If I focused on crits and 10-mile TTs I'd be inclined to throw in more long rides.
If I was Steve Abraham maybe tabata would be the thing.
frank9755-
I was racing and PBing TTs before the 2016 TCR.
I did no other racing in 2017 - just the TransAm and TCR
This year I'm doing 25s trying to beat my PB and have done fuck all miles. I'm probably going to flip out, play catch up and dig myself into a hole.
If I go better or worse though it'd be hard to distinguish physical performance from mental. If I go better it could just be experience vs. if I go worse, maybe the lack of miles did make a difference or maybe something else went wrong. Dunno yet.
hippy
You've done big races before though so other than missing a bit of butt hardening there's not likely to be a big disadvantage when training this way? It'd be cool to just to tabata or something silly only and see how an ultra race goes.