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Yes, I think so. I never looked at those figures before, but do a 400km and spend 18-20+ hours on the bike, burn 12,000 calories - takes a lot of pyramid intervals or even 100 mile TTs to burn as much.
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That's true. But do 18-20 hours and how many days do you need off to recover? So if you look at overall load over a unit time frame (1 week, 1 month). I'd think by riding frequently (every day), versus one big ride a week, you'd get more load.
Though, with a job, or young kid, obviously it's not possible to do 4-6h a day everyday.
But then again, TCR isn't one 20h ride a week, it's 9+ days of sustained long rides. So riding every day and decent rides, is good preparation. Building accumulated fatigue over multiple days.
I'd like to do more, but I can't. I can't bring a high enough overall load with me from Jan-June, in order to then do solid 25-30h weeks in june. So I have to settle for 20h hard weeks, or I'll end up in a hole.
Check out Christof Strasser on facebook, he posts about how he trains, it's similar to I. I don't have facebook or I'd post.
skinny
But overall, say weekly, monthly. It’s still higher over the time period when you do longer rides?