Transcontinental Race No. 6 - TCR6 - #TCRN06 - 2018

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.

Sure, but that is a different scenario. That sounds like what pros do. In my world, shorter rides every day is 1-2 hours, basically commuting with some extra loops and finding quieter roads (or towpaths) where I can do intervals, and topping up with 100km every other weekend.

Doing that, I get much lower TSS than audaxing.

What does Kristof do? He posts quite a bit about long rides.

Jesse and Sarah post about long rides a fair bit.

Chatting to Mike before Indypac last year he said he'd not done long rides (probably because winter) but had focused on strength by doing lots of hill repeats in high gears.