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do lots of the kind of riding I like to do
Bingo. That's it. If you enjoy it, you're happy and love it. I like to train hard miles, racing etc. so that's what I do. I don't like doing long rides often, they're boring and I'm busy.
And your body is adjusting to a higher training load. It's like pro cyclists say they need a grand tour a year in their legs. It makes you stronger.
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Tho is the higher training load all there is, or can I for example train my metabolism to be more efficient for ultras by doing lots of really long rides, and would that have any meaningful effect in performance. Does it matter how you make that load high.
Indeed training in a way you enjoy is most important. As it is in the way you race too.
Samuli
Just read this as I just came back from the woods and am reading through the internet now. This article is interesting. I think I have read this before. But reading things like this leaves me wondering what other aspects there are to be trained, that are not measured with the these numbers.
For example, and this doesn't prove anything, I had been cycling for several years before my first brevet. I was in decent shape, had done a few road races too and didn't suck at it too much. But after(/towards the end of) the first brevets, I was pretty broken. After a season of those, they became a lot easier and faster and I didn't need as much time to recover and didn't need to eat as much or frequently. And today it's even easier than it was during that second summer, something has changed/is changing.
But yeah I haven't read too much about this and my method basically is to do lots of the kind of riding I like to do. While I enjoy riding fast and hard, I don't really like road racing kind of cycling.