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Cheers, sounds sort of what I was thinking of - only been doing indoor riding since start of December (a sufferfest road training plan) & found it ok, took my mtb out at the weekend on a local loop & felt pretty fresh - i'm definitely fitter than I usually am after the winter, just want to try & keep that up as I don't really push myself when i'm out on the road.
@Acliff - yeah, treating it like a dedicated training session once, maybe twice per week is what i'm looking at, I work Mon-Thurs and usually cycle in 3 days per week on average - it's a 35 mile round trip so that provides a good amount of low/medium intensity stuff, so it's good training for long steady rides but if I try to push on a bit, or even a couple of sharp digs on hills i'm done fairly quickly.
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If you have the inclination is good to do 1 or two high intensity intervals on the turbo a week and fill all the zone 2 stuff with outside rides.
I'm not serious or organized about training. I use the commutes as recovery/zone 2, not long enough for anything else. I do longer, tempo intensity commutes when weather and legs allow, hilly long rides when I can.
I always try to fit a VO2 session a week on the trainer, maybe more stuff at different intensities if I'm not riding out much