From the Columbia - HTC website. Each athlete trains and races nearly 275 days each year, logging 1,400 hours and 20,000km (12,000 miles) annually.
That is five hours a day for 275 days folks. Where are you going to live to be able to train at this volume for 275 of 365? Enter the concept of Indoor Training.
You can do this at home. Wherever you happen to live, work and play,
IF YOU HAVE THE DESIRE.
This, again, is the standard at the elite level. For the sake of comparison, let's take some other guidelines. The .gov tell us that to be fit we need to exercise 60 minutes a day. That is one fifth what pro riders do. So could we split-the-difference-hypothisize that if we put in 2.5 hours per day it would get us to the age group podium? Hummm.
Ouch, that is a lot of saddle time. Anybody wanna try with me and see?
First, we'd bite size it. Do a week of 2.5. That is 17.5 hours (at avg of 20mph) and gets us a robust 700 miles (697.5). Then we'd take three days off to recover and rebuild. Once we have adapted to THAT load we'll set our goals on a month. 70 hours, 2,800 miles. And on ya go. WOW. No wonder those guys can crank the speeds and distances they do. The work is in the bank.
And please do not say that the pee is in the lab. This has nothing to do with dope. It is all about training.
November 1, maybe?
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