I have been training for a half IM and one of my problems is that in
the spring it is rare that I have a chance to do a bike ride of 2hrs
or more. With runnng I can actually do a long run at night of about
1.5hrs. Now that is is summer, I feel like I have sort of run my
cycling body down from doing short high intensity rides. I have been
doing 27mi at about 23mph and 160bpm but it seems like I am not
improving even though I have averaged 2+ that speed before.
I have taken almost a week off now just because of schedule and heavy
legs.
I am wondering it is because of lack of base has finally caught up
with me.
Also, I am trying to plan winter program so I will not start out so
far behind next spring. Is 1.5 -2hrs on a trainer good enough to build
that in winter if I can do maybe a ride on mountain bike on the
weekends?
Thanks
Matt P