hours or miles?

nitrogenmustard said:

do you guys keep track of your training in hours or miles (kilos for some)

-nitro

Your body doesnt remeber miles its remembers hours and intensity. i have always trained on hours in the saddle rather than the miles completed. Worked for me

frico said:

I use miles but also record the other factors (time, weather, general feeling that day). I used to keep my own spreadsheet but have switched over to this great site BikeJournal . It is highly customizable (is that a word?) and also lets you export to an Excel file if you want.

Enjoy.

frico

great website also check out Polar's webite

I normally just keep track of hours and glance at my mileage for the day\week. As another poster mentioned, I don't think my body knows mileage, but it does know I've been in the saddle for four hours.

nitrogenmustard said:

do you guys keep track of your training in hours or miles (kilos for some)

-nitro

All I'm interested in is [censored] - Time In The Saddle.

I used to think only of training in distances. An average weeks training would be 300kms.
Now I think in heart rate and hours. 2 hours @ 50% , 1 hour @ 75% , 15mins flat stick etc. Average weeks training would be 9-10 hours at various heart rates. 7-8 hours of cruisin and 2-3 hours sprinting.

nitrogenmustard said:

do you guys keep track of your training in hours or miles (kilos for some)

-nitro

I ride both it's all in how much time I have and what kind of ride I am doing,
(Long distance or daily exercise.😄

for me time is the main constraint...the roads go on for miles and miles..

i usually only have 2 hours or so in which to ride to i get as much in as the time allows.

i always aim for a "Gilligan", a three hour tour.

nitrogenmustard said:

do you guys keep track of your training in hours or miles (kilos for some)

-nitro

Seems to me, as long as you put in the hours, the miles will take care of themselves.

Living in Western Mass, I have too much route variability in regards to milage.

One day I can be day-touring down the Connecticut valley at a 18mph pace, and the next tackling the 15-20% grades of the Minnechaug. The funny thing is about "hills" in the East - they may be short, but they're BRUTAL compared to the riding I've done out west. They don't seem to understand switchbacks in these parts.

It's UP AND OVER 'round here.

My training objectuves are always described in hours 2x20 intervals 5x5 intervals 4 hour endurance ride with at least hour of tempo. Distance is really just an afterthought. I track it because I like to know how far I went. And it helps to provide a metric I can measure. But in terms of training objectives they are almost always time.

MountainPro said:

for me time is the main constraint...the roads go on for miles and miles..

i usually only have 2 hours or so in which to ride to i get as much in as the time allows.

I'm the same. I have very limited time available. I was recording distance, but my bike computer sucked the big kumera and there aren't any bike shops in this part of Borneo that carry replacements, so I just keep track of my time on the bike and expect myself to keep the intensity level up. I also keep track of how many beers I drink - anything over 6 doesn't count, and nor does gin & tonic (keep the malaria at bay).