Am I riding too much?

Hi all. Been riding for a month now, trying to get fit, but need to know if I'm doing more harm than good?
I started off riding about 5 miles every night for a week, then stepped it up to just over 6 miles for the next week, then 8 for the next & now I'm doing just over 10 miles every night except Tuesday, when I go out across the plains with my local bike club. Last night we did 25 miles & I'm cream crakered now. What's the best way to play this? Should I be riding every night, or should I be taking a night off every now & then, letting my body recover? I was thinking about jogging alternate nights instead of riding 7 days a week.
Advice & experience greatly received.
Cheers,
Gwaredd.
I started off riding about 5 miles every night for a week, then stepped it up to just over 6 miles for the next week, then 8 for the next & now I'm doing just over 10 miles every night except Tuesday, when I go out across the plains with my local bike club. Last night we did 25 miles & I'm cream crakered now. What's the best way to play this? Should I be riding every night, or should I be taking a night off every now & then, letting my body recover? I was thinking about jogging alternate nights instead of riding 7 days a week.
Advice & experience greatly received.
Cheers,
Gwaredd.
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I used to ride for just over an hour 6 days a week, now I do 3/4 max but go out for around 2/3 hours. I'm probably doing the same tijme on the bike - just differently.
Distance can be misleading - if I do the more technical stuff I may only do 10 to 15 miles. On firetrack / bridleway I would do 25+.
Anyway, the "getting out" and "getting back in" stuff is what ads to the total ride time, so less rides give you more time (if that makes sense :roll: )
Mike
If you were at the gym everyday before then i suppose your just carrying it on.
But if you did hardly any excersise before buying the bike, i'd be careful you could do yourself some real damage pushing yourself like that, i usually ride every 2nd day & take 1 day between to rest muscles.
It's improtant to let your body rest as your muscles need an oppotunity to relax.
you will end up burning yourself out...
they say that to gain fitness you should excercise 3 times a week for around 45 mins..
i would defo do one day on and one day off.. that way you are giving your body chance to recover..
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If you feel really tired then listen to your body and give it a rest for a day or so and you'll come back stronger.
Diet plays a big factor too obviously
Omega 3 oil is very important and is found in fish predominantly - tins of mackeral (princes spicy tomatoe is really quite good actually), fresh salmon that sort of thing.
The fish intake is key for both protein and om. 3 as it will provide your muscles with the extra they need to recover but also gain strength (not size) which in turn will push better stamina as time goes on. Baked beans and a spud is an ideal before ride meal as they are slow energy release, as are bananas which are handy to have with you for mid run snack.
What i did when i did running is on weekdays go running for aout 20mins and on weekends go biking!
hope thats helped
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