This months Mag

SteveR_100Milers

has a feature about time trialing, and has a section from Joe Beer about training. Suggests a series of workouts at 75-82% MHR, based around road riding (so includes sprints up hills etc). The effort level seemed a bit low to me...? 2x20 at 75%+ isnt THAT hard...its when you try and do it at 82% it hurts.....

Alex_Simmons/RST

SteveR_100Milers wrote:

has a feature about time trialing, and has a section from Joe Beer about training. Suggests a series of workouts at 75-82% MHR, based around road riding (so includes sprints up hills etc). The effort level seemed a bit low to me...? 2x20 at 75%+ isnt THAT hard...its when you try and do it at 82% it hurts.....

Sound like Beer intervals to me

BeaconRuth

SteveR_100Milers wrote:

2x20 ...........when you try and do it at 82% it hurts.....

:shock: You must have a very low pain threshold. I know HR isn't the best for judging effort but most people could sustain 82%maxHR or thereabouts for 20mins without feeling they were going through the pain barrier. You're in the middle of Peter Keen's level 2 - tempo kind of pace, that's all.

Ruth

Ric_Stern/RST

i agree. I can probably ride for more than several hours at ~ 80% HRmax.

Ric

SteveR_100Milers

BeaconRuth wrote:

SteveR_100Milers wrote:

2x20 ...........when you try and do it at 82% it hurts.....

:shock: You must have a very low pain threshold. I know HR isn't the best for judging effort but most people could sustain 82%maxHR or thereabouts for 20mins without feeling they were going through the pain barrier. You're in the middle of Peter Keen's level 2 - tempo kind of pace, that's all.

Ruth

YThinking about it, you are right to a degree - my 10TT pace is about 88%-90% as measured using my numbers, and thats about 8/9 RPE. I rode up the 2 long climbs in the Dragon today at around 86%-88% and that wasn't what I would describe as remotely close to tempo.