How much Training do You Guys Do?

CyclingObsession

Im curious to know how much training u do during the week or Daily?

phreak

I do 3 turbo sessions and 1 longer ride at the weekends. Usually adds up to around 300km a week.

ju5t1n

If you join the Bikeradar Strava group you'll be able to see other prople's activity. It's interesting.

I also started to 'follow' some of the other riders I race against regularly because I wanted to see how much training they did compared to me. We all do roughly the same amount (10-15 hours a week of training/racing).

danowat

On average, 12 hours a week

Tom Butcher

Couple of one hour chaingangs and a weekend ride of 60 miles plus or occasional road race - 6-7 hours a week, I do more if I have the time. Usually end up with close to 6k miles in a year.

okgo

danowat wrote:

On average, 12 hours a week

Same here.

CyclingObsession

How do you get these hours in? commuting?

t.m.h.n.e.t

I lose count between swimming cycling and running. It's many though!

styxd

I dont train for anything, but usually ride my bike somewhere around 12 hours per week.

glasgowbhoy

About 10-12 hours a week keeps me competitive in 2/3/4 and getting round in the bunch in E/1/2/3 races here.
* Although it's definitely about quality (and ample recovery) rather than just quantity during the race season.

ju5t1n

CyclingObsession wrote:

How do you get these hours in? commuting?

I had this conversation with a guy I work with the other day, as he was amazed at how much cycling I crammed into my week. But digging a bit deeper revealed the amount of time he spends watching movies, playing computer games and sitting in front of the television. I do none of these things.

phreak

Quite. The average person spends nearly 4 hours each day watching tv. Fitting in an hour or so each day to cycle becomes easy when you put it in those terms.

brettjmcc

phreak wrote:

Quite. The average person spends nearly 4 hours each day watching tv.

I look after my kids....

rozzer32

Again anywhere between 12-15 hours a week depending on what type of training block I'm doing. I do 5-6 days on the bike although normally one or two of those days are recovery rides. But like has been said it's the quality of the training you do, not the quantity.

okgo

CyclingObsession wrote:

How do you get these hours in? commuting?

Yep, easy commutes, and 2 x training rides in the week, then a long ride/race at the weekend. Maybe a club ten in there too judging by recent weeks.

Ideally it would be commutes, 1 midweek crit, 1 midweek training ride and then the weekend stuff.

I don't know if my legs could take more sadly, I've tried to up it, and it just ends up in me needing time off the bike as my legs are a wreck.

SBezza

Probably about a 10-12 hour week on average, but that includes racing as well. Quite easy to do normally, have done 3 hour rides after work occasionally, but doing 2 hours after work isn't too much of a hassle, or possibly doing split sessions at the beginning and end of the day.

Only more challenging when I start upping the hours in prep for a 12 hour, as it does mean alot of time away from home, or I try and coincide big weeks of training with time off work, and then I can go out during the day without any issues.

CyclingObsession

Id spend about the same on bike, I find I am more tired after I run at my lunch break than when I am cycling, I just dont enjoy running as much as cycling.

Tom Dean

Why do it?

poynedexter

i do 2 spin class sessions a week = 2hrs
on the bike about 6 hrs every other weekend
about 2 hrs every other week during the week.

so about 5- 6 hrs a week. each run would typically be 30- 60 miles with an odd 100 miler thrown in.

i have too many other things going on in life to do 12hrs a week. not only that but personally, i would get fed up with it. 6 hrs keeps it fresh and i work hard when i do.

having done a few club races now, rest off the bike seems as important as time on it.

(btw, its not about the bike! lance is right)

CyclingObsession

Tom Dean wrote:

Why do it?

I dont know why I keep trying t get out n run I used to like it was going to try an get into tri's but prob not if I don like running and thats where the race is usually won.

SteveR_100Milers

Strava informs me its 6hrs 45 mins. Seems a bit high to me, had large blocks of nothing this year. 2+ hour rides after work on your own take some mental discipline that's beyond me.....

dw300

SteveR_100Milers wrote:

Strava informs me its 6hrs 45 mins. Seems a bit high to me, had large blocks of nothing this year.

If you're looking at the stats on your profile page, that a last 28 day / 4 week rolling average.

TheEnglishman

I'm currently following this plan

http://www.bhf.org.uk/pdf/intermediate% ... hedule.pdf at the end of week 3.

and with work, commuting and domestic stuff I just couldn't do anymore.

Velonutter

Depending on the weather but anything from 8-14 hours.

dw300

I'm currently on a 4 week cycle of - 6, 8, 10, 12 hours. I increase volume or intensity each month (currently on my 3rd), but the first week allows for recovery from over-reaching on the final week. Seems to be working well, but could just be noob gains.

ShutUpLegs

1-2 hours interval training a week.
2-4 hours climbing rides
2-4 hours pootling/ strava segment hunting

Jez mon

Strava tells me 7 hours, into which I fit around 181 km. At the minute though, I'm not training for anything so it's mostly junk miles, with the occasional couple of intervals thrown in the middle of a ride to try and keep me competitive on the club run! To be honest, I'm not quite at the level of fitness which requires I do hard intense intervals to feel like I'm making progress, only started cycling again 2 months ago, after a lay off of almost 2 years!

However, I've only ridden an hour this week, due to injury...

bahzob

Question was how many "training" hours do you do?

Worth pointing out, especially given many of the threads on this forum and answers to this post that::

>>> Just riding a bike is not training.

It's possible to spend 50 hours a week riding a bike with not one minute's worth of useful training.

FWIW answer to the question is, like guy above I've just started training again after taking some time off and to ring the changes decided to train mainly through higher intensity.

Now average of 1.5 hours a day, 6 days a week, each session 20 mins or so warmup then hour or so averaging 80-90% threshold effort mainly through long threshold or short VO2 repeats. It's working pretty well so far, I've got back to around 95% of my previous best performance.

RoadMeridaBen

Im doing about 5-6 hours on average but thats during the race season, probably do 8-10 through the winter.
looks like most of you are flat out on the intervals, I havent done any this year just tempo riding and races.

Something to do next year though! :P

Soni

ju5t1n wrote:

If you join the Bikeradar Strava group you'll be able to see other prople's activity. It's interesting.

I also started to 'follow' some of the other riders I race against regularly because I wanted to see how much training they did compared to me. We all do roughly the same amount (10-15 hours a week of training/racing).

How do you do that and what is it?

RandG

bahzob wrote:

Now average of 1.5 hours a day, 6 days a week, each session 20 mins or so warmup then hour or so averaging 80-90% threshold effort mainly through long threshold or short VO2 repeats. It's working pretty well so far, I've got back to around 95% of my previous best performance.

That is very interesting, cause all I have read recently is to train in the bottom zone for approx 80% and only spending 10% in the "no man's land" zone and 10% in the HIT zone :?