Ask the Experts: Cycling Q+A with Jim McConnel

Your are the problem KK it all stems from you this is a budding website

You need to be pruned

Dave, that is thinly veiled discussion about orgys. Beetle, stop smoking... Or keep smoking but just don't get pregnant, I can't decide.

You can't discus orgies unless you can throw naked people a very long way; which in itself could be a useful life skill.

Gotta love how the Olympics has inspired the man on the street.

Dave The Ex- Spartan wrote (see)

I could push a few scallies off the Runcorn bridge ?

Ok, tha's not a euphemism but a sexual disease!

So, you've read 50 Shades of Shite then? Or just in the wrong place when the Tardis came down.

Jim McConnel 2 wrote (see)

@m_eldy Ahhh, IM training. If it was me and I had 3 bike sessions a week then I would do the following as a basic. Session 1 - long ride build up to the magic 6+ hour ride across about 8 weeks so mentally you know you can handle the kind of distance you will race over. Preferably done on a day when you can really relax, eat and sleep afterwards as it will drain you. Arrange friends to ride part or all of the way. Plan in advnace what you will do and mix up the routes. Session 2 - this has got to be a 2-3 hour endurance ride where you mix hills and recovery on the flat. It will be important to get used to going uphill for a prolonged period of time - Lanza is a hilly windy course and you need not to get daunted by the length of some of the climbs. Will be easy if you live in the Peaks or the Lakes. Session 3 - a session that could switch between a 90 minute recovery ride one week to an interval ride (turbo based possibly) where you try and build your power and top end - suggest building to from 6 x 4 minutes right through to 3 x 20 minutes over a course of 6-8 weeks where you are working very closely to your sustainable threshold. Hope that helps you.

3*20 on the turbo near threshold- like that (not to do personally obviously - but as advice) - no messing around with varying cadence or resistance. 

so 

• a long ride
• a medium hilly ride
• an interval session

Thats essentially my core bike training, but I combine the medium ride with some intervals in it..... and add a few bike commutes as vase, recovery or fartlek

Thats pretty solid advice...... shame it hurts so much

This is a bit old now??

Why is this silly thread stuck to the top of the tree? 

Why has this thread slipped off the top?

oops sorry