SHOULD WE STOP RIDING HARD?
KEVI BROUGHT UP A GOOD POINT. We were geeking out over polarized training, the poles being Easy days and Hard days. He's new to it, and keeps...
... riding too hard on the easy days.
Which ruins the system.
We can't ride truly hard,
if we aren't rested.
Then, he brought up a good point.
Maybe we shouldn't be riding hard at all?
What?
The horror!
He suggested a mental shift...
... from Hard to Fast.
I slept on it,
then this happened.
Tuesdays are my hard days,
and I like to go hit it on our saucy group ride.
However, things today weren't as heated as I'd hoped...
- guys tired from going long on yesterday's holiday
- one of the hitters riding slow and shutting down attacks
... what to do when we want to ride hard and aren't being pushed?
That's where riding Fast came into play.
I did my little ol' best to keep the pace high, fast.
It didn't help the group's overall speed too much,
still rather lethargic by our standards.
But, it got my lycracovered buns to the front more than I have been lately...
... because I committed to ride fast.
This carried on, after the group split up, for the hour it takes me to ride home.
Calling a ride or effort hard implies, I dunno, something negative-ish.
Fast can mean all kinds of things...
- average speed
- ripping up a climb
- all out for the final sprint
... how we apply Fast depends on the day's objective.
The two words, hard and fast, feel different...
... and I think that matters.
Personally, I'd prefer to be fast.
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