I'm busy preparing for a muddy 100 km (62 mile) MTB event using only Trainerroad after a year of almost no riding after becoming a time crunched father. I'm not worried, Trainerroad is pure gold. I've used it before, completing a 200km bucket list winter race. 👌🏻

Great discussion! I am training for my 5th "Breck Epic" 6-day mtb stage race out in Breckenridge Colorado. Each day for me at Breck is typically 5-6 hours. Lots of long tempo wo's and two back-back rides in the 4-5 range per week plus strength training have prepared me pretty well in the past. I will do one or two bigger weeks prior to where I up my TSS to about 70 % of race week . Oh yeah, and most of Breck Epic is over 11,000 feet. It's really tough to train for that in Michigan. 😂 A lot comes down to the mental toughness aspect and not thinking about the whole race, 220 miles, 32k feet of climbing, etc, and just focusing on the present moment.

Loved Amber's words at the end here. I feel like they were a great recap for all of this. Thanks for the insight, everyone!

Very good information. Years ago I used to think you simply had to pound out really long rides in the weeks or months leading up to your Big Event. Now, I'm not so sure, and this video helped cement that thought.

Another enjoyable 'podcast'. You guys have made it that I am always willing to click on your videos when they appear in my feed as the combination of presenters and the method of discussion of the topic is the best I have come across on KZfaq. Keep up the great work! In saying the next comment, I do realise that there are a large variety of reasons that you wouldn't want to get into all aspects of a subject, but I'm a little surprised in talking of 'low volume plans' and 'training energy systems', that you didn't get into energy system interval regression combined with interval duration progression over multiple sessions / days as the method of most effectively training the maximum out of each energy system on a limited time programme as that gives maximum simulation of stress to each energy system without having to do the longer times... at least for one day events. Although, I do see it as valid to not getting bogged down in detailing all aspects and variations of a subject considering how big a subject that is depending on individual athletes and event needs. I agree with Amber that it is another story on learning how to keep alert, concentrated and effective without doing longer rides for the mental (and bottom resilience) training. An old pro once told me, that it is useful to do a long endurance-recovery ride once a week, if recovery-level endurance is all you can physically manage following on from other more intense training, to train the mind to be better at concentrating for the duration of the upcoming event.

Great to hear your thoughts and experience on this. Thanks for answering my question.

A friend of mine holds the English Channel world record. While I get that swimming is a different sport to cycling in training for the record attempt the longest swim sessions Trent did were around 6kms.

I'm a ridiculously easy MAF rider 80 % of the time and a ridiculously hard ride r 20%... works for me even at 63

Wait, an online turbo training platform that you have to pay for is suggesting you don't need long rides? That's odd!

Good stuff, Lady and Gents! Been doing all the things you mentioned. Wish me luck on a 24 hours solo MTB race in a few weeks.

Happy times!

I’m riding 210 mi in 10 weeks. Can’t keep only riding 3hr or less. Just not sure where to cap.

Why go on long right which is the proven way to build insurance when you compare a premium price to have trainer Road ?great advertising pitch

TR Users have the longest questions ever...lol. Not a complaint but i usually need to listen a few times to understand the context and question.

Hi Champions, I am looking for a training plan to maintain or improve my fitness for my Saturday group rides every single week. Other than that, I dont want to target any event or race. Is there a good answer to this?

I just realised I have only brittle fitness... FTP up and down like a yoyo.

How much is brain training involved in why you don't need to do big rides? A subject I've been intrigued about recently, and I wonder if it is a subject that you guys have deeply got into, is whether or not you think that BET (brain endurance training) / SOMA NPT is fully applicable or whether it is just another product created out of limited scientific investigation with actual, but limited, utility? I can understand that athletes can get better test results or that it could greatly improve performances at specific times, but I wonder if week-in-week-out training and racing stage races utilising this system would actually just result in eventual over-stimulation, over-training and fatigue?

Hey great video, thank you. I have trainerroad and I am unsure which plan to choose given my time constraints, Would you recommend a high volume plan knowing I will need to miss some session (if so which sessions should i cut out) or stick to the medium volume training plan and maybe add a session here or there (if so how should I choose which sessions to add)?

Hello! my watts/kilo is 4.2. I am 67 kilos and my one minute power is 720. I recently raced a cat3/4 race and got shelled out the back. What is is going to take to be able to hang in there on a race?

This is why XSS rules TSS

Nate! Hi! I am Jon. I am also 6'6 with a 38.5 inch inseam and 29.9 inch knee to floor length. I was wondering what center-of-bottom-bracket to seat height do you run (or what measure do you use to set saddle height). Your s-works venge, do you run a 58cm or a 61cm? The specialized site recommended I get a 58cm and run it at 33.5 inch height (c-bb to seat), but that seems a bit low (I ride at 35 inch c-bb to seat currently. I could add further details about my fit, but I doubt its helpful/ your interested so I will leave it there.

You should throw around a few more acronyms, it makes everything so easy to follow. Not.