WWYD?

Ok, so I am training for IMC, which is on Aug 29.

I normally do my long rides on a Friday so as to impact the family less, then long runs on Saturday.

My schedule has me riding 6 hrs today, then next weekend is a HIM, then a final 6 hr ride the following week before going into taper.

I woke up this morning and it is cold and raining and 40km/hr winds. No way I am riding 6 hrs in that.

So, here are my options....

1. Skip this long ride altogether, do my long run tomorrow and carry on with the rest as scheduled.

2. Do the long ride tomorrow, run on Sunday even though it would screw up some other scheduling things with the family. My dh is willing to go with this, though I feel a bit  guilty about it.

3. Do a shorter ride tomorrow so as to impact the family less, run on Sunday.

4. Suck it up and ride today. I really can' see this one happening.

So, WWYD?

Can you do a shorter ride today?  I know the weather is being uncooperative, so can you maybe do a short (2 hour?) but intense session on the trainer?  You have a race next week anyway, so maybe a shorter, higher intensity workout isn't a bad thing. 

How about long run today and long ride Sunday?

I'd do a ride with more quality and a little less total duration today, perhaps four hours.  I'd dress right and head into the wind or across the wind and do some longer sub-tempo intervals of about 40 minutes with a short 5 minute recovery.  after about 2 hours of that nonsense, recover for a while and turn you back to the wind and practice driving the bike hard and fast in a big gear all the way home.  If you arrive before 4 hours, do some cooldown riding to burn off the rest of the time.

You will get more out of it than 6 hours of noodling around and it will keep your mind and body warm and occupied.
 

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Originally Posted by jroden 

I'd do a ride with more quality and a little less total duration today, perhaps four hours.  

Bingo!  Ride 4 hours, insert some hard segments of 2-3 x 20min harder segments after the 2 hour mark, or do the last hour at HIM pace.  That's what I normally do.

 

6 hour ride???????!!!!

(okay, you have my answer).    <4 hours today or tomorrow and call it a day

I decided to do it today and I am glad I waited. Was a gorgeous day for riding today. I didn't really want to shorten it because mentally, I needed to do it to have the confidence that I could do it.

Foxy, we are not all speed demons like yourself. We slowpokes need that 6 hours to do our century ride.

And I just have to add there was very little noodling around....my garmin tells me I had 5380 feet of climbing in there. It was hard.

Thanks for the input.