“Not just extreme, but poor coaching”: 18-year-old pro does “crazy” 100km “recovery ride” immediately after 157km race — but is ex-pro right to criticize team?; Safety concerns over Rwanda world championships; Pidcock wins again + more on the live blog
by sammybeebikey
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100km recovery ride doesn’t seem like a big deal. Three(ish) hour easy spin.
“Philipsen (…) ended the six-hour total ride with an average speed of 41.8km/hr.”
Okay, let’s do the math:
– 100km in 6 hours would average out to 16.6km/h, a pace so slow even my overweight ass can do it.
– 6 hours of riding at 41.8km/h would be 250km, which is even more brutal than the 157km race the dude participated in.
– 100km at an average of 41.8km/h would be 2:24h on the bike.
So, if he really did 100km in 6 hours, *and* rode at an average of 41.8km/h, that would imply 3:36h of resting and eating and whatnot. I’m just an enthusiastic noob, but doing more hanging out than pedaling does sound like a recovery ride to me.
“Recovery rides” are interesting. Given that during light exersize you still get massive increase in blood flow and muscle insulin sensitivity, it makes sense that “active recovery” is a thing – provided you do it while constantly fuelling.
But if you pedal really hard, it is very easy to outpace your glycose absorbtion capacity in the gut – unless, of course, they found ways to increase uptake to 200g/hour or something 🙂