The Long Midweek Ride

If there is one miracle technique for whipping yourself into peak condition it is the long midweek ride. Nothing substitutes for volume and nothing builds volume like taking either Wednesday or Thursday afternoon off and spending it in the saddle instead of at work. The charm of this is that you can fully recover by the weekend and have fresh legs for the long efforts there. This week was a perfect example. Karl, Matt, and I got on the road by 1:30 on Wednesday. We chose a lumpy but not mountainous course and hit it as hard as each of use were capable of. The emphasis was on quantity not quality. We ended up with close to 4 hours of saddle time and rolled back into town just as the sun was setting.