The Time-Crunched Cyclist, 2nd Ed.

focusing on your career and your family doesn’t change the fact that you’re a cyclist, nor does it invalidate your desire to be fit, fast, and powerful. Simply put, a reduction in training time doesn’t automatically doom you to back-of-the-pack finishes or another season of fruitless suffering. If you’re willing to work hard with the limited time y

The workouts in this program are hard. Very hard.

In the absence of time, intensity is the key to performance.

The ultraendurance training program features more volume on the weekends while maintaining shorter interval workouts during the workweek, and there are a few weeks of that schedule that feature a fifth workout day.

Weekly training volume will be 6 hours, with the option to increase workout duration and accumulate up to 8 hours.

Two to three weekday workouts, each lasting 60 to 90 minutes One to two weekend rides, each lasting 1 to 3 hours

4 workouts per week.

We had found the point at which the classic endurance training model breaks down. Once you get below 8 hours of training a week, the old tried-and-true methods derived from pro-level athletes no longer work.

it’s almost impossible to completely separate the honest science from the science of the cheaters, because a lot of the same research was used to advance both legitimate and illegal methods for enhancing performance. For example, the same research that helped us understand the mechanism and benefits of altitude training also helped the cheaters dev