Most cyclists cancel the session when the day goes sideways. This episode is a three-hour vlog of Anthony riding from home to Cork while his girlfriend Sarah follows by car to pick him up. The actual point is that the training plan doesn't have to be the thing that bends.
Key Takeaways
The session itself was a three-hour endurance ride, mostly zone 2 with 45 minutes at zone 3, a seven out of ten effort. Nothing complicated. What made it work was treating the commute as the training block instead of trying to carve out a separate window that wasn't going to exist. The day had too many things in it. So the ride became one of those things.
The all-or-nothing crowd, the ones who won't ride unless they've got a structured Zwift workout loaded and a point-to-point plan, are leaving training time on the road. Zone 2 is zone 2 whether you're doing laps of a circuit or riding to a different county. If you've got a long drive coming up this week, or a trip somewhere, look at the map and ask whether any of it is rideable. You might get three hours of aerobic work done before you've even had lunch.
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If you want the actual science on why zone 2 is worth protecting, the World Tour coaches episode on zone 2 training covers that in detail. And if you're self-coached and trying to make your limited hours count, the five fixable mistakes episode is the one to go to next.