I’m following a training plan from british cycling (modified) – so my week is as follows:
- rest Monday
- light 10 miles Tuesday (train to HR zone 2)
- rest wednesday
- outside ride on Thursday 10-15 miles – (not to HR zone)
- rest Friday
- club ride on Saturday (pretty hard 20-25 miles)
- light recovery ride on sunday (to hr zone 1-2)
rest days i am doing some roller exercises, and will be doing swimming on a Friday evening. After a couple of weeks i will be upping my distances- plan will get me to 100 miles in 8-12 weeks (ready for some sportive in the UK and then a MTB trip in may/june).
I was finding i wasn’t loosing as much weight as i wanted, because i was always going hell-for-leather on the trails, but curtailing the efforts into a structured plan will also get me in the ‘fat burning zone’