Panter
Just call me Chris...
- Location
- Sittingbourne, Kent
I seem to have hit a bit of a plateau with my riding and where I was making big improvements in speed and fitness before, I feel I've levelled off a bit now.
I rode to work this morning but knew I would be taking the van home so I hit the ride quite hard where I normally have to leave some in reserve for the return journey.
Anyway, I didn't manage to make the target of <1Hour (although it was close at 1Hr 2m 43s) but my average HR was 156 for the journey.
So, should I simply pedal harder everywhere to move my performance on a bit or should I be looknig at specific training, intervals or similar?
I feel that I need to be able to increase my HR without flaking out so quickly, 140 is comfort zone, high 150's are on the edge of substanability, 160's don't last very long and once in the low 170's I'm on borrowed (and very short term lease at that) time.
I rode to work this morning but knew I would be taking the van home so I hit the ride quite hard where I normally have to leave some in reserve for the return journey.
Anyway, I didn't manage to make the target of <1Hour (although it was close at 1Hr 2m 43s) but my average HR was 156 for the journey.
So, should I simply pedal harder everywhere to move my performance on a bit or should I be looknig at specific training, intervals or similar?
I feel that I need to be able to increase my HR without flaking out so quickly, 140 is comfort zone, high 150's are on the edge of substanability, 160's don't last very long and once in the low 170's I'm on borrowed (and very short term lease at that) time.