How to justify your Zone 2 endurance base rides.

07/04/22 • 19 min

Whenever we prescribe easy rides to an athlete new to coaching we nearly always get some kickback, or they report their riding buddies are having a laugh at them. In this Podcast we discuss this and offer some ways to help you justify this intelligent training in your own mind and articulate the idea to other riders.
#zone2 #polorisedtraining #basetraining #cycling

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