How can I train with my husband???

[Smilie]

On a good day DH is Dear Husband.

On others, well you can decide what the D stands for.

[limewave]

DH and I don't train together, but we do push each other on our rides. He rides at a faster pace, I can usually hang with him as longs as I keep a good draft. Sometimes I'll call out to him to slow it down a bit.

Another thing we'll often do is split up. He'll head down one road and then come back on the next. While he's taking his little detour, I go "all out" and we see how long it takes for him to catch me. It's a cat and mouse game for us, and it's a lot of fun. Then we take it easy and recover for a bit and do it again. It's good interval training.

[teigyr]

Communication is important, as stated above.

I have more endurance than DH though he always starts out faster. It takes me forever to warm up. It's important to figure out when one should wait for the other person (what if something happened?) or if the faster person should circle around and meet up. There's a really really fine line between making a ride be a nice social event and accidentally insulting ones spouse by acting like they are riding too slowly.

I guess expectations in advance are good.

As much as I like the idea of a tandem, I think we are both too strong-headed for one. Then again, you never know

[Trigress]

My suggestion is that you let the stronger rouleur pull on the flats - this makes the rouleur work harder while the weaker rider can maintain a higher speed than on his/her own. On climbs you follow your own pace, but the one finishing earlier goes down to meet the one still climbing and climb the hill once more. Going down I'd recommend that the technically best rider rides in front, and the other one tries to follow as close as possible - this way the technically more inexperienced rider can learn a trick or two.