as a road cyclist and a track cyclist i have gone on 2 rides on my mountain bike this week with my coach but mainly just on the road and on a bit dirt road and after doing 2 rides on that then hopping back on my road bike it was extremely easy, my 50km training rides felt like i had done nothing plus it was very enjoyable for a change of senery from the road or velodrome. everyone thinks we are strange for doing that riding but when it comes to racing the road season i think it'll make it extremely easy. so it is a very good idea for cross-training.

hopefully we'll get into more in the the stuff that actually requires the mountain bikes after a few rides.