Quote Originally Posted by grey View Post
Holy COW!!!!
I'd be EXHAUSTED.
Completely. I don't know how I'd go to work. I don't know how I would ride 85 miles one day, then turn around the next day and ride over 100, and then almost 80 the day after. I don't think I could function. I don't think I'd want to get back on the bike the next day, certainly not for that distance. Maybe 20 miles, then the next day a long one again... I've only been riding a few years but... are you sure you are not overtraining?
This is only my 3rd year of riding, so I'm no expert by any means. Overtraining? Possibly. But for the most part, these rides are not what I would consider "training rides". I'm not going "all out" for 80+ miles...I would be dead, for sure. My average speed on most of my rides usually falls between 14-15mph, so a fairly casual pace, IMO. Sure there may be instances where we will push the pace up a bit for a short stretch, but then we back down to our normal pace. Today, my DH and I rode a nice and casual 40 miles and I felt fine...and that was AFTER I had gone to the gym for cardio & weights early this morning. So, somedays I have lots of energy (today), and then other days when I just ride longer distances my body seems to give up earlier than my brain wants to.