Most riding should be easy
If every ride is moderately hard, none of them are doing their job.
Why structure beats volume
The rider doing six structured hours usually beats the rider doing ten unstructured ones.
How we work
Easy easy, hard hard
Amateur cyclists gravitate to a comfortable-but-not-easy pace on every ride. It feels productive and sits in the least useful place: too hard to recover from, too easy to drive adaptation.
So every plan separates the week clearly. Easy rides genuinely easy, one or two hard sessions with a purpose, and long rides that grow at a rate the body can absorb.
Reading actual ride files matters here. Files show when someone is riding their easy days too hard, which is the single most common reason a plan stops working.
Our principles
Three beliefs behind the method
The plan bends
A missed week gets absorbed, not restarted.
Fit and medicine elsewhere
Bike fit goes to a fitter, pain goes to a physician.
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