Heart rate spike on long rides

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It’s called heart rate drift. Keep doing more endurance rides to improve. One way to go is to ride by HR. Keep it at 140 for the whole ride even if you need to throttle power down.

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Quality over Quantity vs. 80/20 (or Chad vs. Matt ;))

I’m under the impression that Jonathan, Nate and Chad are fans of Matt Fitzgerald so I’m especially curious about this. In his 80/20 triathlon book Matt takes the stance that an 80/20 easy to moderate/hard distribution gives you the biggest training effect even when only training 45 minutes per day on average. This is more or less the volume of a Olympic triathlon base low volume on Trainerroad and the distribution of load is clearly more heavy on the non-easy side than that - the argument being…