# Retiring soon what now **URL:** \ **Category:** Training\ **Created:** [February 6, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/retiring-soon-what-now/29393 "2020-02-06T16:19:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![AJS914](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@AJS914](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/AJS914)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/retiring-soon-what-now/29393/6 "2020-02-06T18:11:16Z")
Find a bike club that rides mid-week. Get outside. Get a MTB bike and hit some trains. Get a gravel bike and do some adventure riding. Also find a project for after your work life - something you are passionate about and find interesting - learning about stock options, model trains, whatever floats your boat. Going to the gym is great. You could take that up a level after you develop some overall fitness. It will benefit cycling. If your intent is the ride more, start leaning about the polarized approach. The way to increase volume without being constantly fatigued is more long, slow rides. > [@Quality over Quantity vs. 80/20 (or Chad vs. Matt ;))](https://www.trainerroad.com/forumt/quality-over-quantity-vs-80-20-or-chad-vs-matt/3962): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/retiring-soon-what-now/29393)._