I was in a similar situation a couple of months ago.
Like you, I usually ride 8-12hr/wk, so I was vacillating between the Mid and High Volume plans.
but after getting some quality advice on the forum, I decided to go with the Low-Volume, prioritize those workouts and then add sessions that fit my schedule.
This worked out great for a number of reasons and would be my recommendation to you.
With the Low-Volume plan, my ideal and pretty typical week would look like this:
- Mon - Active Recovery spin
- Tues - LV Plan workout
- Wed - Endurance ride
- Thurs - LV Plan workout
- Fri - Endurance or Recovery
- Sat - 3+hrs outdoors
- Sun - LV Plan workout
There’s a lot of similarities between Low, Mid and High Volume, so on the days without a scheduled workout, I’d often look to one of the higher volume plans for inspiration.
SSBII LV avg’s 3.4hrs and 241TSS/wk and I ended up avg’ing ~8hrs and 500TSS/wk. This is still short of the 10-12 I’m used to but with the focused indoor sessions, my training felt considerably more productive. And the one week that I was traveling for a few days, I was still able to cram my 3 LV Plan sessions in back-to-back so I didn’t have to stress about missing a workout.