# Why do long slow rides?

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**Created:** [August 25, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/why-do-long-slow-rides/41622 "2020-08-25T10:06:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![CH01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8797f3/32.png) [@CH01](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/CH01)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/why-do-long-slow-rides/41622/81 "2020-08-30T02:46:56Z")

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I have recently questioned the importance of Endurance rides as part of a program too. Although I wasn’t specifically looking at long slow efforts like the ones mentioned in the thread - mainly just the 60-90m Endurance rides as part of the Build program - I have come to realize that I now categorize them from ‘junk miles’ into ‘consolidation miles’ whereby my body gets a chance to rest from the higher IF workouts like the VO2 and AC workouts (which have lately ‘almost’ broken me physically and mentally!) and to consolidate the gains I have made in other sessions during the week.

I outlined my most recent learnings in this post below:

[Trading out scheduled Endurance workouts and trading in Sweet-Spot workouts](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/trading-out-scheduled-endurance-workouts-and-trading-in-sweet-spot-workouts/41780/7)

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