I’d say it depends on how often you do these rides. If its every now and again just count one of these as one of the hard rides and make sure you do enough easy rides before you do another ride like one of these or a Vo2max workout. If you are doing these all the time instead of your hard rides then you probably won’t get quite the progress you want but you’ll probably enjoy yourself more. Don’t forget though, most of the adaptations come from the long easy rides in a polarised plan. Keep those easy and you won’t go far wrong
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