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Let's get straight into it with John's question today. He says I'm training for a 160 mile road race

Is it true that you can simulate the same stress on your body by doing multiple days of shorter training blocks?

His example is maybe 60 or 70 miles

Instead of grinding out it out for 160 miles. Thanks

Basically, yes, John. I mean, this is the nature of interval training right where we take shorter more intense efforts to brace us or you know build our

Physiologies where to the point where we can do these longer maybe obviously less intense efforts. So

This is the nature of what we do trying to make less time work for in this case much longer events

You're not looking for a play by play recreation of 160 mile ride though. I mean the really the only way you're gonna get that was to go out and do 160 mile ride

but for an example our videographer Dave Christianson just did the Belgian waffle ride which is in fact 160 miles could be the same ride you're talking about

And he hadn't done anything. I think his longest road race was 90 miles

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