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Let's get right into it with Mark's question

Mark says great podcast and I've been I've been devouring the episodes on my commutes to work and look forward to every new one

Speaking of commutes during the last episode and he references episode 69

So it's just a little behind here you guys address bite commuting and whether it's really a beneficial workout

I've heard the cycling coaching world regularly rebuke the commutes training benefit and just wanted to address the one rider who wrote in

I think we all understand that it's far from a high intensity workout

But he was throwing down five consecutive days 10 hours a week and over 120 miles of riding

Of which many of your listeners listenership could kill for and you guys seemed to me at least to dismiss it as one step above sitting at a desk

And no, I perhaps that came across wrong then because certainly not there has to be more benefit than just burning calories

Which anything that keeps up that strength to wait is beneficial he mentions is there any minimum commute our

mileage or TSS threshold that is coach approved and he says that in quotes where it is considered training to be a faster cyclist

Any tips for making your commute more beneficial

And Mark, I think the context in which we discussed that was relative to the prescribed workout and how it wasn't exactly

On par with it and how difficult it would be to simulate interval workouts during a commute

And no way did I mean to imply that commutes aren't worthwhile training training time miles

There's no minimum and there's no particular milder TSS that brings makes that coach approved the fact is any riding is

Potentially beneficial really it only gets to a point where it's not beneficial as if you're in an over trained state

And that's not what we're talking about here. So any miles he can log are of some benefit

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