Garbage Miles VS Hours Spent in the Saddle

What you call garbage miles doesn’t mean a thing but if you add it all up it’s the hours spent in the saddle. Don’t come to the conclusion that miles are the ultimate goal of being fit, fast, and having results.  Results are ultimately being SMART and doesn’t mean being the fastest. Being fast helps…  What I have learned ultimately is that being smart and thinking through the plans you have skimmed up will help you in the long run.  Thinking to much in the go-go-go movement actions of a race can mean that you’ll miss the lead ground, chase group, or getting guttered (SUCKS). 

I am saying through this chatter I am writing is that putting in the hours will make racing easier the learning curb that much keen on the mind of judging and, - ‘is this worth all the time and $$$ we spend.?’  Yes, it is!  

I’ve heard and read peoples complaints that if a person has 1000 more miles than you that shouldn’t really mean a big difference in fitness but if you add up all the hours like 80-100.  The hours you put in over someone else that didn’t will peek its head when you climb hills and your still breathing from your nose versus the other people getting dropped or breathing from mouth heavily.  Same can show in racing when the last few miles or half way points in a race the rider that put the time in is feeling good up until the finish verses the rider getting dropped because it hurt to bad somewhere in-between racing.  Strava shows a lot of different data but looking at someone’s miles isn’t the key look at the graph and hours.

My hours/graph is the top one other is another riders that has 1500 less miles than myself but compair the hours and time spent in the saddle! 

So what about the theory of being a smart rider?  Sure you can feel strong and great that day but what if you the stronger rider thinking you can crush anyone an everyone while your pedaling in the wind more than 50-70% of the entire race? I don’t see you getting very far because you burned up a lot of energy and when the going gets tuff you might get spit out and off the back.  Smart riders hide in the mid front of the pack coming to the front to keep there position secure, pulling through and not trying to kill themselves in the wind.  Smart riders think when they stick their nose in the wind of WHY-WHY-Why am I pedaling in the front here surely there must be a reason why!  Smart Rider will be moving all around for a good position to get less wind hitting them too finding the best draft off some ones fattass.  Smart riders ride with people that are faster and race a lot to learn from them.  Racing a lot will help speed up the learning curb of how to race and ride-faster-win-&-do well in races.  Learning to be smart also entails being aggressive, find the perfect draft, where is the wind coming from, and help with the pain and suffering.