Build your endurance with short rides! 💪

You don’t HAVE to spend long hours out on the bike to get fit and ready for a challenge! Staying consistent with shorter or mid-distance rides indoors can also be a great way to train and build your endurance 📈

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[drydrybnesshorts]

Ollie is amazing. He went from being dropped in old videos to being one of the best riders at GCN beating all his colleagues and trying to motivate them when they want to give up on tough challenges. Hats off to him.

[andrasszabo]

I mean, based on what you're saying, he did spend hours and hours on the bike.
He just didn't do it in a few gos on long rides.
He did it chopping away at it in 1-2 hour rides.
In my experience, it adds up to the same thing.
Riding a same amount of time at the same tempo gives you the same fitness, but shorter rides have a lower chance of injury.

[Lyn-udqe]

How did he train? Key information is missing here! Is there a video that goes into the details of his training?

[caffeineisking]

I've gone from bodybuilding to cycling more the difference to my lungs is insane I love watching myself get fitter on the climbs but my god does your body eat its self, I'm mashing mc donalds breakfasts pre Ride to try and slow my body dissolving down, there's a reason cycling guys blow away in the wind!

[GarrettTischer]

Ollie, check out the North Star Bicycle Race. 1, 000K that takes you from Saint Paul, MN, to CANADA and back! Every September. Current record is 42h 45m.

[CarnivoreDMD]

That’s how I did IRONMANs. Mostly indoors and a 3 h jog thru a city.

[christiankeim]

Lol. This is me. I spend 1-2 hours a day on the pedals, before a endurance race I'll do a 1-2 200 mile rides and then send it at the event. 😂

[topaz_climber]

Ollie rides loads… lad’s never off strava!

[HkFinn]

Tbf he trains more and harder than 99.99% of leisure riders

[jared]

You're right. Not hours and hours. It was years and years.

[MatWolk]

Truth is that it's not about endurance but about being comfortable on the bike.

[nemure]

I'm 100% sure this doesn't work for everyone.
You need to train in a suitable way for your specific goal, I can guarantee you training couple hours daily won't allow the vast majority to even ride 200km in 1 day.

[chefluke]

Some ones's weight gain is out of control.

[HkFinn]

If you don’t love spending hours and hours on the bike…what’s the point of road cycling?

[robertkehl]

Can’t ride indoors anymore. I chose bike riding to be outside.

[petergibson]

I’d say riding the first two hundred kilometres would be suitable training to tackle the remaining eight hundred kilometres.

[andrecrispim]

I think im crazy doing 200km each Sunday and this guys rocks 1000km in 3 days 🤣

[biggertree]

Ollie has never let himself go so his aerobic capacity doesn't need much improvement. That 7 hr indoor training session is more for his bum to get used to long saddle time.

[Real]

I mean, the trainer is still the bike, at least in my mind.

[Baz.]

One 7 hr ride + others is not considered hours and hours? 😮