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.
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.
That’s the whole point. It still ain’t “hours and hours” especially considering he’s what he’s trying for. 1-2 hours 6-7 times a week is still only 10-12 hours a week.
My training for similar events is 10 minute glide in warm mode, mid range gears, simple workout. That's 10 minutes, then i follow that up with 60-30's which is 60 seconds of climbing in toughest gear range, 30 seconds in mid gear cool down, then 60 seconds climbing again. I do that for 20 minutes. I follow that up with a 10 minute cool down mid gear range, low effort. I do this twice a day. I'll do 150-200 mile ride once or twice before event. I just send it at events. Never fails !
I did a ~110 mile ride in one day with about 60 lbs of gear and I hadn't trained in a long time. The next day we did another 70+. The next day I reached my final destination, an easy 25 miles. The most painful aspect of it was the lactic acid in the knees. I thought my knees were coming apart, but they were fine.
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.
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.
try to ride over 300km a day. I wonder how many hours you can last on the saddle. the weather is a huge factor too. wind ,rain ,cold just to mention a few.
@@y.a.p8951 I know some guys who do this whole year and are mighty inrlwsive lol But is not what I meant, there is a middle ground to train for this long ass events between 1-2h daily and 300km Plus you need to do long distances like this 300km you mention more than once in order to be able to build muscle and endurance for this events. Not daily of course but you have to do so or your body won't be able to do it later
@@nemure I completely agree with you. I just adding some things to consider which can impact the experience., as you said not many can do 200k in a day. I had done something similar in the past and it was rewarding but challenging as hell.
@y.a.p8951 depending on the terrain and the person you can definitely train the other aspects of the ultra long rides and find success. I finished a 300+ mile (535km) ride in less than 24 hours because it was extremely flat and I mostly practice how to eat on a bike. Once the rides get over a certain distance it's a lot less about how good you are at biking and more about how good you are at soaking up calories and dealing with the ever growing fatigue from never stopping. There are many many many many more cyclists in the world that would make quick work of that particular ride i completed, but they wont. The willingness to forego sleep, ruin many weeks after due to recovery, and subjecting yourself to unnecessary trauma will start to beat out being in great cycling shape once you dip into the "yeah but why?" distances. A person could train for a year and finish a 12 hour race in dead last, but that same person in the same training time frame might win a 72 hour race. It's a different kind of training because it's basically an entirely different sport.
@@nemurethey said the majority of training can be done in 1-2 hr rides, if you do a weekly or even biweekly longer ride then the majority of your riding is still short rides and you become accustomed to longer rides. So yes a regular person can train this way and still achieve incredible success. I'm an example, I did 175 miles in 11 hrs without riding longer than about 65-70 miles while training.
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!
I’m a rookie so I’m not gonna speak like I know, but I am still a high level athlete, trained in martial arts & played high level basketball except the NBA . One thing with training it’s always simulating real life, that’s how ur condition can drastically improve, I’m sure the simulator is just as effective but nothing like that outside, realtime training !
I ride all day just bc I like to ride my bike I don't even own a car I just ride my bike Before that I walked everywhere Before that I never got outta bed bc I was living with my mom and even before that I was a bmx rider and could ride for 8 hours and still have energy
they meant he didnt do two 8hours rides every weekend. But They also don't take into account ollie's base is quite high already. Nibali could pull 1000km in 2 days after 4months of chilling in his couch.
@@francescomancetti8327but gaining that base is actually pretty easy to rack up by doing consistent base rides indoors instead of just 1 ride outdoor per week. Since you body is consistently being stressed. The key here is consistency really, doing 1-2 hours every 4-5 days is already around 6-10 hours. Those workouts easily add up more than most expect. Especially if those 1-2h sessions include interval days and structure. You'd actually gain fitness faster that way than an unstructured long ride every weekend.
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.
I love these videos - you are such an inspiration and I love that we have a woman on GCN... I am so into cycling now - mostly due to the amazing talent and team on GCN... :)
I don't count Indoor cycling as cycling... I do the real cycling on tarmac.....fresh air not artificial air in the house. I use the Indoor trainer when it's wet outside. Otherwise outdoor all the time.
Ok but why? I mean if you enjoy cycling then why fret about having to spend hours and hours on your bike like it's extra maths homework or something? Equally if you don't want to spend hours and hours on a bike then don't. Why would you then do 1000km ride over 3 days? Unless you're escaping from the Germans in WW2 or something and only have a bicycle. If you want to ride a long way then ride a long way. If you only want to do an hour on a trainer then do that. But why would anyone say "I don't want to ride for hours and hours so how I can I improve my cycling endurance?" - because you don't need cycling endurance unless you're going to spend hours and hours on a bike do you?
Epic achievement but for me riding a bike indoors is utterly pointless and defeats the entire object of cycling. Should be outside enjoying the surrounds. Don’t get people who are amped by zwift and the likes. Just get outside and ride your bike in the real world. I guarantee you it’s much better.
Not always! Consider the unknown variables outdoors; ridiculous drivers and mindless pedestrians, traffic jams, utter chaos irl than on an indoor trainer which can yield exact measurable results/standards without having to deal with interferences of the outside world! There's a place and time for indoor bikes! 💪 💪 💪
I live in the highlands of Scotland and the weather gets really miserable for months. Should I just stop riding over the winter? Should I risk harm by cycling on icy roads in the snow, sleet and hail in the dark? Or would it be better to switch to indoor training for a few months so I can keep my fitness and enjoy my window of summer cycling more?
Depends on your goals. Indoors is more efficient for training especially intervals if you can't find a good section of road to do them. Indoors there's no pedestrians, stop lights, or intersections to deal with. There are those that cycle for enjoyment and may not need indoor training, but remember there are also those that enjoy getting stronger and faster on the bike, either just personal goals or because they also race or plan to race.
1000km in 3 days... well, good job on a normal road bike. Compare that with Holger Seidel's record ride 27./28. 8. 2022 Germany South To North, when he made 1055km in 29h57m - in a velomobile! Kudos to everyone who willingly choses to ride one of those uncomfortable and un-ærodynamic roadbikes for long distances. I admit I 'd always prefer the velomobile 😊
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.
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.
That's where it's good to just look at weekly volume
Yes! He was averaging about 15 hours a week according to Strava.
My thoughts exactly. Which ever way you want to spin it unless someone's riding at 60kph 1000km is gonna take some time
That’s the whole point. It still ain’t “hours and hours” especially considering he’s what he’s trying for. 1-2 hours 6-7 times a week is still only 10-12 hours a week.
@@crycrcfyhf8862 10-12hr of cycling per week is A LOT of time for the average cyclist mate
How did he train? Key information is missing here! Is there a video that goes into the details of his training?
The title of the short is a link to the full form video
Thanks :)@@Chooona
My training for similar events is 10 minute glide in warm mode, mid range gears, simple workout. That's 10 minutes, then i follow that up with 60-30's which is 60 seconds of climbing in toughest gear range, 30 seconds in mid gear cool down, then 60 seconds climbing again. I do that for 20 minutes. I follow that up with a 10 minute cool down mid gear range, low effort. I do this twice a day. I'll do 150-200 mile ride once or twice before event. I just send it at events. Never fails !
He trains a lot, way more than most leisure cyclists.
On a stationary bike...😂
I did a ~110 mile ride in one day with about 60 lbs of gear and I hadn't trained in a long time. The next day we did another 70+. The next day I reached my final destination, an easy 25 miles. The most painful aspect of it was the lactic acid in the knees. I thought my knees were coming apart, but they were fine.
acid lactic is my biggest enemy
How was the ride back home?
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.
the rest of us are just happy with a 100km ride every now and then
Outside the house mot on a trainer inside the house.😮
That’s how I did IRONMANs. Mostly indoors and a 3 h jog thru a city.
Run swim and backbar squats is great for the bike. I found it to be better than biking for bike performance.
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.
try to ride over 300km a day.
I wonder how many hours you can last on the saddle. the weather is a huge factor too. wind ,rain ,cold just to mention a few.
@@y.a.p8951 I know some guys who do this whole year and are mighty inrlwsive lol
But is not what I meant, there is a middle ground to train for this long ass events between 1-2h daily and 300km
Plus you need to do long distances like this 300km you mention more than once in order to be able to build muscle and endurance for this events.
Not daily of course but you have to do so or your body won't be able to do it later
@@nemure I completely agree with you.
I just adding some things to consider which can impact the experience.,
as you said not many can do 200k in a day.
I had done something similar in the past and it was rewarding but challenging as hell.
@y.a.p8951 depending on the terrain and the person you can definitely train the other aspects of the ultra long rides and find success. I finished a 300+ mile (535km) ride in less than 24 hours because it was extremely flat and I mostly practice how to eat on a bike.
Once the rides get over a certain distance it's a lot less about how good you are at biking and more about how good you are at soaking up calories and dealing with the ever growing fatigue from never stopping. There are many many many many more cyclists in the world that would make quick work of that particular ride i completed, but they wont. The willingness to forego sleep, ruin many weeks after due to recovery, and subjecting yourself to unnecessary trauma will start to beat out being in great cycling shape once you dip into the "yeah but why?" distances.
A person could train for a year and finish a 12 hour race in dead last, but that same person in the same training time frame might win a 72 hour race. It's a different kind of training because it's basically an entirely different sport.
@@nemurethey said the majority of training can be done in 1-2 hr rides, if you do a weekly or even biweekly longer ride then the majority of your riding is still short rides and you become accustomed to longer rides.
So yes a regular person can train this way and still achieve incredible success. I'm an example, I did 175 miles in 11 hrs without riding longer than about 65-70 miles while training.
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!
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. 😂
Ollie rides loads… lad’s never off strava!
Tbf he trains more and harder than 99.99% of leisure riders
Beautifull bikes
Truth is that it's not about endurance but about being comfortable on the bike.
Ngl i perfer longer rides than short ones since its easier for me
wish I had the time lol
Is Ollie a well seasoned cyclist previous to this block of training? An ex pro/semi pro?
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What was his baseline?
Enlight me.. What's so big about 1000k on thre days on bike?
I’m a rookie so I’m not gonna speak like I know, but I am still a high level athlete, trained in martial arts & played high level basketball except the NBA . One thing with training it’s always simulating real life, that’s how ur condition can drastically improve, I’m sure the simulator is just as effective but nothing like that outside, realtime training !
I ride all day just bc I like to ride my bike
I don't even own a car I just ride my bike
Before that I walked everywhere
Before that I never got outta bed bc I was living with my mom and even before that I was a bmx rider and could ride for 8 hours and still have energy
You're right. Not hours and hours. It was years and years.
Indoor training never worked for me, no matter what training I was doing it didn’t help. But everyone to there own
Ollie is brains & bronze!
What was his actual training schedule
They say he didnt do hours of training. So 1-2 hours is not an hour anymore?. Crazy how time has change
1 to 2 hours are considered for beginners 😅
they meant he didnt do two 8hours rides every weekend. But They also don't take into account ollie's base is quite high already. Nibali could pull 1000km in 2 days after 4months of chilling in his couch.
since you wanted to be cocky, she said hours and hours, not just hours. Thats quite different.
@@francescomancetti8327but gaining that base is actually pretty easy to rack up by doing consistent base rides indoors instead of just 1 ride outdoor per week. Since you body is consistently being stressed. The key here is consistency really, doing 1-2 hours every 4-5 days is already around 6-10 hours. Those workouts easily add up more than most expect. Especially if those 1-2h sessions include interval days and structure. You'd actually gain fitness faster that way than an unstructured long ride every weekend.
Good to know. 😂
1 hour indoors on a trainer is equivalent to 10 hours outdoors and 10 hours watching paint dry.
And what about the X00'000 km in previous years ?
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Can’t ride indoors anymore. I chose bike riding to be outside.
I’d say riding the first two hundred kilometres would be suitable training to tackle the remaining eight hundred kilometres.
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If you don’t love spending hours and hours on the bike…what’s the point of road cycling?
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.
I think im crazy doing 200km each Sunday and this guys rocks 1000km in 3 days 🤣
But I want to spend hours and hours on my bike......
Some ones's weight gain is out of control.
I love these videos - you are such an inspiration and I love that we have a woman on GCN... I am so into cycling now - mostly due to the amazing talent and team on GCN... :)
I would count hours and hours on a bike when its above 10h weekly
When quality miles meet junk miles…
Great example of a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Oil has years of cumulative training under his belt. Many see this and go from zero to hero
I don't count Indoor cycling as cycling... I do the real cycling on tarmac.....fresh air not artificial air in the house. I use the Indoor trainer when it's wet outside. Otherwise outdoor all the time.
2 hours on a trainer is not allowed from geneva convention.
😮😮 super man and super woman cyclists
I mean, the trainer is still the bike, at least in my mind.
BUT. Ask how he felt after
Just Ride when you can. Half an hour at Lunchtime? Go for it. Not Riding because: there is no time.... Doesn't help.
Isn't that what "hours and hours" mean
Wait, are you saying he rode for three days straight?😮
One 7 hr ride + others is not considered hours and hours? 😮
Ok but why? I mean if you enjoy cycling then why fret about having to spend hours and hours on your bike like it's extra maths homework or something?
Equally if you don't want to spend hours and hours on a bike then don't.
Why would you then do 1000km ride over 3 days? Unless you're escaping from the Germans in WW2 or something and only have a bicycle.
If you want to ride a long way then ride a long way. If you only want to do an hour on a trainer then do that.
But why would anyone say "I don't want to ride for hours and hours so how I can I improve my cycling endurance?" - because you don't need cycling endurance unless you're going to spend hours and hours on a bike do you?
Oli is not a normal person don't try that on us
Imagine how much faster he would be on that ride if he trained the right way for it 😂
Yeah but probably spent years building overall fitness
Yea and at the end of the race he looked like he’d aged 30 years 🤷
It's a 1000km.
I wouldn't ride that on a single car ride.
And he was back to normal after a good rest
@@emt38891000km on car rides crush me.. It's superhuman to do that on bike in such short time frame
He's fit already done the hours and hours.
1000 km? What's that like 50 miles?
I do that all the time.
TRY 625 mi on for size! Consider knowing your measuring standards!
@@ev-ezaye3580 man you'll be amazed when you discover sarcasm
a hour or two everyday then a 7 hour ride to top it off is the very definition of spending hours on a bike
fuk me 🤦♂️
how about wind resitance? how about uphills?
bruh.
That was useless and therefore irritating and counter productive
Epic achievement but for me riding a bike indoors is utterly pointless and defeats the entire object of cycling. Should be outside enjoying the surrounds. Don’t get people who are amped by zwift and the likes. Just get outside and ride your bike in the real world. I guarantee you it’s much better.
Not always! Consider the unknown variables outdoors; ridiculous drivers and mindless pedestrians, traffic jams, utter chaos irl than on an indoor trainer which can yield exact measurable results/standards without having to deal with interferences of the outside world! There's a place and time for indoor bikes! 💪 💪 💪
I live in the highlands of Scotland and the weather gets really miserable for months. Should I just stop riding over the winter? Should I risk harm by cycling on icy roads in the snow, sleet and hail in the dark? Or would it be better to switch to indoor training for a few months so I can keep my fitness and enjoy my window of summer cycling more?
Depends on your goals. Indoors is more efficient for training especially intervals if you can't find a good section of road to do them. Indoors there's no pedestrians, stop lights, or intersections to deal with. There are those that cycle for enjoyment and may not need indoor training, but remember there are also those that enjoy getting stronger and faster on the bike, either just personal goals or because they also race or plan to race.
Indoors? Nah
More gcn bollocks
1000km in 3 days... well, good job on a normal road bike. Compare that with Holger Seidel's record ride 27./28. 8. 2022 Germany South To North, when he made 1055km in 29h57m - in a velomobile!
Kudos to everyone who willingly choses to ride one of those uncomfortable and un-ærodynamic roadbikes for long distances. I admit I 'd always prefer the velomobile 😊
It didn’t work for him. He was incredibly slow. Anyone can ride a bike a long distance if they just ride their bike a long distance.
He came in 6th. What place were you?
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