Pre-50, Post-50 Relationship to Cycling - Ep160

Cycling in Alignment with Colby Pearce · Apr 1, 2025 · 1h 20m

Pre-50, Post-50 Relationship to Cycling - Ep160 In this walking podcast, I unpack my thoughts on training and how it might differ for athletes younger than 50 vs older than 50. On a previous podcast, I spoke to Phil Cavell about his book The Mid Life Cyclist, which also covers this topic. My thoughts are around Intensive training vs extensive training, but perhaps not in the typical sense they are discussed in cycling lexicon. Concepts I consider: I really don’t like the “getting old sucks” mentality. I think it is regurgitated bullshit. Repletion instead of depletion. Training objective is…