That's a good article, from my experience last year I did hardly any long rides and mostly trained with a turbo trainer (1 hour sessions a day) and although I didn't win any races I felt I could hold my own in most 3rd cat races. I know Neil used a more targeted approach to me using Training Peaks to work a plan out for specific races which seemed to work really well for him too. I think when you start looking at the de fonce 3 day stage race you can't get away with doing a short sharp blast of training because you're body needs to adapt to doing hard efforts back to back. I was glad to have chain gang 6pm tuesday and track sessions on Wednesday 7am to get used to this if nothing more than to give you some confidence going into it.
