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Hey guys,

 

Hopefully by Middle next next year I will have graduated and gotten my degree.

It has always been my plan to pursue a job in my career field within the last year of my studies, now that time has come.

 

So big question to all the okes in professional careers how do you guys manage your work life and expectations from your company and still fit in your cycling training?

Can one realistically do a 50km ride at 5AM in the city areas without risk, or is weekday riding pretty much limited to IDT work?

 

Thanks

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Posted

Hey guys,

 

Hopefully by Middle next next year I will have graduated and gotten my degree.

It has always been my plan to pursue a job in my career field within the last year of my studies, now that time has come.

 

So big question to all the okes in professional careers how do you guys manage your work life and expectations from your company and still fit in your cycling training?

Can one realistically do a 50km ride at 5AM in the city areas without risk, or is weekday riding pretty much limited to IDT work?

 

Thanks

 

Many factors involved.  It depends where you work, where you stay, what your means of transport to work is, etc ,etc.

 

Most get an early ride in the morning and then off to work.

 

If it is possible to commute to work you slap many flies in one shot. Reduced tranpsort costs, combine work travel time with training time.

Posted

IDT or otherwise afternoons. I am at the office at 6am - early in early out to dodge some traffic. Some actually ride from 4am to still got to work and some are lucky enough to start at 8 or 9....

 

And winter I only really get to IDT otherwise a short 1hr and the rest on IDT later.

 

Oh and the other issue with commuting is the fact that most companies do not have facilities to shower etc... so commuting is often not an option.

Posted

Hey guys,

 

Hopefully by Middle next next year I will have graduated and gotten my degree.

It has always been my plan to pursue a job in my career field within the last year of my studies, now that time has come.

 

So big question to all the okes in professional careers how do you guys manage your work life and expectations from your company and still fit in your cycling training?

Can one realistically do a 50km ride at 5AM in the city areas without risk, or is weekday riding pretty much limited to IDT work?

 

Thanks

Hey.

 

Its a matter of planning.

 

What you need to do is sit with a weekly calendar and start jotting down the stuff that is fixed, then the stuff that is not fixed but is vital and so forth...

 

Eg:

 

If you MUST be at work from 8am - 5pm, mark that as blocked out on your planner.

Then account for drive in and out of work, block that out, then add dinners, etc in.

 

What you will find is that you will either need to ride in the evenings or early mornings.

 

See where you have time available and then make the appreciate decision about safety, etc and ride accordingly, IDT vs outside....

 

Basically, just plan :) but 1h30 - 2h00 each week day, if structured is plenty.

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If you can't commute to work, then you just have to wake up vrek early. 

 

Many times I leave around 6 to commute to work and okes are coming back from their rides.

 

This afternoon cycle after coming from work didn't work for me, hence the morning is probably the best

Posted

Also get up at 4am, on the IDT at around 4:30 (waiting for the wife to get up LOL) and then do 1 hour a day.

 

If you do proper IDT sessions, you will get big results.

 

For me its too difficult to leave it for the evenings as if you have a rough day, long day or any day that is not 100% perfect, I tend to skip the training.

 

Get it over and done with before your day starts

 

Good luck, as the beginning is quite hard.  Manageble after a few weeks though

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Most advice given so far speaks to early morning riding. In my experience, as your waking time is within your control, it is the only reliable way to go. 

 

I don't know what you are graduating as and what kind of job you will be doing but I can assure you that if you are joining a profession or a Corporate, you will not be leaving at 17h00 whilst building a career.

 

Get to bed early, ride before traffic and work and you are ready to take on your day.

Posted

No more junk miles

Or less

Get very specific with your training

 

It also depends your level of racing or performance goals.

 

Overall, yes, it is a time and energy management tightwire

Posted

Personally with my experience and taking the safety factor into account, I would spend the money on the infrastructure now to get proper indoor training facilities going, get up early, do your training and then get to work.  I noticed that early morning rides are becomming more and more of a problem.  Use the weekends for your long rides on the bike.

Posted

I find morning IDT works best.

Once you factor in Work, travel time, Family(Wife & kids: This will change the routine you establish now).

 

Afternoon become unpredictable to plan, since work does not always end at 5 [big projects, last minute deadlines etc] and traffic is never smooth and it's riding that should give way before family and friends.

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Thanks for all the input guys. It seems I will have to become a morning person :thumbdown:

 

I already have a IDT and work with a coach so my rides are already structured and updated weekly. At the moment I do all my indoor training in the evening (bar weekends) at around 9:30pm. That seems to work best form my current schedule.

 

 

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I don't know what you are graduating as and what kind of job you will be doing but I can assure you that if you are joining a profession or a Corporate, you will not be leaving at 17h00 whilst building a career.

 

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BSc Computer Science specializing in AI (research modules) and software engineering. Hoping to pursue a honours as well quite soon after graduation

Posted

05:15 ride from Mouille Point - Chappies and back at 07:15 50km +-

 

Shower, eat and cycle to work buy 08:30!

 

I currently live in a convenient location so this might not help. 

 

Point is, if you want to, you will! 

Posted

As mentioned by so many people above, the only time is in the early morning before work.

 

You can happily get in 1:30 - 2 hour rides, depending on what time you start working.

 

Rather get it out the way in the morning, as often you don't feel like training in the evenings after a long rough day.

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I work for myself, and in the beginning i made an appointment with myself to go and train. This worked quit well and it was basically all after 5 pm where my friends could join in. I am trying to do the early morning thing on the IDT , this morning how ever i battled to get up at 5:30.....I have joined Trainnerroad after i did the W2W ,and i was very surprised how unfit i was when i did the 20 min test. After my first 6 week block and some out side riding i saw huge results when comparing my FTP's. My advice invest in a good IDT join up with some training plans and you can do your long rides over the weekends......... 

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