Am I riding enough?

If you have to ask...

As scoobysdad said, depends on your goals. If you're trying just to finish, you've got good volume, at least you did in July, where you rode well over half your YTD mileage.. If you're trying to reach your potential as a cyclist, you probably need to up the volume and hold it there for a number of months to build endurance strength and fueling capacity, then fine tune with speed and tempo work.

Ditto your running. Arbitrary (IMHO) benchmarks are 100 MPW cycling (three 17s during the week and a long ride of 50), and 20-25 MPW running (three at 3-5, one at 10+).

Edit to add: "How bad do you want it?"

I'll agree with Bear's statement, but add that if it looks daunting the FIRST PRIORITY is to pick a "long" distance for you based on goals, and commit to it once a week for a period of months.  Fill in as bear mentions, perhaps 50% of "long".  If the schedule gets tight in a given week, the "long" is the one you MUST do above all others.

Started this on myself in December and it has me running better than ever this summer.

Weight is a factor in running, big contributor to injury IMHO. I'm am just getting back to where I can tolerate running four times a week, but I've always supplemented my running with work on the elliptical trainer, usually three days per week for 40-45 minutes per session. Similar motion to running but without the impact. Also helps to work on running cadence as you have a readout right there in front of you on most ET machines.

That's my problem, I have an ankle that starts squawking at me after 2 /week.  So, I always have to massage advice like bear's into my limiter.  I went from 9:00 m/m to 7:44 ( recent PR) m/m on my 10-miler and a 1:47 half-mary doing what I said all last winter.  A 10+, and another...sometimes a faster 5-7, sometimes a sprinted 2, occasionally all 3.

I wanted to do the same thing on the bike this summer, but sorta lost focus.  Now that you bring this up I'm gonna commit to that through August/Sept/Oct (weather permitting) and see if it works the same.

edited to add:  on the bike, with different distances of course    For me, perhaps 45-50, 25, occasional 10-15 TT.

Wait a minute....can you ever bike enough?

 I'm lost here...I thought MORE was always better, it doesn't matter what your talkin about.

:-)

Interesting idea, never thought about that.  Any comments on what it should be set on, resistance-wise?  (I've only been on one once or twice, does it work on resistance, or do you set a cadence and try to keep up, or ??)

Uh, didn't you get the memo? We go by heart rate around here. Keep the cadence on 180, adjust the resistance so that I'm in Zone 2.

err...well sure, of course I did....I just wanted to know where an engine running at peak efficiency would set the machine, so I can strive for that.   Thanks.

Yea, me too obviously.