>>108350 You get used to it from simply riding, last year when I did a few weeks of 20h+/week it was amazing how quickly the body acclimated. The first 6h+ ride with efforts felt very hard, a couple weeks later with harder efforts and 1000kJ more energy expenditure felt like a breeze. High volume felt so good that I am somewhat seriously thinking about taking a sabbatical year after I get my PhD and just focusing on riding for a while, see if I could make it to a NC podium finish