I've been tweaking my training schedule for the next few months, and I'm debating the significance of brick workouts. I'm training for Wildflower Long Course in May and am in the midst of the base training period. I have scheduled long rides ranging from 2 to 4 hours that will include lots of climbing (3k to 4k ft) in preparation for the hilly Wildflower course, and I was thinking about adding on a run workout within 10 minutes of completing those long rides. I was thinking of adding 30 minutes, and then slowly adding more volume up to about 75 minutes. My research regarding this on the web has been mixed; there are plenty of people who advocate and also don't advocate these bike-run brick workouts, so I just wanted to get your opinion on this subject.
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