rachel132
Cathlete
I’m looking for advice from Cathe or anyone with training experience. My question is for advice on how to help my daughter improve her endurance. She is 5’2” and 210 pounds. We recently purchased bicycles and plan to train for a 75 miles charity bike ride (the Ride to Defeat ALS) in New Jersey this June. Because her father was recently diagnosed with ALS this is extremely important to her emotionally. We have gone on 10 mile easy flat rides (takes an hour). But when we try anything more difficult, moderate hills, she collapses. Physically, she is out of breath, heart racing and panicking and emotionally upset and feeling that she will not be able to do this because of her weight. My thoughts are that I need to get her a heart rate monitor and we need to go to the gym and use stationary bikes to figure out where she is and have a more definite marker of progress by increasing and decreasing tension. I want to keep her encouraged. Even if we can’t do the 75 miles, we could do 50 or even 25. Is there any advice on the best way to increase her endurance…how to measure current ability and how quick should she increase intensity? I have Cathe's cycle videos but I think they will be too difficult for her and just frustrate her.