admitting that I'm wrong

so on Dennis's request I called Ward about his training, he's logging between 20 and 25 hours a week now and during the race season it gets scaled back to 15 to 18 hours a week (that includes racing). So if we're hitting 12 to 18 a week then we're doing pretty damn good. His comment is that the Sunday long ride will be key to get those hours up there just so your body isn't shocked by the 9+ hour effort. Mix up the shorter rides with recovery and some very hard interval efforts.