Cycling workouts defined

Excerpts from https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/cycling-interval-sessions-hurt-but-youll-find-all-the-people-who-want-to-kill-you-with-their-car-in-the-gym
Long Ride.....“Long” can mean absolutely anything you like, but if it’s less than around 45 minutes, you’ll want to lie about it to other riders....can give the impression to the rest of your family that you might just be having fun with your friends.
The Sweetspot/Easy Tempo....Not too hard, not too long, and with substantial, if nebulous, fitness benefits promised....But, curiously, only the first time you do it. Second time, even if it’s exactly the same ride, it will feel as if it lasts for ever. If you keep doing it, it will only get worse.
The Threshold Session....A boxer trying to come up with the equivalent would just punch themselves in the face for 40 minutes....mostly what they do is make you smell too bad to be allowed in the cafe. Most coaches only prescribe the session to promote “psychological resilience”. This just means that they’ve come to really hate you.
The Long Interval Session...A bit like the threshold session in that you’ll hate it and keep hating it. It has the added bonus that after you’ve discovered how unhappy the first effort makes you, you’ll know what you’re going to get in the rest of them.
The Short Interval Session....Only after several minutes will the full crescendo of horror reveal itself.....the short interval session has an autoamnesia function. You can never remember how terrible they are afterwards, probably due to a lack of oxygen to the brain.
Finally, there is The Gym. This is unpleasant because of one thing: people. It turns out that all the people who want to kill you with their car are on their way to the gym. In this environment they are, if anything, even less lovable than they are on the open road.
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