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»      Interesting ways to improve economy here. I can attest
that the VoMax workouts you mentioned in the first study do seem
to help economy on the bike as well.  I just finished a short
block of VoMax work (6 days total, consisting of 7 VoMax
workouts spaced over 5 of those days) and can tell my efficiency
has gone up. The training benefits of the workouts will only
become realized as the recovery week I am in progresses, but I
can already tell that my pedal stroke and cadence has improved,
even though I was doing specific work on my pedal stroke before.
It's interesting that in Part I and Part II you state that
economy is not as critical at the shorter distances, but the
research studies cited all use 5k or shorter distances and
demonstrate significant differences in performance. As a grad
student involved in studies of running economy at similar
distances (sub 10k), the differences of running economy make a
huge difference. Extrapolated o