New Fountainhead PR!

I now have read enough fast but not crazy fast guys claim to get better gains using short high intensity rides opposed to more epic ones where effort levels are restrained alot. I have been doing a mixed bag of both types but I have seen the light. In recent months many of my rides have been short for time so I have hammered to make some training value of them. Pulling a trailer with 100# of youths around as hard as I can has also been great for my cycling strength.
So much intensity that the pain in my side, long forgotten, has reared it's ugly mug on most of my recent hammerfests. Like tonight at FH. I forgot to bring a clean water bottle, somehow mine still had some Perpetuem left from Sunday...NASTY!! I ended up riding the full loop sans water, 80 degrees, and muggy. Didn't clean everything because I was out of breath and missed my line up the hard little climb. Still beat my previous best by 1.5 min with 51:50 gate to gate.
Dontcha know I went to the MORE FH time trail thread http://www.more-mtb.org/forum/showthread.php?t=11235&page=3 and some dude posted about getting a lazy 46:30 lap. I may never get there but 49:XX looks possible this year.
Back to the initial idea, on a thread about SM100 training a guy who finishes alot faster than me says that he never got fast at the 100 riding long training rides, but when he switched to 2 hour hammerfests his 100 time improved alot and his suffrin' factor decreased. A win-win no doubt.
This has been enlightening. Like I told a new rider who plays sax in the community band with me, Lance does what works for him. His workouts would not work for me. Arnold Swartzenyou know who's Olympian workouts would not do for me. We all gotta do what works for us at our current level. Maybe long rides are needed for newer riders to build up to the point that intense short rides are profitable. My SM100 prediction is that I will finish in about 12 hours this year. Hope it doesn't rain the night before.