I had a thought about this in relation to my crit performance from last year, the training for my events this year, the comments from some other riders and a bit of common sense. Taking an extreme approach to this would mean that training for a 1km persiut event you would only ever ride 1.5km and potentially spend the rest of the day in the gym or ride the 1.5km repetatively ? The other extreme would be for a 24 hour event would you try and ride for 36 hours ? This leaves you with a mix inbetween where a degree of moderation exists but I do believe that the longer rides are beneficial in different ways than just riding 1.5 times the event distance. Training for a 10 mile time trail by riding 15 miles every day would help but a single longer ride (replacing some of the other miles) at the weekends should help a lot more.
The other way to think about it is with your training stress as you need to build up the training stress to get fitter and this equates to getting on your bike and doing some miles. As a guide I think you will not win a race on a CTL of sub 50 and a minimum of 45 is required for a top 10 (on a reasonable CAT3/4 event).
To get to a CTL of 60 you will need to be doing a minimum of around 120 miles per week (at 3.5 TSS per mile).
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