Anyone got a couch to 1400k programme?
I've been successful in getting a place on LEL, 1433 km in 5 days and am looking for any advice anyone can offer to give me some chance of completing it! I'd rather not hear, "you'll never make it." or "You should have started two years ago." I am where I am as the saying goes.
I started cycling seriously about seven years ago, but following an accident with a car I reduced my leisure cycling but still commute a short distance, with occasional fair-weather long rides. I also do a couple of sessions a week on a gym bike.
The most I have ever done was a 300k audax, the snow roads which I completed in about 15 hours.
I'm going to Gran Canaria in mid-March for a couple of weeks holiday - which now means bike hire and putting some serious miles in.
So how do you train for long-distance endurance cycling, instead of for speed or power?
I've been successful in getting a place on LEL, 1433 km in 5 days and am looking for any advice anyone can offer to give me some chance of completing it! I'd rather not hear, "you'll never make it." or "You should have started two years ago." I am where I am as the saying goes.
I started cycling seriously about seven years ago, but following an accident with a car I reduced my leisure cycling but still commute a short distance, with occasional fair-weather long rides. I also do a couple of sessions a week on a gym bike.
The most I have ever done was a 300k audax, the snow roads which I completed in about 15 hours.
I'm going to Gran Canaria in mid-March for a couple of weeks holiday - which now means bike hire and putting some serious miles in.
So how do you train for long-distance endurance cycling, instead of for speed or power?