How to train from standing start to 260km ride in two weeks?

[Ajax Bay]

Please report back after the ride so we can see how it all went.
and a tub of this for after
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Actually... for really long rides.. I do use Sudocreme before.

Your @rse will be limiting factor, but your previous cycling capabilities will stand you in good stead tomorrow.
Sudocrem before, prophylactically, for me.
Good luck (in the unlikely event you see this before starting) and as @Milkfloat said, let us know how it went!

 

[cougie uk]

Hope the weather is kind for you. Looked snowy yesterday.

 

[Saluki]

Good luck today.

 

[biggs682]

I wonder what happened??

 

[CXRAndy]

Shall we presume it didn't go to plan or go ahead at all from the silence

 

[ianrauk]

Probrably still asleep and unable to work from the excessive excursion.

 

[Ajax Bay]

the excessive excursion

Sometimes autocorrect plays a blinder. Love it!
Alternatively you have been at that crossword book.

 

[ColinJ]

I think the effort of making those 2 posts was too much for him/her, so (s)he is having a long rest!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I think the effort of making those 2 posts was too much for him/her, so (s)he is having a long rest!

Maybe he is in training to make his posts 260 days apart…

 

[Gwylan]

20 years of living and cycling in Flanders screams watch the cobbles and the number of participants. Safer than Box Hill on summer weekend though.

You can do the distance.
Really cover the nutrition and hydration
And the other bits.
Oh, and watch the cobbles!

The weather in Belgium can be all 4 seasons in one day.

 

[ColinJ]

20 years of living and cycling in Flanders screams watch the cobbles and the number of participants. Safer than Box Hill on summer weekend though.

You can do the distance.
Really cover the nutrition and hydration
And the other bits.
Oh, and watch the cobbles!

The weather in Belgium can be all 4 seasons in one day.

You are a few weeks late!

 

[Gwylan]

Story of my life.....

 

[tinywheels]

I assume the original poster is still in intensive care or is long buried.
A post to fill in for our fevered imaginations would be awesome.

 

[CXRAndy]

I know posters don't owe us anything, but its a tad frustrating to left in the lurch

 

[Saluki]

Perhaps we need a list of great starter threads with no resolution. Then we can weave great tales of dering-do around the campfire, while supping tea and eating cake.