I’ve entered a 3 week event ! its essentially as near can be,the 1972 TDF Route here https://grandvelotours.com each day is approx 80- 100 miles some days with classic climbs as well. My rough plan is build up the ability to ride at 80-85% FTP for couple of hours , on climbs and repeat again follo…

There’s a thread on ultra training that you might find useful Ultra-endurance training and maybe this one too [image] Audaxers / Randonneurs - Share your knowledge and experiences! Training Hello! After doing the festive 500 and reflecting on where my training has slowly…

For a tour as such as this, it’s not what you can do when fresh for the first couple of hours. It’s about what you can do day after day. Thus you want to build up your fatigue resistance and your ability to recover day after day. I presume you have experience of multiple back to back 100 mile days…

Hi Phil, I’ve done 10 day camping tours,800 miles in Scotland & 2 week tours in Belgium ,Netherlands previously. What I found is not ground breaking but keeping HR low below 125 I’ve a max of 182 , and eating a lot of carbs at the days end. Enables you to ride and keep riding day after day, and …

My experience isn’t exactly the same but I’ve done a 30 day ride across the USA averaging 115 miles a day, based on what I experienced, I would recommend keeping the climbs upper z2 at most and staying on track of fueling. It’s very important to avoid digging yourself into a hole from intensity or f…

I’m not sure how realistic it is to ride at 80-85% for 4-6h a day every day for 3 weeks, even if just for climbs. My personal experience doing these sorts of things, as someone who focuses on ultraendurance events, is that unless the climbs are quite short, you’ll be happy to be holding ~75% on the…

Sounds like you already have your opinions on what works for you based on your previous tours. Generally if it works for at least 3 / 4 days without feeling done in by the end, then it’ll scale for as many days as you keep going. For ultra endurance it’s not necessarily how high your ftp is, but h…

Will you be in a big peloton most of the time except for the climbs? If so that will obviously have a huge impact on your TSS each day.

thats something I’d forgotten about , sitting on wheels, yes about 30 off us so a big help in-between the climbing

I don’t know the event but it looks really cool. If you were to do a write up or diary here on how it goes it would be fantastic to read! If there’s around 30 participants, you might expect it could be broken into 2 groups of 15 or so, so as not to have too large a group on open roads with traffic …

I’m 55 in February and I’ve been cycling since my teen years. As I’ve aged , dare I say matured! I started looking at the journey and discovery of new roads being my motivation,rather than trying to be the best amongst my buddies. So 2023 needed a plan, to do something different! Possibilities wer…

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