Haha I wouldn’t say there’s anything “easy” about this challenge but I guess its all relative…
I’ll check that article you sent out. Very interesting:+1:
Thank you very much for the detailed advice.
I’m a total noob to TR structured training. But not a noob to endurance training.
I’ll definitely have a look at getting a good bike bag that’ll fit on the top tube or out on the front of the bars, that’ll be good to hold all my nutrition.
As for bike fit. My current fit on my road bike seems to be good, no crazy pains on long duration indoor rides up to 2 and a half hours, obviously I’ll have to see what happens when I up the time over the weeks of training.
only having around 12-13 weeks to train for it I don’t have the time to do a full plan. Hence why I’ve chosen SSB Mid volume then going to be switching out the Sunday sweet spot ride for a longer Z2 endurance ride.
As for carb loading I don’t know whether it really helps either. I just eat a high carb diet as is anyways.
Good luck on your training and ride matey.
Let me know how it goes! 
The difference is the time it gives you to sleep,/ rest between movement. On my ultra distance rides about 90 mins to 2 hours shut eye is enough; to get enough recovery and be refreshed for another 20 hours etc. You can do shorter but you won’t be fully refreshed. I prefer a min of if 3 hour break which gives time for food intake before sleep. Get my 3 hour break and I can keep putting out 21 hour days without deteriorating over many days.
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Anothert thing I just realized as I came off the bike (did 200km today in 7h30; ~26.7km/h average):
Pacing.
My goal for today was to have fresh legs at 170km. Everytime I was like “ah wind in my back nice” or when I just got a kick from eating an energy bar, I was like “no no… fresh legs at 170 come on”. It is so tempting just to give gas too soon, always aiming that higher average over a long distance.
Any indeed breaks. I split up my long rides, today I split it up in about 2 hour sections/stages.
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1st week of my SSB Mid volume plan, I know I will really begin to love the structure to the workouts but…
Coming from running 5 times a week I really think I will miss not running for 3 months, any advice on what to do? As I know running will probably hinder my training… is there a way I could maybe implement 1 run per week just for the mental aspect of it and run at a really comfortable pace?
Having Monday and Friday as my rest days would one of them days be good to do the easy run or do a 2 a day bike session with an easy run?
any advice is much appreciated!