Originally Posted by
johnbobey
...-the idea of riding 100kms is daunting, to say nothing of 12 of them IN A ROW.
Good luck on your pursuit.
Several years ago at age 44, I got into rando training, with the intent to build up to my first 1,200km. I built up to doing 100km's 2-3 days per week with a 200km every other Sunday, got up to back-to-back 250km's, a 320km (double imperial century), and I topped out with a 525km (325 miles) in 24 hours. Then knee pain entered my life (probably due to too much sprint training, when I wasn't rando training), which ended my rando pursuit, to this day. The difference in effort between 100km and 300km is absolutely huge, and the jump from 300km to 500km even bigger, and I would imagine that the jump from 500km to 1,200km is astounding. What I found in my training was that doing a really long ride is one thing, but the ability for me to ride 300km, recover quickly, and then do it all again the next day, and the next day after that, and then again! (aka 90hr time limit for PBP) is yet another thing altogether, and takes a ton of trial and error with regards to fueling, supplements, and stretching, and is something I hope to be able to train for again someday. At the moment I'm back to 100km being my limit, and I'm perfectly happy with it, for the moment.