Some training questions......for LeJog in 7 days.
I'm doing Le Jog in 7 days in August. Av distance 130miles ish per day. I cycled it in about 13 days last year with panniers and will be doing it using B & Bs with a friend and our spouses (pit bitches) who will be reviewing National Trust tearooms en route.
I'm 34 reasonably fit. I am 10 stone, can do 10mile tt about 28 mins (on an Allez with a Brooks saddle- how do you guys afford those Aero wheels?). I am a quick climber.
I have done a few 110mile rides last year(with panniers) and only got a mild cramp in my backside.
I'm healthily scared of LEJOG in 7 and want to enjoy it as much as poss and so I have put in a 100 mile ride recently.
Current training is
3 times a week to work and back: total 3 x 33 miles (av 15-17mph)
one of weekend days -no cycling
Sat or Sun 60-80 miles
2 questions:
1) I am a primary school teacher. Thus I am knackered alot of the time though the cycle back does energise me for the evening.
Would it be better if I didn't do there and back but just drove one way and cycled a longer route at the other end of the day?
2) My max hr is about 180bpm
Alot of my commuting is at 160ish.
What % should I ride at? Or should I do 10 mins at 80% followed by 3 mins easy then repeat etc? Please dont use technical abbreviations am about Lactate thresholds as I find them pretty confusing.
As far as the Sat/ Sun ride we are just going to steadily lengthen the ride with a view to having some multiday rides back to back in July.
Your advice is very welcome.
Ed
I'm 34 reasonably fit. I am 10 stone, can do 10mile tt about 28 mins (on an Allez with a Brooks saddle- how do you guys afford those Aero wheels?). I am a quick climber.
I have done a few 110mile rides last year(with panniers) and only got a mild cramp in my backside.
I'm healthily scared of LEJOG in 7 and want to enjoy it as much as poss and so I have put in a 100 mile ride recently.
Current training is
3 times a week to work and back: total 3 x 33 miles (av 15-17mph)
one of weekend days -no cycling
Sat or Sun 60-80 miles
2 questions:
1) I am a primary school teacher. Thus I am knackered alot of the time though the cycle back does energise me for the evening.
Would it be better if I didn't do there and back but just drove one way and cycled a longer route at the other end of the day?
2) My max hr is about 180bpm
Alot of my commuting is at 160ish.
What % should I ride at? Or should I do 10 mins at 80% followed by 3 mins easy then repeat etc? Please dont use technical abbreviations am about Lactate thresholds as I find them pretty confusing.
As far as the Sat/ Sun ride we are just going to steadily lengthen the ride with a view to having some multiday rides back to back in July.
Your advice is very welcome.
Ed
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Eddddddddddd, sounds like you've got it sorted tbh. Keep the rides into and home from work as is, in my opinion but yeah try for a bit longer on the way home if possible. I think the back to back long rides are the key. It's relatively easy to knock out 100+ for one day, but to do it for a few days on the trot can be difficult. I certainly suffered on the third day and my av. speed dropped alarmingly (yeah I know it's harder at the top end.)0
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1) Would it be better if I didn't do there and back but just drove one way and cycled a longer route at the other end of the day?
I don't think it would make much difference
2) My max hr is about 180bpm
Alot of my commuting is at 160ish.
What % should I ride at?
Your end to end will be at sub 70% heart rates. So you need to train at just over 70% then it will seem easy. Your 80% 10 minute intervals seem ok. I would tend to do 10 minute intervals at 85% but HRM are so variable there's probably no difference.
I am doing a similar ride to you, Paris - Brest - Paris 1200km in 90 hours in late August
1 month before the off I aim to have a heavy week of mileage, approx 1000km in a week. Then I am going to take it really easy until the event.
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Eddddd
I would be more concerned with getting more time on the saddle.
If you are doing 130 miles a day, how many hours in the saddle?
have you ridden for 8 or 9 hours a day, every day?
The only way to do it is get the mileage in.
LEJOG in 7 days is easily do-able at the pace you are riding ( 15-17 mph) but can you handle the boredom?
Just a different way of looking at it I suppose.
good luck with the ride
george
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Good luck, that's gonna be tough. If you ain't fit enough at the start you will be at the end! I'd be more worried about aches & pains from other areas than from a lack of fitness.0
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I think I can do the mileage overrall if I pace myself right and eat/drink properly.
It will be hard which ever way I look at it.
I am scrabbling around for advice on carb drinks as I have noticed that at the 70 mile mark I flag badly!0 -
I'm planning on doing LEJoG in 7 days next summer so will follow your progress with great interest - will you be posting journey details anywhere?
If it's of any use, I just did a 4-day tour averaging 150 miles per day - longest day 172 miles. That has given me the confidence to consider the 7-day end-to-end. I didn't encounter any problems that I hadn't expected (other than a continuous head-wind, sometimes gale-force!). This was a move up from 120 mpd tours in the past, and I didn't do any extra training this time - winter training in the gym turbo 3 times a week (1 hour at quite high resistance) and a weekend 60-mile run.
My reckoning is that if the Audaxers can keep going for days (and nights) on end, then I should be able to do a 12-hour day!
there's no such thing as steep hills - just the wrong gear
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I'm doing LeJog this year starting mid July and aiming for 7-9 days; and think it's about training quality not distance,
For training my experience is that you DON'T need to regulary do big miles....in fact 130 miles in 10 hours on flat is easy (have done it to check) if you train doing shorter miles but harder. My regular ride - I'm doing 120 miles per week avg - is around 40 miles in 2.5-3 hours but puts in around 1500 metres climbs with lots of 20% + gradients (peak district) - these are big effort and big intensity rides and I have hard time constraints to get back to work/home....after these I am tired & sore sometimes...
In France/Spain mountains I've done 70-80 miles per day on big hills and found improvement build very very fast but hills still take their toll.
When I have all day without time/work pressure to do 100 - 130 miles and nowhere near the gradients & climbs, I find I'm just so much more relaxed and easy...even have time for a pint a lunchtime....and the only issues are pressure points and shoulder strain from the duration.
I know it will be harder to put the long rides back-to-back but also know (after effective nutrition !) it's down to minimise the pressure points and duration based strains by getting used to long rides, comfy shorts, relaxed position etc...
Good luck....!
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I will be posting my ride up on the web hopefully, if I can work out how to do it.
Bricey I agree. I think I will combine hard and short with staedy and long.
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Snap!
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