Portsmouth to Dundee 2011 - advice?
stevee_p
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Hi all,
Firstly, apologies if this is posted in the wrong section, I find it hard to categorise my question.
So here goes...A colleague and I are arranging a Charity Cycle ride next year to ride from Portsmouth to Dundee (where our company office are located). We are both keen cyclists (though I would say we probably fall into the amateur bracket still).
First question is, how would you experienced touring cyclists pick your route? We are planning to cover roughly between 80 - 100 miles per day (broken into a morning and afternoon session for 6 days). Additionally, we hope to stay in the same chain of hotels each night eg Premier Inn, as our company has a business account with them. So far we have simply looked at Google Maps, typed in our start address, and end destination, selected 'walking' and then looked at the route it gives us. I guess we may cover part of the route of 'LeJog'. Can anyone recommend some nice routes?
Secondly, if this were you doing this route, how would you train for back to back days? I have no doubt we won't be fit enough by the time the ride comes around, but its one thing practising for 100 miles a day, but its difficult to replicate doing back to back riding without simply doing a practice run. I am confident we can train up to 100 miles per day without too much drama, as we can both currently ride 60-70 without too much training.
Thirdly, and I guess this goes hand in hand with the training, but what sort of diet would you advise I start having, both before and during the trip? I've never watched what I eat as luckily I'm tall and slim. However, I want to make the most of the next 12 months, and change my eating habits. Can anyone recommend any good books / reading on diets for cyclists etc?
We're both really excited about the event, and it will be the furthest we've cycled. Our company should be giving us plenty of support, and we think we'll be getting a support driver in a van to carry our spare clothes & equipment etc.
Any thoughts, or any additional reading you could point me towards would be much appreciated!
Thanks
Steve
Firstly, apologies if this is posted in the wrong section, I find it hard to categorise my question.
So here goes...A colleague and I are arranging a Charity Cycle ride next year to ride from Portsmouth to Dundee (where our company office are located). We are both keen cyclists (though I would say we probably fall into the amateur bracket still).
First question is, how would you experienced touring cyclists pick your route? We are planning to cover roughly between 80 - 100 miles per day (broken into a morning and afternoon session for 6 days). Additionally, we hope to stay in the same chain of hotels each night eg Premier Inn, as our company has a business account with them. So far we have simply looked at Google Maps, typed in our start address, and end destination, selected 'walking' and then looked at the route it gives us. I guess we may cover part of the route of 'LeJog'. Can anyone recommend some nice routes?
Secondly, if this were you doing this route, how would you train for back to back days? I have no doubt we won't be fit enough by the time the ride comes around, but its one thing practising for 100 miles a day, but its difficult to replicate doing back to back riding without simply doing a practice run. I am confident we can train up to 100 miles per day without too much drama, as we can both currently ride 60-70 without too much training.
Thirdly, and I guess this goes hand in hand with the training, but what sort of diet would you advise I start having, both before and during the trip? I've never watched what I eat as luckily I'm tall and slim. However, I want to make the most of the next 12 months, and change my eating habits. Can anyone recommend any good books / reading on diets for cyclists etc?
We're both really excited about the event, and it will be the furthest we've cycled. Our company should be giving us plenty of support, and we think we'll be getting a support driver in a van to carry our spare clothes & equipment etc.
Any thoughts, or any additional reading you could point me towards would be much appreciated!
Thanks
Steve
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Ask here for advice
http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewforum.php?f=22
You aren't doing lands end to john o groats but your plan is similar0 -
Thanks for the quick reply, I'll check out the info on the link, and see what I can find out.
I have been researching various LeJog articles as we're doing 2/3rds of that, and so a lot of the info is relavant.
Thanks again
Steve0
