Leading up to 77 miles, training?

fludey

Hi all hope someone can help or point me in the right direction.

I am doing a 77 mile ride in a week and a half and I have been doing a few 50 miles rides at weekends and shorter 15 mile rides in the week with 2 or 3 days a week off.

Should I keep riding right up to the event or should I take a couple of rest days prior to the event...or just do short low intensity rides to keep things moving?

Any advice would be great

Garz

Keep up the 50s (as you were doing building up to said event) this weekend, but widweek stick with the 15s. Take a rest for the two days as you mentioned before the big day.

ozzy1000

as above really, it not long to prepare so doing a normal work load and make sure you have a at least a few days to recover and fuel up. if you're comfortable doing 50 you'll be fine.. eat alot of pasta for a couple of days prior, then make sure eat start eating about 35 minutes into the ride itself, try and eat 25-30gms of carb every 30mins after that.. I might be wrong but my understanding is you can only really absorb 1gm of carb a minute so there's no point filling you belly to much, just nibble a gel or some flapjack or bannannas...

any ride over an hour or so can be transformed or ruined by how you eat...

procyclist

fludey wrote:

Should I keep riding right up to the event or should I take a couple of rest days prior to the event...or just do short low intensity rides to keep things moving?

Any advice would be great

Do NOT take a couple of days off before the ride, just do low intensity little ring rides. No harm at all in doing a 65-70 mile ride this weekend rather than your usual 50 - you'll find it a doddle.
The 77 mile ride - if its a group/sportive type ride, don't be tempted to go at anything above your normal pace to start with - the temptation might be there to tear-arse it up if others are so inclined at the start, but you'll pay for it later.
Don't forget to stick a can of WD40 in your back pocket, just in case

fludey

Thanks all, I have been experimenting with eating / gels on 50s and it does make a big diff if I leave it till too far in to the ride so will pack plenty along with high5 drink. Won't be tear arsing off as doing it with 3 others 2 of which have already said the aim is to finish not to race......although legs allowing the last 200m might be a sprint lol.