do you think I can cycle 100 miles this weekend?

Suffolk is flat.

Any intensive or long rides you do between now and Saturday will just add tiredness to your legs. 3 days is nowhere near enough for legs to recover (and improve) thanks to last minute training.

4000ft is ~1200m, in 100 miles that's gently undulating, nothing serious (1600m climbing per 100 miles is "average" for the UK).

You're not riding it with "Marvellous Matt" are you?

I'll be doing it fixed (all be it "unofficially": £25 for a coffee, flapjack and signposts? >>>>> stick it up your arse thread), so don't forget to DAS me.

I know the route well and is pretty flat: you'll piss it, if you pace yourself as described above.

I'd maybe fit in another ride tonight and then no more until Saturday.

Near the coast (which this route is), yes. Surprisingly lumpy inland due to glaciers and all that.

#IANAgeographer

I'm leading a 40km fixed/single speed ride this evening: casual pace, 6:30pm at the Giles statue.

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so I did 30 miles last night, how many should I do thursday?
intensity? (rides on saturday)

None. Rest up and be fresh for the ride.

I've ridden there. It's flat, just like the rest of England. Flat. Flatty flat flat flat.

^ Although this is probably a better idea.

#IAAidiot

Just like the beer?

#lesigh

Let's go and see General Lucifer and sing Wuthering Heights as we crest over the hill to Haworth*

Now that's what I would call ace.

*General Lucifer doesn't live in Haworth but don't let the facts get in the way of a good fantasy bike ride I reckon. And he lives closer to Haworth than we do at any rate.

oh NOW you're talking!

#Don'tWorryI'veGotTheFalsettoForIt

Not from ipswich (from essex) but cheers

I've just looked up where Haworth is. It is in the North and so Luci must be close.

I also discovered that it is about 25 miles from where I went to school and yet we never went there even when studying Brontes at A Level. I feel cheated. Explains my poor result in English.

#aledrinker

Not sure what the scientists recommend but for me it would be a low intensity ride for as long as possible - you need endurance not sprint speed. Then it's good food and sleep and stay of the booze until 1-minute after the ride is done.

I needed my iPod to motivate my self up the hills, lots of aggressive music.

Chill.

Just ride you bike. Don't worry about anything but enjoying it.

I needed my iPod to motivate my self up the hills, lots of aggressive
music.

This might be a mistake on endurance rides. On endurance rides that are not races, hills are to be ridden up and not raced up. Keep your heart rate low. Always be able to hold a conversation. If you take them hard, you will exhaust yourself. If you take them easy, you can go on forever.

Think hare and tortoise.

Think hare and tortoise.

Best to save the pub until after the ride cliveo, unless you're a trained professional such as myself.

Yeah but i was riding fixed, hard to avoid, especially on steep climbs, but i enjoy riding like that.

How many stops are scheduled for the 100?

hoping to just have 3 short breaks. Did 50 with just 1 stop at a pub for crisps and a pint of coke. So reckon 3 should be about right.

As said, don't worry too much, just enjoy it.

Anyway, just look at all the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies and dickheads who made it round last years ridelondon100.