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Bike fit.
How much and what you can eat
Plan a good route
Ride your bike for as much as you can but don't worry too much.
Work out sleeping. Are you happy to rough it or do you want hotels.
You'll have to do more days so can you recover. Stretching.
Bike fit!
skinny-
I didn't realise you were doing this. Now I know why you were asking this and that.
Cool stuff. Bit different to your normal road racing :)
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I agree with all this, especially bike fit, which made it to the top of my list of priorities whilst audaxing.
I'm looking at the route now, and a rough schedule for each day. Currently TT'ing France, then picking up a cycle path across Italy seem appealing, and I reckon I'd want to stay in a few cheap hotels every few days to wash/ recharge things etc.
I guess now the main thing is just to ride base miles, and hope that this bitter German winter doesn't get any worse. Maybe strength/core training too...
Are you based in London Skinny?
hippy
Yossarian
Okay, so I'm entered fomally now...
I'm somewhere between being excited and quite nervous, it's clearly going to be a massive challenge.
Has anyone got any thoughts on training? I was thinking personally (bearing in mind I'm targetting the Lanterne Rouge) that my training should focus on being able to recover quickly, then to be able to manage with a reasonable 275km per day, repeatedly... as opposed to looking at being able to manage significantly further distances per day and the associated night riding and sleep deprivation.
Who has experience of this type of multi day riding? and what kind of training had they done?
Is it just myself and Skinny that are entered?