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The 10 mile time trials you're doing will benefit speeding up your Audax rides.
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"how does one train for Audaxes"
hippy's audax training tips
- Ride your bike, Ride your bike, Ride your bike
- Practice running and elbowing people out of the queue at your local Costa/Nero until you can beat Bolt to the register.
3.Train yourself to apply Sudocrem while pedaling - Train yourself to reprogram any Garmin model blindfolded.
- Learn the floor layout of all the popular petrol station/services brands
- Ride your bike, Ride your bike, Ride your bike
- Stomach stretching exercises will help deal with any 'double fry-up' scenarios
- Don't listen to hippy, he's a pretender and doesn't even own sandals.
- Learn to swear in foreign languages as it gives more variations when you've flatted for the ninth time.
- Ride your bike, Ride your bike, Ride your bike
- Ride your bike, Ride your bike, Ride your bike
andyp
hippy
@graunch
So this may be bit of a silly question, but how does one train for Audaxes.
I have done a 200km and then on Saturday the 300km. My bike seems to fit me pretty well I am not in any appreciable pain at the end of my rides so far other than fatigued muscles. I know that speed is not meant to be a thing in Audax, but I think I would like to get a bit quicker as much as I like sitting on my bike, there comes a time when I have had enough of it :-). I suppose that I could make it quicker overall by stopping for a shorter period (I had two hours of stops in total on my 300) but that feels a bit wrong. Do I have to be doing massive 8 hour training rides do you think? or will shorter quicker ones help as much?
In other news, I think I am doing
Is anyone else?
Assuming I get those done without it being too awful, I think I /will/ enter PBP
George