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You don't really lose anything, there's nothing new for anyone who's been riding this kind of things before.
But how to train fighting with bears in Romania?
Samuli
Chris White explains some of the training here .
So indeed basically you need to ride enough to know how these things work and not just read about it and train according to a program. Do intervals or something to get the speed, long rides to get used to it and to learn how to do it. Even though I had been riding for years before I started randonneuring, it took about two seasons of that to not feel battered after a long ride. ymmv