Training for London to Paris

Markez79 said:

Any thoughts guys??!

Thanks

Mark

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Suggest you first start doing one longer ride on the weekends. Add maybe 5 miles to your distance weekly, until you're up to 90-100 miles. Then, suggest you start adding a second ride the next day, up to at least 50 miles. The idea is to prepare yourself for the back-to-back stages, which is tougher than just riding 90 miles one day.

Curious, how many miles and days is the event, and how do you cross the channel with your bike? Sounds like a lot of fun if you devote the time and effort needed to get in shape for it.

Markez79 said:

Any thoughts guys??!

Thanks

Mark

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Can you ride at least 4 times per week? Make at least one weekend ride longer and keep increasing the distance as the weeks go by. For a long ride like multiple 90mi rides on consecutive days, you'll need to build up a lot more endurance and also be able to learn to eat while riding. On shorter rides, up the intensity somewhat.

The more you train the more you can train....

You could get yourself a coach

Markez79 said:

can you recommend a good coach, remember I live in London!

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Have a look at Richard Stern Training (Ric is based in the UK):
http://www.cyclecoach.com/

OK, I'm biased as I am an RST Associate Coach

While I am based in Australia I do take clients from around the world and have had client from UK before. Typically I would work with power meter data since with that I see just about everything, although it can be done with HRM and/or RPE.

There are a number of other good coaches that frequent the forums, try a search for threads on the topic.