training to cycle across europe

[kevmcd]

hey

me and 2 other friends were thinking about cycling across europe next summer for charity.

we are thinking about a few routes and they all roughly end up around 3500 km,

were all relativley fit but i was just wondering what type of training and how much should i do to prepare for it.

 

[Coordinator37]

The type of training you'll want to do depends on how much experience biking you and your friends have, and how far you want to go each day.

In general, I would recommend slowly working your mileage up to slightly over what you want to average with 1 or 2 longish rides a week. The goal of this is to build endurance, and make sure you can actually finish a days ride.

Also, since you probably don't want to spend all day every day training for this, you should do a shorter, somewhat faster ride every day. The main goal being increased recovery speed (you want your body to recover from the days ride before the next day's ride starts).

 

[noumad]

Hey. It's a great plan. COngratulations!
5 years ago my wife and I cycled across Europe from POrtugal to Turkey and it was a great experience. We want to do it again.
Prior to the ride the only training I did was 40km a day (cycling to work) for 5 days a week for 2o years and some mountain hiking. My wife on the other hand had no training at all.

We did 100km a day on average and we were fine.

Good luck!

Bart Z.
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