There's no perfect formula to know when you've trained enough to meet your next goal. However, the 200-300-400-600 progression is a really good guide in my experience. Do you need to fill the 400-600 gap with a 500k? No, I really don't think so.
I'd like to believe: if you can ride a 100k, you can ride a 200k if you can ride a 200k, you can ride a 300k if you can ride a 300k, you can ride a 400k if you can ride a 400k, you can ride a 600k if you can ride a 600k, you can ride a 1200k after all, isn't one of the greatest barriers to our own accomplishments what *we believe we can do?* when I started doing brevets, the closest brevets were a minimum of 3-4 hours away. I did my first 400k before ever doing a 300k but I had been training and doing many 100mile+ rides in the mountains which added a considerable amount of difficulty. So you see, i was convinced that my mountainous 200k's had adequately prepared me for a flat/rolling 400k. and it did. i think largely, because i believed it would. once you get on the other side of your first complete brevet series, your conception of what you can accomplish on a bicycle will be drastically different. mine was. 200s and 300s are a fair bit easier because you don't have to worry about the sleep monster. 400s - the sleep monster begin to rear it's ugly head at times. 600s - the sleep monster cometh however, i'd rather ride a 600 any day than a 400 for some reason. 400's are just my tough spot. something about getting to the bed for a brief nap before riding the last 200k on a 600k is far more enticing than just finishing a 400k. i did my first few years of brevets + my first 1000k on my Romulus. see you in Paris! On Friday, May 23, 2014 8:05:14 AM UTC-4, Tim wrote: > > I know several of you in the group ride brevets so it's time to pick your > brains. I've taken them up again this year. In 2011 i completed a 200k, had > a DNF 300k followed by finishing a planned 175 mile ride. I've had no rides > over 50-60 miles since until this year, got fat, etc. I decided I needed a > goal to help motivate me so I put PBP 2015 on the calendar. I've lost over > 45 lbs and am loving riding again. I did a 200k a couple of weeks ago and > have a 300k next week which I'm nervous about but fairly confident. My > question is about beyond that. I'm wondering if I need to progress to the > other distances. In other words, should I try 350k before 400 then 500 > before 600? Or do you think that by the time I've gone 300k that the base > is built up enough to sustain the larger jumps in time and distance? Riv > content: I'm riding this on my Homer and loving it! I'd like to complete > the whole series (200,300,400, 600) this summer so I'll have a good taste > for what's in store next year in Paris. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
