6 week century training?

[Strychnine]

By this time last year I was doing 100+ miles / week, on my way to 200 miles / week at the end of last summer. Knocked out a century in early June last year without issue.


This year... I haven't even touched a bike in the last 6 weeks and when I did it was MTB rides, not roadie.


What are the odds of me getting ready for a century in the next 6 weeks? And what are the odds of doing it injury free?

[Ruffdaddy]

Is a century a 100 mile bike race?

[Strychnine]

Yeah, sorry.

100 miles on a bike.

[chuckacosta]

Dang man! 20 miles is about the most I can do in one day. I must say though that all I have is a cross country bike. I can't even fathom the thought of me going 100 miles. But another thing is I'm sure that a ride is WAAAAY different when you do it on a road bike.

Good luck brotha. All you can do is give it a shot. What have you got to lose?

[Beej]

get on the bike and get to training. I bet your legs come back pretty quick.

[SVT Lurch]

What are the odds of me getting ready for a century in the next 6 weeks?

[Lloyd Christmas]Like 1 out of 100[/Lloyd Christmas]

And what are the odds of doing it injury free?

[Mary Swanson]More like 1 out of a million [/Mary Swanson]
[Lloyd Christmas]So you're telling me there's a chance?!![/Lloyd Christmas]

[Ruffdaddy]

Go ahead and set some blood aside. Or get ahold of some EPO. Should be good to go from there!

[AnthonyS]

Are you wanting to do HtH or what?

I'll be at the Collin classic. You want to slog out 50 or 60 then?

[Beej]

You can come ride 60 with me in Muenster this weekend. Its a metric century

[ELVIS]

You can come ride 60 with me in Muenster this weekend. Its a metric century

i'll be there drinking beer and eating sauerkraut!

god bless.

[Vertnut]

There was a schedule posted years ago on how to ride a century in 6 weeks...from scratch. You can do it. The saddle time will be the most difficult part. No days off (other than "easy" 20mile rides). I went from a 4:40 100 to a 10:00 200 in a few weeks. It was Austin to Dallas with a southern breeze, but still...

*edit on that 200 time.

[Roscoe]

You can come ride 60 with me in Muenster this weekend. Its a metric century

I was going to do that one this weekend until I had a "spill" and fucked up my wrists and have a pretty sport road rash on my ass...

[AnthonyS]

You can come ride 60 with me in Muenster this weekend. Its a metric century

I'd love to, but there is a vacation in Italy thing I have to tend to this weekend and next week. I'll be riding a few days over there, and probably getting wasted by some guido on a steely single speed too.

[mustang_marc]

The century can be done, but it'll be a lot easier with training. I did the HtH last year and didn't really train for it. My longest ride in a year had been 40 miles on the road...with a bunch of 20 and 30 mile mtn bike rides mixed in. I only rode about 200 miles in the month leading up to HtH. I made it to about mile 50 trouble free. After that, I started cramping quite a bit...but rest stations start becoming more and more frequent. I was hitting pickles and oranges left and right, but I finished. So train or don't train...it just depends on how miserable you want to be. But you can finish.