What do you do, in short term preparation for a long ride? Do you adjust your sleep schedule, or your diet, or anything?
I ask because I'm planning to begin a 1200k randonnee nine days after finishing a 600k randonnee. It will be my first 1200k, and my second 600k; last year's 600k, though I finished, was not easy.
It's been a busy randonneuring schedule here! Here's an overview of my Saturdays:
March 24 PA Randonneurs 200k
March 31 free
April 7 DC Randonneurs fleche (395k)
April 14 PA Randonneurs 300k
April 21 PA Randonneurs fleche (365k)
April 28 free
May 5 PA Randonneurs 400k
May 12 free
May 19 PA Randonneurs 600k (day 1 of 2)
May 26 free
June 2 DC Randonneurs 1200k (day 3 of 4)
All my randonneuring events so far have gone well. I've spent my two "free" weekends helping my wife in the garden (hard work, but pretty different from long distance cyclling... and obviously very important, since I'm away all the other weekends). Now I'm about to have another free weekend, in which I'll be doing a little travelling, and no cycling.
On weekdays I go to work, which means I ride about 13 miles, broken up into two 5.5 mile rides and two of 1 mile rides.
So here's my question: from a 'recovery' point of view, to be prepared for the DC 1200 as well as possible, what's the best way to spend the nine days between the PA 600k and the DC 1200k? I'll be going to work at least five or six of those days, but I can ride slow if that's the best thing to do. What do you do, in short term preparation for a long ride? Do you adjust your sleep schedule, or your diet, or anything?
Originally Posted by
atwl77
... no more politics, YAYY!!
Well, I think you might be the only person on this subforum who's posting from Malaysia, so you're not likely to get into a heated argument about it... so I would't worry about it. Anyway, as randonneurs we talk about the weather as one of the things we have to deal with, not like we can do anything about it... not that different from politics, really.