Originally Posted by
ricrunner
I am just giving you some advice, as to training. I came back to cycling a 57, for touring and camping exploits. I trained for about 3 months, mainly to get use to being back in the saddle. Then took off on a 5000km trip. I realised then, that I really did not need to train as hard as I had been doing in those 3 months. You just get better and better, each day on the road. I would if I was you, to get out and do some smaller tours, overnighters, and maybe a week here and there, just to get use to doing day rides back to back. That is what helps you the most on big tours.
very sound advice
and even decades ago, I realized it was great to plan short days for the first few days, makes it nice to ease into it.
and yes, regular riding as much as you can, not necessarily long days, is fantastic to get your body accustomed to riding, your muscles used to to, and refining positional changes like seat height, angle, this that and the other thing.