Originally Posted by
wolfpack
day-um!!! 4 days? i do want to do this, but maybe do it in 6-7 days....just pedaling my ass off for 4 straight days and not doing anything else...meh...
but, congratulations!! awesome job...i'm gonna do this...if not this fall sometime, then next may...
Yeah, 6-7 days would be perfect.
The best adviced I can give to anyone thinking of doing it, unless you're a CAT-1 or CAT-2 rider, get yourself the
lowest gearing you can - and make sure you grind it out, hour after hour, in that gear, without
ever tiring.
I thought I would only use my lowest combo (26t chainring x 28t cog) on the steepest of climbs; like when I was doing Mt. Mitchell. Boy was I wrong. If you're going to do a hundred (or more) miles a day, in those hills, the only thing you can do is just hunker down in your granny-gear, and s-l-o-w-l-y grind it out, mile after mile, mountain after mountain.
I think all those hours I spent on my trainer,(30 miles per day during the week, for the last 8 wks) really helped my stamina.
If you just did AoMM, in 8:11 I think you said, then you'd have no trouble doing the entire Pkwy in 6-7 days.