How many months training
 

How many months training will i have to do to be able to do 500miles of Great Britain?

Im just starting and would like to know what rough schedualed date i should set this charity event for :thumb:

Pretty hard to answer, we don't know anything about you or the ride. Everyone responds differently to training, just start doing longer rides and see how you feel. If you get to the point where you feel comfortable doing long rides, then you can go crazy.

Well, I'm not sure what this ride is like -- i.e., is it a recreational ride or a race? Are you looking to "just finish" or do you want be able to ride hard the whole time?

There are various training plans published online that can take a new rider to a century in 8 weeks.

There are a couple aspects of riding you need to figure out before embarking on a long ride like you're mentioning. There's the physical aspect -- i.e., you need to be fit enough to do it. There's the riding skills aspect. And there's the "taking care of your body" aspect -- i.e., what to drink, what to eat, how often, etc. There are guidelines for all these things, but when you're riding 500 some miles -- you need to be doing, not thinking.

Basically, get out on the bike and start riding. Embark on one of the century training plans. Ride a century... See how you feel afterwards -- i.e., do you want to get on your bike the next day or do you want to lie in bed and hope you never have to move again? One day you'll wake up and 500 miles will suddenly seem feasible; i.e., you'll know when you're ready.

In Great Britain...4 months. Now if you were in Italy it would be 5 months.

Thanks alot guys, really helps!

Give us a little help:

1) how many days,

2) how many vertical feet,

3) what are your goals (i.e. survive, finish stron, compete, win.)

4) what's your starting point.

Then we can give you a meaningful answer.

Can I get a link to said program?

yeah seriously. And since when does the internet have reliable data, I thought that's what books were for and those too lazy to go to their libraries and used the internet for the "same" data were schmucks.

STP training
 

This is the training plan for the STP. It gets you to 100mi in 8 weeks and then some. The ride is a 200 mile 2 day ride that is dead flat. http://www.cascade.org/EandR/stp/stp_mileage.cfm

This would qualify as a competitive training program for the STP.