I just finished the Native Planet Classic on my single speed road bike. 127 miles and 10,000+ ft/gain. First half of it I was flying. Second half nearly left me a corpse. I trained for it, but I really had very little confidence I could do more than about 7000 feet on a single. 22-48 if your curious.

prove it?

I guess I'll have to wait until they post the times on their website. Meanwhile all I got to show for it are sore legs, white poop (what does that mean?), a tee-shirt and some cool socks.

Pics of said white poop or it didn't happen!

But congrats!

I Dont Want To See Poop!

Congratulations!

Nice! I really want to do something like this. How did you train?

White poop? Pigeon?

A pigeon can obviously do 127miles with 10,000+ ft gain. What's there to brag about?

I found a double century training schedule on the internet and then I took the percentage difference between my distance (127) and theirs and then applied it to each of their daily mileages. Then I used the same percentage to figure out the foot gain I would need on each ride to match the mileage progression. I don't know if it's legal to do that, but that is what I did. Essentially that meant that every ride would up with at least 1000' of gain. I used Bikely to map out the routes and figure the total gain per ride and when I neared the biggest rides I did the mountains. I fell short of a few of my training goals, but not by much, though I always felt it wasn't quite enough. In fact, it probably wasn't. I could have used a few more weeks on the schedule and reached a bit higher peak, but who knows--I might have just fallen off. Oh, and I was religious about keeping my training schedule, even if it meant riding at 3 am to fit it into my work-kid schedule.