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smithma1954
Question:
Best training for a long bike ride - with complications!
I have a froend who is 65 and was a fiarly good distance cylcist. He was then diagnosed with parkinsons, which is in early stages and copntrolled by drugs. Worse still he had a fall from his bike last year and has had to have his left hip replaced and then the left knee replaced. He is now back on the bike although a lot slower pace wise and has mobility issues getting on and off the bike which we have resolved as far as possible.
He has been planning a bike ride to southern Spain for next year and needs to get in some serious training for this - the plan was to do about 60 miles per day (leaving from Spalding in Lincs. The bike has been set up for for this gear ratio wise etc. but I feel he needs to start planning the training.
Can anyone help with ideas on what he should be doing over the next year. BTW he plans to do John O'Groats to Spalding in October as a warm up!!!!
Asked by smithma1954 - 2 answers - 37 weeks 6 days ago
apm5060
The best way to prepare for this is to work up to the endurance of the actual ride (i.e. if the event is 100 miles, train up to 100 miles). Start with a mileage you find manageable and increase by 10% each week and then take a week to recover. Do this until the event or until the desired training distance is reached.
Submitted 37 weeks 6 days ago by apm5060tresor
Focus on getting a base fitness first by just going out on the bike and riding on how you feel. once you have a ok fitness level plan on two longish rides a week, start at a milage which you are up to and increase the distance of these until 5miles a week until you are doing distance wanted. On one of these rides try to do the last 30 to hour hard to get the most out of it, remember to recover well between rides. Fill the rest of the week with one fast session of about an hour, but make that one hard, make sure you fill the rest of the time with rest not more hard rides. When you get nearer to the event one mounth to go try doing 2 or 3 back to back days of 65 miles but a comfortuble pace.
Submitted 26 weeks 4 days ago by tresor