Longer Morning Ride – BionicOldGuy

I’ve modified my schedule so Monday is my longest experience of the week. This is the experience I’ll be ramping up every week till I do a metric century a while later this month (considered one of two Strava challenges I signed up for in March). Yesterday’s experience (on Strava right here) was 41 miles in slightly below 3 hours half-hour, leaving me pleasantly drained. I had meant this to be my first “Beaumont block” of the yr, however needed to reduce it quick as a result of I needed to repair a flat. I received this time period from Mark Beaumont’s description of his around the world biking report (The Man Who Cycled the World).

He achieved his wonderful common day by day mileage by using 4 blocks of 4 hours every day, with a brief break in between, after which one longer day by day break. So I did virtually one 4 hour block right now. I don’t assume I’d have been able to get again on the bike and do one other block after a brief break, that’s one thing I’d must work as much as. I can see myself doing probably two blocks. But not 4, and definitely not averaging 4 for 78 days in a row which is what Mark did for the report.