Quote Originally Posted by Bike Goddess View Post
As an ALC alumni I can tell you that there aren't a lot of "tough" hills. What you need is time in the saddle and back to back rides. What was tough for me (and I had 3000 miles on my pretraining rides before the ALC) was the back to back days. No rest days and even the shorter day turned out to be a hilly one.

Keep up your training and you will do fine!
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BG,

Yeah, Quadbuster didn't seem that tough. OTOH, we didn't have to climb it after 2 days of riding. Then there's the Evil Twins that I keep hearing about. Are they about the same difficulty as Quadbuster? Shorter & steeper? Longer?

I had Friday off, so I was able to do 3 back-to-back longish rides. While I wasn't as fresh on the second or third day, I wasn't exactly struggling either. I take that as a very good sign.

Any specific tips you can offer for riding longer distances on consecutive days?

Less than 2 months to go until Day 0!

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Back to your regularly scheduled Tierra Bella thread. I'm still pondering which route I'll take. Prolly won't know until the day of the ride.

-- Melissa