Training tips or links?

[blueskies]

I paid $100 to purchase a training plan from trainingpeaks.com last year, and defintely thought it was a worthwhile investment. I used it to train for Cycle Oregon, a week long ride around Oregon. The plan that I followed was Joe Friel's Experience Plus 501 Tour plan.

One thing that's different in training for a tour vs. a century is that you want your body to get used to doing back-to-back long rides.

[tulip]

Here's an eight-week training guide for Cycle NC, a week long bike ride across North Carolina that I'm considering doing this year (although the route is not the greatest). I've done weeklong tours and rides, and I just try to get out and ride a few times during the week with a longer ride or two on the weekends. I'm sure that if I were a bit more systematic, however, I would be able to go faster and farther.

http://www.ncsports.org/cncdetail1.php?id=23