Quote Originally Posted by cunninghamair View Post
I'm thinking of joining in my husband's first century October 12th.

Any opinions? Advice? Suggestions? Concerns? Tell me I'm crazy?

I can't seem to find much on training plans for centuries (there are a million marathon training plans out there!) My husband's plan was to ride as far as fast as he could and I've been trying to reign him in (he finally took a HR monitor on his hilly ride this morning and I made him take a rest day last week).
Bicycling magazine has a 10-week plan that's been widely quoted and used.

Here's a 12-week plan that I put together for a local century ride that we're supporting with a training program for new riders:

http://www.kidsarus.org/centennial/b...e/schedule.pdf

If you ride regularly, you eventually can build up a level of fitness where you can ride a century just about any derned day you want to, and I don't mean that you have to train like you're going to ride the Tour de France. If you work up to where you can stay in the saddle four or five hours at a stretch, you can do a century and get a good time for it as well...

Tom