century ride

[TrekTheKaty]

Hi gystme -

Here is a detailed training plan chart, with respect to mileage. There's no way I'd be able to fit all that biking in, personally, but this should give you a rough idea of how to build up your mileage over time.
http://www.actc.org/train/first_century.php

Here's a site I happened across (while I was looking up info on back strengthening using yoga) which isn't super-specific (I take that back, it does get pretty specific in parts!) and seems to give lots of good pointers
http://www.athleta.net/chi/2009/05/2...y-ride-part-1/
http://www.athleta.net/chi/2009/06/1...y-ride-part-2/

Good luck and welcome to TE.

This looks close to what I did. I rode 4-5 days a week, with a long ride on the weekend. I added 10% or 5 miles to my long ride each weekend up to 60-65 (35, 40, 45, 15, 50, 15, 55, 15, 60). Add recovery weekends in as your long ride builds, so you don't burn out. If you're century will be hilly, you might want to make a conscious effort one day a week to ride a hilly route or ride portions of the actual course, if possible.

My BIL's longest ride was 50, but he rides 20 miles pretty-much every day.

[channlluv]

Woohoo! I'm already riding a metric half-century! Well, almost. I'm a couple miles shy, but I could do it.

Okay, I had to go look up a conversion table to see how far a metric century was in relation to miles...62.something...so if I ride 63 miles, that's a metric century, and I can already do 30 miles.

I think I can add a few miles each week as the training programs here suggest. I'm on a mountain bike with mtb wheels...that's slowing me down, but I like the stability. (This from the woman who's wrecked the thing - hard - at least twice since October.)

There's a metric century as part of the Tour of Poway coming in October. That's the ride where DD, age 10 at the time, and I road the 18 mile course, which included the 3-mile-long, 8% Poway Grade. I was hoping we could do the 26-mile course this year, but that's my light training ride these days. Not really much of a challenge, except for my favorite training course doesn't have an 8% grade in it.

Hmmm...could I do a metric century by October? Mebbe.

Roxy

[sarahspins]

I'm aiming for a metric on my hybrid in September... I have NO idea if I'll make it because I'm not halfway there yet, but it is a goal, all the same