Training for endurance events - random tips from you long-distance gals?

[lph]

couple of comments:
[QUOTE=maillotpois;443198] 400 k or so is a good distance. I would definitely work up to it, brevet style, and do a few 200ks, then a 300k about a month before the main event. ]

This sounds like very sound advice. I'd be tempted to skip the longest training ride, but I know that that's probably where the unknown elements are lurking.

[Extra pair of shorts to change into and put the old ones on over the new ones at the 100 mile to go mark]

[The hotel room at the 100 mile to go mark instead of the out and back half way point – good timing]
I didn't understand this, what was this for? Could you choose rest stops?

[- Don't underestimate the last 100 miles. The last part of the ride was all "home territory" for me, and I never thought it would take me 11 hours to ride 110 miles, but it did!]
Yup, that's just what happened on my recent climbing trip. I might as well have crawled on my hands and knees up the last pitches...

[maillotpois]

Re the hotel - that was for a 600k brevet. You can pretty much choose your rest stops (aside from designated check in points). I am not sure how that jives with your event and what your event's rest stops are, designated or otherwise. But my take away from mine was that it was good planning to delay the rest/sleep stop as long as possible and get as many miles in before that.