Hiya

First year on a road bike here, and I have one major goal picked out. I really want to do this ride that goes completely around Jotunheimen, a mountain range I've been hiking and climbing in for years. Very very scenic route, an area I love, lots and lots of HILLS... 430 km, that's 267 miles.

I'm not sure if I want to do it already next year, though, or save it for later. My biggest constraint is TIME for training. I don't want to just finish, I want to finish it in style Which means really training for it.

I read an excellent tip here somewhere about increasing mileage for endurance events (half of weekly total should be one long ride, increasing by 10 % every week until you're at 75% of the goal) and I've set up this neat little training schedule (love spreadsheets ). But I'm going to have trouble finding time to do the increasingly longer rides every weekend for the final 6-8 weeks. I have a fair bit of time during weekdays though, to stretch my commute.

So how would it work to NOT do a really long ride once a week, but just increase daily mileage instead? I think maybe family bliss depends on my not doing more than one half-day ride in the weekend....