i am thinking of doing the 200mile sunrise to sunset ride next june so i have 11 months can anyone recommend a training plan i normally try to ride out 3 x a week depending on weather and just started strength twice a week, max i have done is 100 miles but i am not a fast rider so lots of work to do i need a plan to fill in the gaps especially during rubbish weather
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Have you tried plugging all of that into Systm and having it generate your plan(s) for you? (Or Training Peaks, TrainerRoad, etc. - whatever you use) You’re paying for it, after all. And 11 months seems a long time - maybe break your planning into 4/4/3 month blocks or something, with a plan for each, so you can assess progress and adjust as you go?
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i was definitly going to break it down to blocks how do you plug all that into systm i just thought you only had the plans seen
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just not sure where to start speed, hills cadence etc
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I mean if it were ME, working with SYSTM’s 12 week plans, I would break it down into four plans of, say 3/3/3/2 months each, and then consider each plan as a “block” of training. As I understand it, a sunrise to sunset is basically a gran fondo, yes? A long endurance ride? So to me the most important bit of long endurance training is Z2/Z3 butt in the seat time.
Sounds like you have good base fitness already given your distances, so using solely SYSTM’s planning, maybe just string together Century or Mountain Fondo plans every 12 weeks, swapping out some of the endurance rides for longer efforts as you progress?
Similar for the final 8 week plan, but send the end date for the plan as your event date so that you get a couple of taper weeks.
Lots of other ways to do this though. If you’re experienced with training plans, you could use SYSTM’s block training feature to tailor individual 8 week blocks to lead you up to your event - though I’d still lean towards base and butt-in-the-seat type efforts.
