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Bike and Hike Training

  • 19-11-2012 12:37am
    #1
    mycro89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 560 ✭✭✭


    Hi All,

    I am new to Boards.ie and so this is my first time posting so thanks in advance for the comments, recommendations, tips that I will receive from other members.

    Basically, I am relatiavely fit as I play alot of gaa, but with the Gaa season ending in september the fitness levels tend to drop over the winter period, but biking and hiking would be new areas that I intend on exploring to keep fit over the winter and well into the summer.


    I intend on doing a charity bike and hike on the same next summer and was hoping someone out there might have a training program, based on experience or having done such an event in the past, and so, they may wish to share with myself and others that view this topic.

    The Cycle in question based on previous years would be a distance of approx 100 km.


    Thanks in advance


Comments

  • #2
    mycro89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 560 ✭✭✭mycro89


    Any input to the above from fellow Boards.ie members much appreciated.


  • #3
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,393 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    There are plenty of threads in the main forum aimed at beginners looking to do sportives and one or 2 of the training logs started out that way if you do a search

    I guess to start with, could you give us an idea of how much cycling you currently do? Any at all, or any history of cycling? Have you sorted out a bike, and if so what type?

    To start off with it's really a matter of getting out on the bike an building up a bit to get a general feel for your level of (cycling) fitness. You may be generally fit, but cycling tends to focus on different muscles than many other sports, so it can take a bit of time to adapt. Having said that there are plenty of posters around here who have gone from virtually no cycling to being able to comfortably handle 100km sportives within a few months


  • #4
    Mycro 89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭Mycro 89


    Beasty wrote: »
    There are plenty of threads in the main forum aimed at beginners looking to do sportives and one or 2 of the training logs started out that way if you do a search

    I guess to start with, could you give us an idea of how much cycling you currently do? Any at all, or any history of cycling? Have you sorted out a bike, and if so what type?

    To start off with it's really a matter of getting out on the bike an building up a bit to get a general feel for your level of (cycling) fitness. You may be generally fit, but cycling tends to focus on different muscles than many other sports, so it can take a bit of time to adapt. Having said that there are plenty of posters around here who have gone from virtually no cycling to being able to comfortably handle 100km sportives within a few months


    I've purchased a road racer over the past year and spent over the grand mark, but haven't done much with it since, approx 150 miles in total if even since i got it. With work and gaa commitments the bike was always pushed a side, but giving it my full attention as of now!!

    When would be a good time to start training for the event, I believe it would be taking place next July and don't want to be burned out by then if I start too early.


  • #5
    Hmmzis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭Hmmzis


    Mycro 89 wrote: »


    I've purchased a road racer over the past year and spent over the grand mark, but haven't done much with it since, approx 150 miles in total if even since i got it. With work and gaa commitments the bike was always pushed a side, but giving it my full attention as of now!!

    When would be a good time to start training for the event, I believe it would be taking place next July and don't want to be burned out by then if I start too early.

    Get your base endurance up on the bike. From GAA you would already have a good level of fittness. That means to just go out on the bike and enjoy it. Since the event is far away you might want to take it easy the first few months or so. Try to get as many long rides as you can over the winter. Keep it steady on the flats and dial back on the hills. If you have a HR monitor then use that to pace yourself.


  • #6
    kuro_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,037 ✭✭✭kuro_man


    Spin1: do 5km
    (if you rear end is sore, rest for a few days, repeat Spin1)

    Spins 2 - 4: do 10 - 15 km
    Spins 3 - 6: do 20 km
    Spins 7 - 10: do 30 km
    Join a club
    Spins 10 - 20: do 40km - 50km
    Do 60km sportive
    Train 40km - 70km
    loose 5kg, preferably from the belly
    Do 100km sportive
    Buy about 14 saddles until you find one the you like
    ...
    ...
    Do Ring of Kerry
    ...
    Buy expensive high-end carbon fibre bike
    Buy about 14 saddles with TI rails until you find one the you like
    ...
    ...
    Do Wicklow 200
    ...
    ...

    Adjust timing/distance according to fitness, injuries and pain.


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