Do you have a mileage goal to reach before RAGBRAI?
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Assuming your outdoor (road) training begins in March, 900-1200 mi. from that point should do it. Back way off the week leading up to the ride.
I should have about 2000 / 2500 before then. Some will be real miles, some will be on the stationary bike (substituting Time for Miles). I started my training this week, just doing easy spinning for the first two weeks, let the legs get used to riding again.
My plan is 3,000 before the first day of RAGBRAI. Last year I only had 2,300 due to problems with Lefty (knee). Lefty should be fixed now, due to injections of sodium hyaluronate. http://www.drugs.com/mtm/sodium-hyaluronate-injectable.html Hope to have better RAGBRAI with more fun and less pain!!!!!
CyclingRoberto said: Do you have a mileage goal to reach before RAGBRAI? Mine is 5000 miles. What’s yours?
El Zippo. My goal is to just get to the Mississippi alive and there’s no rush to do that…it would be too bad if there was a rush at my age…and I tend to let too many things get in the way of mileage goals leading up to RAG. But I really do enjoy the week, just the same. Cheers.
Any idea how many miles one can go in a spin class? I’ll be spinning it until spring, but I’d like to get 1,000 to 1,500 in real road miles before RAGBRAI.
Hlwolfgram said: Any idea how many miles one can go in a spin class? I’ll be spinning it until spring, but I’d like to get 1,000 to 1,500 in real road miles before RAGBRAI.
What I do is kind of figure out what my average pace is for that type of riding, and do a ‘time to miles’ type conversion. I know that the speedo / odometer on my stationary bike is not consistent with my personal experience, so I just sort of gustimate.
I plan on getting a lot of my ‘base miles’ in this week using things like the ‘Spinervals’ and other training videos. It’s way better than nothing, and I do count them as miles for training purposes.
Steve
Gee, I feel like a slacker. First year had about 500 miles, but was running about 20 miles/ week. Second year…no clue on miles, but ran a marathon a month before RAGBRAI, last year, got in 800 miles pre ragbrai as my knee gave out and I couldn’t run. Never had any trouble doing the miles on ragbrai as long as I ate enough. I plan on 1000 road miles b4 ragbrai this year (I don’t count trainer miles).
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