Pacing a century or 200k.
Curious how you guys approach it. This is without a run afterwards just a bike ride. I would guess just ride around .75. I couldn't find much in the coggan book.
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Curious how you guys approach it. This is without a run afterwards just a bike ride. I would guess just ride around .75. I couldn't find much in the coggan book.
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This past Saturday I rode a hilly 100 in 4:32, IF at the end was .81-82. I was .86-87 at half way, when I had a turkey sammich, a couple cookies and some lemonade...not the best nutrition plan
. In my experience, if you ride the first hour at .75, you should then be able to ramp it up and sit between .8-85 for the remainder of the ride. If there are any hills, particular short steep ones, keep it in your pants and don't go crazy. Those spikes will come back to hurt you. But if you working and riding steady, you should be able to really hammer the last 45-60'. In my opinion, always better to finish rides like that very, very strong, almost like a TT. That's a HUGE confidence booster, being a hero vs a zero at the end.
Bill: when you say power drops by 7% as distances double". What exactly do you mean? 7% from what you start at, or average power from the first half of the ride?
Is that improper pacing or lack of endurance, or just kinda how it goes?
thanks again.
This may all sound academic until you realize that I completed a Super Randonneur series (200,300,400,600k) in order to qualify for Paris-Brest-Paris, a 1230k brevet I just completed last week. Go long, baby!