Endurance Training and Riding — 3-Article Bundle
Three eArticles in PDF format, stored in your account for download and printing.
Includes the eArticles: Beyond the Century, Nutrition for 100K and Beyond, and Mastering the Long Ride.
$13.50 — scroll down to purchase
Want to improve your cycling? Ride more easy miles. Coach John Hughes’ distance-riding trilogy in one cost-saving bundle, at a 10% savings over purchasing each article individually. (Premium Members save an additional 15% with their coupon code.)
What’s inside
- Beyond the Century: training plans from your first century up to 200, 300, 400, 600 and 1,000 km rides and longer
- Nutrition for 100K and Beyond: how to fuel your engine before, during and after endurance rides
- Mastering the Long Ride: planning, pacing, group riding, problem-solving and equipment lists for the long haul
About this bundle
Coach John Hughes emphasizes that low intensity endurance riding brings about specific physiological changes that don’t result from harder training. These include improving your ability to utilize fat for energy, your capacity to store glycogen in your muscles and liver, your muscular endurance by increasing the number of mitochondria, and your neuromuscular efficiency of pedaling.
Beyond the Century describes training principles and different training intensities and how to integrate these into a season-long program of long rides. Hughes lays out an 8-week plan to build up to a century and then a 200-km ride (about 125 miles), a plan to ride a 200 km every month, and training plans for rides of 200, 300, 400, 600 and 1,000 km and longer. Each plan includes both endurance riding and intensity training.
Nutrition for 100K and Beyond provides you with the information you need to fuel your engine before, during and after endurance rides. The article describes how to estimate your personal caloric burn rate while riding, the importance of both carbohydrates and fat, and how to meet your hydration and electrolyte requirements during rides of several hours and longer, with product examples evaluated against your nutrition needs.
Mastering the Long Ride gives you the skills you need to finish your endurance rides: planning your ride, preparing your equipment and nutrition, getting ready mentally, pacing yourself, riding in groups, solving problems and pushing through discouragement. It includes sample equipment lists for rides of 100 to 200 km and 400 km and longer.
Coach Hughes has been cycling for over 30 years, including completing seven 1,200 km brevets and the Race Across America (RAAM) and winning three qualifiers for RAAM. In this bundle, he shares his accumulated wisdom from his personal riding experience and years of coaching.
Note: these are eArticles. Your purchase will be stored as PDF files in your customer account on the website for downloading and printing.
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