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1. You don’t have to do long training sessions
“There’s no need to ride 100 miles before your first 100-mile sportive,” says Simon Jobson, professor of sport and exercise physiology at the University of Winchester and co-author of Ultra-Distance Cycling: An Expert Guide to Endurance Cycling (Bloomsbury). “If you’ve done a 60- or 70-mile ride, you’ll find you have what it takes on the day to go the extra miles.”
2. It is possible to get the ‘experience’ in just one weekend
“If you’re struggling to find the time to do long rides, try doing two shorter rides on successive days. For example, 60 miles on Saturday and 40 miles on Sunday,” says Jobson. “The Sunday ride will help you get used to the sensation of riding when you’re tired, which is how you’re going to feel at the end of your big ride.”
“If you’re struggling to find the time to do long rides, try doing two shorter rides on successive days”
Simon Jobson
3. For a long ride, two
