simonhill wrote: ↑12 Apr 2021, 8:12pm
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Just ride your bike as often as possible, even a few miles to keep your bum in tune with the saddle. I ride about 15 miles per day on my daily seafront ride and have no concerns about tripling that if I go on tour. In the winter when I do most of my touring (somewhere hot) I have no problems with a 7 week layoff over Christmas, etc. I am a bit slow for the first few days, but nothing of consequence.
If I rode 15 miles every day plus longer rides then I wouldn't be talking about training up.
I am starting from a base of not riding during the lockdown (because the group ride was against the rules) to riding once a week for about 20-25 miles.
I have aspirations to ride three times a week, but getting back on the bike after a layoff has amply demonstrated that you use it or lose it.
For my last tour I trained specifically, extending mileage to over 50 miles and making sure that I rode 3 days back to back over 30 miles because one long day and a rest doesn't make a tour (well, it could, I suppose, but probably not a JOGLE).
As I stated at the start of the thread i was asking the question "having seen people talking about starting training one year with a plan to do the ride the following year".
6 weeks zero to hero seems a reasonable time scale, and a stake in the ground for the "I really, really ought to start training" moment.