Max distance covered in a month?

Simsydav said:

Im pretty fast on my bike, and I got a new bicycle this winter, its a nice racing bicycle. Ive never ridden in any races, dont think there are any in my area, so thats annoying.

As long as it's not a short distance racing road bike, but one you can do a century on without giving up because of a sore body, then that should be good.

Simsydav said:

But anyway, what would be the maximum distance a cyclist (not going at top speed, as I would be worn out after the first few days) to travel in a month?

As much as you can possibly do man. Generally, if your event that you want to train for is say 2 hours, you should be doing at least one 2-3 hour ride a week. I have no idea what you should do if your event is 8 hours though. My guess is that you should still be doing long rides, say at least one 5 hour ride a week.

Simsydav said:

I worked it out, well rough estimate that the distance would be between 500 and 600 miles (as I simply did distance between the cities, rather than following roads). Also does anyone know about the terrain between the two cities? Im not going to be doing it soon, not until July, so that I can get some money organised to get out there, and come back and survive while Im there hehe.

It should be pretty flat terrain there. How long is this ride? How many days is it? At 10-15mph as you sad over 500-600mi that's roughly 50hours of ride time...

So divide that by the number of days to find how much you want to ride each day, then use that as a basis for your training. If it ends up being like 4 hours a day, I'd say then in June you should be able to do 4 4 hour rides a week without feeling bad or cramping, and then take it easy the last week or two before you want to do this epic ride. Remember that Gatorade is absolutely useless to you; you will need to bring something much more substantial to eat along the way. A cold sandwich or anything that's healthy with a lot of carbs and some protein and various other nutrients...Long rides are a lot more draining, and inadequate energy and nutrition will hinder your ability to prepare for a long trip like that.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for that, Ill start training up now.

At first I thought it would take up to a month, but Im starting to think now that I can do it well within a month, but Ill start doing some proper training and then Ill be able to see what I can do.