Doug's tips

As we get to the pointy end of the training schedule, Doug, Wonder-husband, cycling guru and voted best "most muscular" pose in age group 45-55 has been giving us some good tips and ideas for where to train.

Such as: don't ride with flat tyres. Or tyres with any kind of give in them whatsoever. Rock hard tyres are easier to ride on.

Eat and drink regularly while you are riding. Make sure you have at least a couple of mouthfuls of food every half an hour.

Stop for breaks like it's the actual ride i.e. every 25-30kms for a few mins.

Train with varying terrain: hills and recovery sections that you can repeat until the recovery sections aren't quite recovery sections any more. Do interval training with speed too: fast then recover, repeat.

So looming in the next few weeks is this 3 Valleys ride that he has circulated. Check it out and see what you think.

Here's a overview. I'm not sure yet how we would approach it from West End:

Zoom in to the map on the original page

There looks like there might be a few hills in there!