Your First Century Ride Training Plan

About this plan

This plan is built for your first 100 mile ride, start to finish. It is shaped around a long, hard day on the bike, running 12 weeks at a solid 7 hours a week, so you know exactly what you are signing up for.

The load builds in three-week blocks and then backs off, so the work actually lands instead of burying you. The hard sessions are dosed the way the research says fitness is built, never piled on as junk volume, and your endurance, your climbing and the way you put the power down all get their turn.

Held to from the first week, it will have you ready for your first 100 mile ride on the day it counts.

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Common questions

Who is this plan for?

Anyone with your first 100 mile ride on the calendar. It is written for a long, hard day on the bike, and it assumes you can train consistently at around 7 hours a week.

How much training does it involve?

You are looking at 12 weeks and a solid 7 hours a week, arranged in three-week blocks that push and then recover so the fitness actually sticks.

How is the plan delivered?

A single payment drops the whole plan into TrainingPeaks for you, laid out session by session in plain English so nothing is left to guesswork.

Want it built around your life instead of off the shelf? See Plan Only.