How To Ride Ultra Distance – Beginner Ultra Endurance Cycling Tips For Your First Ultra Ride! Part 2

Hello all and welcome back to the channel! In this video I want to lower the veil on ultra endurance cycling. This is something you can learn, I learned the hard way through many training hours. These are the tips I believe will help you nail your first ultra endurance training ride. This is Part 2 with tips 6 to 10, YOU CAN DO IT!

This Ride – https://www.strava.com/activities/11333002243

0:00 Intro
3:15 Tip 6
5:57 Tip 7
9:20 Tip 8
14:33 Tip 9
17:53 Tip 10
19:34 The Breakdown

all right I see the appeal CU this place Bonkers should be fun this tip is probably the most important yet least spoken about the icy anyway looks promising doesn’t it hello and welcome back to part two of this how to ride ultra distance video these are just the tips I would give someone if they wanted to up their distance and Venture into Ultra cycling just things I’ve learned over the years and if you’re into Ultra cycling then you’re in the right place because videos I make are about Ultra cycling training kit and Adventures I’m racing All Points North in the next few weeks and then the Transcontinental race in July so I’ll cover those as I go subscribe and follow along for more ultracycling content in the previous video I set out on a 200 mile Journey from my home in Portsmouth to chedda gorge in Somerset one of the hardest climbs in the UK along the way I wanted to give my top 10 tips while on the bike throughout that Journey if you haven’t watched that one already I’d suggest to start there managed to get through the first five tips right across the south of the UK managed to do the climb now still have around about 70 or 80 miles to get home and five more tips to cover and I think probably some of the more important ones if you can stick around to the end I’ll do a small amount of analysis of the numbers calories distance that sort of stuff and show you what goes into getting through a ride like this so without waffling on too much let’s get back to the ride and pick up where I left off last [Music] time H lovely [Music] [Applause] [Music] ah [Music] go [Music] [Music] just past 140 mil so we’re doing all right probably try and keep up with these tips because pretty soon you won’t be able to see me that’s going to Le nicely into tip number six being seen being on the road for this long can be risky so do what you can to be seen that’s what I do today I’ve got two sets of Lights from and back I’m expecting to ride through a little bit of Darkness not a lot that’s a hard eye pedal that’s plenty for where I’ll be when it gets dark I do also have a reflective harness I was given on a previous Ultra race it’s really good but unfortunately sometimes this can be a contact spot you don’t want it to be I got hit by two do twice in 6 months and could have been worse I did everything I could but I think there’s only so much you can do to do what you can it’s not fun I got my head smashed in twice would not recommend it so be safe be seen especially if you’re going to be riding through the night depending on the event and the distance you might be riding all night long could be very dodgy so look after yourselves don’t get run over it is not fun anyway update I’m feeling pretty good you probably see from the profile this part of the ride is uh a lot less severe than what we’ve done already good opportunity to make up some time and enjoy myself a bit I am enjoying myself but more so now the temperature dropped a bit and I’m riding downhill let’s go home [Music] [Music] [Music] that was Solsbury it’s yeah feeling pretty good still about 155 miles something like that on the decline slightly I’m down to just water so I’ll get some sugar should be fine so tip number seven try and do this while I’m climbing tip number seven is bike fit might seem obvious but those things that cause issues on Long rides cause major issues on very long rides if you get into the end of 100 miles and something saw it’s going to get worse and worse you got to be really careful with bike fit I had a bike fit years ago always transferred the measurements from bike to bike and not had issues tweaked it a bit here and there H bought some shoes as well recently that were just slightly too tight really disappointing thought they’d be perfect but it’s not worth the risk on a really long ride it’s going to hurt and hurt for a long time there you go tip number seven rush it a little bit but climbing this hill take an hour me a tad I think it’s up here and going to roll downward again for a while most of the way back I think I don’t think there’s that much climbing left maybe like 3 hours riding it’s not too bad looking forward to that whole bath got a really nice looking pizza in the freezer too [Music] [Music] these Flies what is going on I can’t even eat on the Move there’s too many flies my mouth everywhere [Music] okay we are at 173 mil and feeling pretty good starting to feel a little bit worse to wear but like I said before sugar and caffeine makes such a difference had a c of coke neckar almost straight away feel great so I’m now detoured off the route I planned originally same distance but rather than coming to Portsmouth from the back way I’m making a be line for Southampton to be honest I cannot stand these flies don’t know what it is you know every now and then you ride through a cloud of flies and it’s like not very nice it’s like that but every couple hundred yards Grim ready for tip number eight now nearly home nearly there two more to go tip number eight Mak seem fairly obvious and a lot of these are they just become much more serious pacing I would work on pacing because I’ve been for a number of rides with people who want to do a long ride not used to it straight away out the gates go like the clappers and it’s pretty normal to be honest i’ have the same question every time please don’t RI my legs off for one because we’ll both regret later and two can you still ride that pace in 12 hours time the answer is usually no so be very careful don’t chase the average speed that’s a pit for a lot of people fall into and uh I really don’t do that myself just get used to watching it fall away if it has to what’s most important is enjoying the ride I started earlier on today I sort of mid 17 High 17s average just about hanging on to 16 doesn’t matter because right now I feel good I feel very good and as you can see there’s obviously an amount of rolling with the punches and dealing with things as they come up no bonking though no major issues I paced by heart rate roughly zone two so if you work out what your heart rate zones are and then zone two is a pretty good place to start that’s it I tend to float between Zone 2 and Tempo endurance and Tempo and on the climes more depends on the climb today J Gorge was the main goal so went quite hard there but the whole rest of the ride zone two consequently I feel fine keep the sugar topped up apart from that I can carry on for a lot longer I’m not going to but I could in case you’re wondering we’re now at 175 mil been riding for just over 12 hours a couple of stops nothing major I feel like I’ve been riding for 12 hours but not in a bad way only thing I’m starting to struggle with it’s holding this camera up there with me rough [Music] sh [Applause] all right folks we are doing it 190 m miles for about an hour less than an hour to get home so I’m going to be honest with you pacing has gone out the window by this point who cares got a nice pizza hot bath 1 hour away get me home are you ready for tip number nine we’re nearly there [Music] where was I that just happens to be the last Hill on the way home too so no climbing left which is nice so tip number nine I’ve said this before and it’s an elaboration on a previous one I’ve mentioned this tip is probably the most important yet least spoken about the icy anyway previously talked about the ups and downs and get ready for the lows because the lows do come you can mitigate them by going through everything else we talked about but they will come still and on endurance riding you don’t have to put up here for very long you might get one on two lows highs great on Ultra riding get ready to ride that roller coaster trust me you’ll settle into a rhythm and it’s like a sine wave if you know what I mean a sine wave mood goes up mood goes down mood goes up mood goes down pain gets bad pain gets better pain gets bad pain gets better and so on so once you’ve been through that once or twice and you know it doesn’t last fine but when you’re out for a really long time just be prepared it will keep coming back but it’ll keep going away what I will say haven’t had any today zero apart from my normal 70 80 Mi I get a bit of a bump in the road I feel terrible that’s for me it doesn’t last very long so yeah maybe all the fueling and pacing is just what we need nearly there now so close I think it’s time to set the shades off I have to admit the feat there but to be honest could be worse I thought i’ be riding in the dark nearly dark not quite one tip left let’s blast home it’s quite a quick run back actually then we’ll give you that one last little nugget send you on your way [Music] [Music] thank you we are back in Portsmouth that was a amazing ride does anybody still watching then first of all well done second of all thank you really appreciate people watching these you’ve been with me 200 miles now about 10,000 ft climbing ched Goring back and didn’t even get any cheese so cheese is for us mises I got a cheese pizza though coming up so after all that one tip left anybody want to hear it okay hope this is a disappointment but have fun enjoy yourself this sort of thing can be stressful it is stressful all the planning involved the pacing the dieting it’s a lot to think about so right now 200 mi in around the corner from home take it from me it feels pretty good this doesn’t have to be just this log should be an adventure go somewhere new enjoy that personal growth spur you will get I’ve been doing this for quite a while so I don’t get quite the same excitement I maybe did at the start my first century my first double century but I love it and this all just goes to show so if you go about it the right way this isn’t a gift it’s not something you’re born with you have to learn all these things and it makes the process so much more pleasant anyway not to RAB it on now I’m going home for a bath and some pizza as I said at the start we’ll do some analysis on the ride if anyone’s interested in numbers won’t take very long but I’ll save the uh the breakdown for them it’s Peter time all right home recovered and that was an amazing ride it goes without saying as I mentioned earlier on I thought I’d round this off with a bit of an overview of the numbers give you an idea of what it takes to get through a ride like this distance-wise you can tell from the graphic it was roughly 202 miles it’s actually 2015 so just over a double century TimeWise it took me just under 14 hours to complete that all in 13 hours 47 minutes to finish it moving time was 12 hours 43 so I try to keep moving as much as possible and reduce the amount of time stopped because it just makes the day longer and longer and longer even with all the mandatory stops still works out quite a lot of stopped reducing that stop time is a bit of a challenge but I prefer just to keep moving calories wise is an interesting one so across that whole day I use whoop and whoop had me down at having burn just just under 11,500 calories for the whole day and I’ve worked out the calorie count for what I ate so this includes my breakfast before I left was overnight oats and then everything I ate on the ride so the overnight oats was 400 calories throughout the ride I ate bars 14 bars two sausage rolls had a bottle of Lucas a in my bottles to begin with stopped and bought a bottle of Dr Pepper for my bottles I bought a can of coke at one point all in all the amount of food8 to get through this was 4,300 so you start to see that’s not sustainable long term but eat sufficiently to get yourself through a Ride Like That is a real challenge I used heart rate to manage my effort my average heart rate was 137 beats per minute that’s pretty much right in the middle of the Zone too for me speed wise for those interested in average speed a lot of people are interested in average speed uh I started the ride earlier in the day ran about 17 m per hour average so pretty respectable and then as they went on more and more elevation more exhaustion that dropped down to less than 16 I think I ended up at 15.8 miles per hour average but I’m putting this in there for most people that are interested in that I’m not interested in average speed and elevation wise I mentioned 10,000 ft of elevation just under 9,700 ft of elevation so quite a lot of climbing including cheddar Gorge which is pretty Savage but really good fun not as bad as I expected it to be actually but a lot of fun so all in all that was an amazing day on the bike not exactly a typical weekend ride for me but not a Million Miles Away hopefully a lot of people found this interesting and useful and if there’s anything putting you off going out and doing a ride like this then follow those steps may not be perfect I’m not saying I’m the authority on this kind of riding but I hope it will make the process much more enjoyable for people so go out have an adventure any problems give me a message I’ll try to reply to every message feel free to drop me a message if you have any questions anyway I round it off there have a great week and I’ll see you all on the next one [Music] [Music] oh [Music]