A road-cycling training journal
Train for the century, the double, the long climb
Diablo Cyclists is written for US club and recreational riders building toward centuries, doubles and long event days — the training weeks, the climbs and the rides themselves.
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Before the first big week
Three things every long day rewards
Plans before products
Training comes first here: weekly mileage, pacing and recovery before any talk of gear.
Pace, not bravado
A long ride is finished at an effort you can hold, so fuelling and restraint get as much room as intervals.
Numbers you set yourself
Where a target depends on your own fitness, terrain or weather, this journal says so instead of printing a figure.
About this journal
Written for riders chasing the long ones
Diablo Cyclists is a working record of road training: the build weeks, the climbs that decide a century, and what a long day in the saddle actually asks of a club rider.
It starts with century and double-century training and widens into the routes, the riding skills and the kit that long days depend on.
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