Diablo Cyclists

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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