For anyone who’s interested in cycling stuff —

I’m thinking of riding Waves to Wine in September, the Northern California MS 150 ride. It’s two days, 75 miles each day (in challenging hilly terrain).

I have the book Long Distance Cycling which has several training programs in it for a century, two basic ones and one that’s for second centuries where you want to improve. Is a training program for a century adequate for the MS 150, or is it going to come in too low on giving me the endurance I’ll need for the consecutive days? If any of them might be adequate, would it need to be the more intense one?

Or would I have to find a different training program? Is the MS 150 not a very good first really long-distance goal because it’s longer than a century in aggregate and I should stick to just a century this year?

A century would still be a very major goal for me since my longest mileage in one day so far is 40 miles during last year’s Sequoia Century 50K (which I’ll probably repeat this year since the longer courses still look really intimidating, but we’ll see). The positive thing is I certainly wasn’t completely wiped after that because I hosted a party that same evening, and I’d done little if any real training (riding my bike to work more than usual was about it) so with training it should be easier.

Any thoughts from those of you who’ve attempted some longer distances, or know people who have?