Excellent tips throughout! The one thing you missed is hydration. Use tablets in at least every other bottle. Drink at least once every ten or fifteen minutes. Oh, and make sure your bike is in good repair. Before EVERY ride check tire pressure, chain lube, and that your axles are tight. Just recently, my friend rode with a slack quick release, hit a bump, lost a wheel, and suffered a broken arm and wrist and a dislocated shoulder.

This video is highly underrated! Excellent tips, well organised, just plain simple no nonsense production. Could have added: 1) the need for carrying two water bottles, 2) the importance of the right kind of eyewear.

I’m using a hybrid so will likely take 12 hours for my first century. Also the terrain here in Westchester County, just north of NY City dictates a somewhat hilly route.

Excellent video, very informative.

Well-structured good tips, cheers

Just did my first century…. Having a good partner was extremely important.

Thank you. You’ve sewn the seed.

Follow the 8 percent rule increase each weekend rides distance by 8 percent.

Disagree about not riding in warm weather i love riding in the hot weather I'm in my element then. Its the wind, rain and cold I cant stand.

Sun lotion? not much need for the that here, its the UK rarely gets hot enough or sunny enough to need it. Go tubeless with sealant no need for spare innertubes.

No mention of cycling shorts?

Chili?!