For increasing cycling distance, I found it just sort of happened organically for me. I started out with a goal of commuting to work by bike while also prehabbing and rehabbing my major knee surgery. At that time my commute was around 11km each way. Then I slowly started adding distance to the commute if I had the time or desire. Things like "taking the long way home around the reservoir" and making that 11km to 30km. Eventually I started just doing rides for the sake of rides which were unrelated to my commute. I think I did my first century ride a couple of years ago but I usually now average about one per month. I agree that it's not overly difficult to do 100km as long as you're prepared with water/food and pace yourself. I find the bigger thing with the longer rides is that I honestly just get bored. I like to do lots of different physical activities and cycling is just one of them, so I don't want to spend all my time on the bike.
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