Would probably need 8-12 days. I've never bikepacked, but I'm an experienced ultralight backpacker and mountain biker. I'm not very fast. I can do 10-11k rides, but they take me about 10 hours. I've been able to do 10k rides for a couple years now, but only started "training" this past fall when I started XC collegiate racing for the first time. I did threshold training by mountain biking on a fixed loop (12mi, 2k) and brought my time down from 1:25 to 1:10 from fall to late winter. I also worked on getting in some base road miles. Longest road ride was 240 miles, +22k over 2 days (avg. 10-13 mph). More recently I built a singlespeed mountain bike, which seems like it would be good training for multi-day mountain biking. I've been doing back to back rides of 3-6 hours on weekends with a regular mountain bike or road bike and one singlespeed ride 2 hrs during the week.
If you're not familiar with the CSTR, here is the website.
http://www.californiasierratrailrace.com/The_Route.phpDoes anyone have advice for me? Particularly anyone who was ever in a similar position, I'd be interested if you tried something too ambitious and how it ended up going. Does anyone think it is a conditionally good idea, such as if I were able to do ride X 3 days in a row I'd be fine?
Also, I was thinking of hiking the Sierra High Route (~10 days) late June, which would give me 2-3 weeks recovery and I don't know if that would have a positive or negative impact.
