Thanks so much for posting this. I, too, want to train this year for a century, sometime in August or September. I live in New England and it's just way too icy/cold/miserable out there to ride right now. I've been spending lots of time on my trainer with a general program out of the Sidwells book (7-wk Cycling for Fitness). Once it warms up, I'm hoping to do some 40 and 50 mile group rides and it sounds like that will be good training.

We just don't have the cycling community where I live for women's clubs, but our local bike shop is trying to step up and get a bunch of us (male and female) out riding together. Do you all have clubs that you belong to, that you train with?

Thanks!

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