I'm in the middle of an MBA program and was hoping to commute down to Hyde Park in Chicago when school started up next month - it would have been a decent 14 or 15 mile ride each way - great exercise. Unfortunately I just found out that recruiting events start immediately and run essentially through late November.

That means a lot of suit and ties, early morning coffee chats and corporate conversations, a lot of late evening networking events, a generally unpredictable schedule, and a lot of dinners or drinks downtown. It isn't going to be feasible to bike

I'm bummed cause I was really hoping to make it to the point where I could do a century this year. Does anyone think its possible to pull off the training needed for one by biking just on weekends?

Totally shameless plug while I'm at it: Anyone in the DC/MD/VA or Chicago area that works for a good firm and would be willing to have a phone chat let me know! (Or a coffee works too). I promise no hard sell on my part - I'm just trying to discover firms that might not necessarily be on my radar. (There are a lot of great companies out there that just don't come to campus, but would be wonderful places to work). For the sake of context, I'm a strategy and finance major looking at, primarily, corporate finance or strategy and general management/leadership rotational programs.