I'm totally intrigued, welcome MM_QFC!, so what does it mean? Are you the rider formerly known as Hey, Girlie? But training all year is important, and I suggested the rollers because commitment vs misery is often a lose lose struggle. I've been eyeing rollers from PerformanceBike or Nashbar for years, but must confess I never bought them 'cause on the Gulf coast we can find lovely days all "winter" (term means fewer mosquitoes here). I use a mountain bike with slicks at night on the street, but I know people who do mindless TV time on the rollers instead of the couch and my god are they fit! You can really work on spin technique and keep up with ER. I'm coming back from three years of severe injury and totally envy you Since, I want to make the Great Adventure Ride and have a ways to go before I ride 60 miles again.
So where are you riding Since? Sounds like a ride across a continent, how fabulous!
For years, all my training, weights and various sports, then a lot of rehab, was written down and put in a binder from the drugstore. I knew where I'd been, and the days work was there waiting to be checked off. Use paper in festive colors, it helps, and those gridded charts from the weight room are good. This way, you set up a program and then don't have to think about it on a daily basis, just show up and do it. So much easier! Also, you can write in exchanges, for days when you just can't deal with whatever. If another spin class is going to make you implode, go to a skating rink and be aerobic for that 50 minutes but get a good laugh out of it. Hike or ski or whatever sometimes, just get that basic aerobic goal met but avoid the boredom. Crosstrain. Going dancing counts as long as you don't get plastered and you do break a sweat.
One last thing- this is creepy. You need weight lifting or weight bearing work. The anti boredom crosstraining will probably do. All riding and nothing else can give you "bird bones" and it's a really freaky feeling. I got it, and I'm built like a cement bunker. The body can adapt to cycling by ditching bone mass to lighten the load and not only will this screw you up in old age, if you fall you break those weaker bones easily. You can tell if you ever get there, like I said it's creepy. Those really scrawny guys you see who only go to work and ride- not racers with lots of muscle mass- they have this. Some people are more prone than others. Do some basic weights after spin class, you'll be fine. I just mention it because you will be in hard training down the line (a state of grace!) and you need to know this stuff. Once you get in shape for this tour you'll be doing more events, right?

Merry Christmas, girls!

missliz