Targets for this year so far is the Tour of Flanders in Belgium on 4th April. They have 3 distances and an mountain bike one ranging from 50miles to 180 miles and anyone can join in and ride.

The following day the professionals do it and it's great to know that the route you're riding will be ridden all the major professional teams the next day, USPS, CSC, Team Telecom... i'm just starting out so i'll be doing the 50 miler.

In May I'm going to Italy for the week on a cycling holiday - it's not quite a training camp but i'll be riding everyday which, being a weekend rider only , I'm sure will kill me!

Waterlili - I read in procycling magazine a few months ago a letter from a guy who spotted Jan Ulrich mountain biking in Whistler late last summer.