Resurrecting my own thread here. to say EEEEEP! a bunch of guys at work have not only been bugging me to do this ride this summer (instead of next), but have even decided to set up a team. I'm going to be under very heavy pressure to join them.

Which is fine, as such, as I'd love to do the ride and I'd love to do it with them, but I AM worried that I'm going to have trouble training enough for it. I'm really not into doing the ride just to prove I can finish it, I want to have a good ride and feel I can handle it. I would also rather die than be the weakest one in the team and just suck on to their back wheels the whole way...

Which means some looong rides in my future. It doesn't help that they just laugh at my overtraining worries and intricately crafted spreadsheets on how to gradually increase distance and effort

Heeelllp...