Jen:

You've got ten weeks... so yeah, it's possible, but you need to get out and ride. Bicycling Magazine has a ten-week schedule that's quoted quite often on how to ride a century, somewhere they have a similar schedule for a fifty mile ride or metric century. I know there's a copy of it in their Long Distance Cyclist's Handbook, from Rodale Press, not sure if they've got it on their web site.

For now, here's a century training schedule that we put together for a local ride at the end of September, you can basicaly cut the distances in half, and be ready for the fifty-miler: http://www.kidsarus.org/centennial/b...e/schedule.pdf

If you can't ride 6 days a week like this schedule says, don't worry about it. Ride at least three times during the week, and on the weekend or a free day, do one "long" ride of at least 90 minutes at what you consider your touring, or event pace. Work up to the point where you can spend up to 3 hours in the saddle (with breaks, of course) and you should be good to go...

Tom