HELP!!! Training for a HUGE ride

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did you really say "Our bike?"

Haha, yes, I just realized I did. I was just referring to me along with the rest of my team, since we all have the same bikes.

I'm impressed you can do 6mph. Sometimes all I can manage is 2 mph. I have had people passing by wonder how I could keep my balance going that slow.

But seriously, please listen to your body and PT. It takes building up endurance to spin up the hills. Please don't push yourself so hard that you kill your knees. I have a couple of friends who have had to have knee surgery already, and they're not even 35 yet. While they have resumed some of their activities, they regret not taking better care of their knees to start with.

Good luck, Green! Just do your best. You have already accomplished so much. I didn't do half of what you have already done my first year, but it was more than I had ever done previously, so I'm still very proud of what I was able to do then. You should be proud of what you've done too. I'll be cheering you on and looking forward to hear your stories about your future accomplishments.

Welcome to TE BTW!

~sgtiger

Thank you for the encouragement and welcome!

And, actually, I have gone about 3 mph up steep inclines. I seem to do a little better on hills, though.

Forgive me if I missed it, but what is the distance and elevation gain of your "HUGE" ride? Also, when is the ride?

It's a charity ride for cancer from Texas to Anchorage, Alaska. I know that sounds , but all of the past teams have made it, including people who had never been on road bikes before. There's two routes, and I'm doing the one that would go through the Rockies. I've heard that the Sierra/Coastal route has more steep uphills than Rockies does, though.

Our bike has a Shimano 10-Speed Cassette, 11-25T. I have no idea what that means...

And from what our fitness directors have been saying, they are thinking about having a 10-hour time limit on the century test. And it'll be through the Texas hill country.

The ride doesn't start until June 6th, which is kind of weird, since we're having the century test this early when we still technically have more than a month left before we leave. And it's also a little weird to have a hilly century test when the first weeks on the actual ride are pretty flat according to past riders... But I guess they just want us to be prepared.

I went on a hilly 23-mile ride the other day, and I was feeling fine. Just a little sore in the shoulders and back.