The Ride Schedule for 2007

Well, in order to ride PBP you need prove you have the ability to ride at least a successful 600K ride. Before you can ride a 600K you first need to successfully ride a 400K; before the 400K a 300K and before the 300K you must ride a 200K…oh and did I mention that you only have until the middle of the year to successfully finish all these rides???

A rather aggressive training program and ride schedule is what’s required for this year…and living in the Midwest with average temperatures not all that favorable for riding until…well…at least March or so…that does sort of cramp one’s training season a bit. So…a lot of indoor training rides combined with outdoor rides when weather permits is the rule of the land…

In order to qualify for PBP and not to have to travel to other cities for qualifying rides, I have come up with the following ride schedule for 2007. It’s rather aggressive, but doable:

March 10 – 200K
March 24 – 200K
April 14 – 300K (the only 300K scheduled in this area…so no screw-ups on this one)
April 28 – 400K
May 12 – 600K (or a 400K if I mess-up the April 28 400K somehow)
June 2 – 600K or 1000K

There is only one 300K scheduled for the Kansas City area this year…so I have to make sure that nothing goes wrong on that particular ride or I’ll be looking in other cities for a 300K to ride. Also the ride schedule is rather aggressive in that there are only two weeks between rides, with the ride distances doubling every 2-weeks.

I believe this year that you can for the first time complete the rides in any order, but why would anyone want to? Also if I for some reason mess-up on one ride, a longer ride can be substituted for a shorter ride, but it cannot count twice…so the self-imposed rule is…no screw-ups!

Anyway…back to my ride!