The training schedule has been rolled out from the first week of July 2009 to the first week of October. The Bike to Finish MS is schduled for October 10th and 11th. Relatively flat, coastal ride of 150 miles. There won't be one single day that I anticipate riding a century ride to prepare for this ride due to time and the lack of a support team or someone that can commit to the same 100 miles in a given day.
The planned training includes 75 miles, on average, per week in the months of July and August. September, I will bump this up to 120 miles per week to get acclimated to longer rides and pacing myself instead of going all out on typical bike rides. I also plan on taking the last 7 days leading up to the ride off as a "recovery period". Nothing does a body good like rest.

I'm confident that this ride will be a successful one for personal reasons as well as for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society from bikers like myself, "virtual riders" and support from friends and family that have supported all of the pieces to this puzzle. I'm also confident that with the collective support such as this our children and their children will only about Multiple Sclerosis by reading about it in a text book and never have to experience a loved one with MS or afflicted themselves with this debilitating desease.