Yes, that's how I did it 30 years ago - just rode for the fun of it, without any goals or preparation, and did the long rides without too much suffering (usually - lol). Still, it's been a moral booster for me to now be able to at least have a set goal and "train" so to speak for it, and much better than my not riding at all, as was the case 10 years ago (though I was still a cyclist in spirit). The one problem is the lack of a riding group - my old group were my present age 25 years ago, and most are now beyond riding age, so it's been a problem, since the young cyclists are mostly into the extreme/peloton kind of cycling, and I never had the heart/lung capacity for that kind of pace (anything over 17 is beyond my comfort zone, but I can ride 15 all day)...
Last edited by Glades2; 07-11-10 at 01:49 PM.