I was never seeking blind encouragement. There is a LOT of reason for my (poorly-laced) sarcasm.

First, today is March 28, 2011. I wouldn't even consider letting her go unless she was able to get up to speed on her own before March 28, 2012.

That's 52 weeks of riding. Even at a leisurely pace, she could get in 51 weeks of riding with 100 mile weeks before Christmas. I don't see that as being too aggressive. That's, at a min. 5100 base miles. I could go on and on, but none of the details of this is really important.

I said that I would work her up to a two day, 100 mile total, weekend to see how she felt at that point. I did not mean this weekend, or even next weekend.

Hell, the root of the idea was flexible enough that with a year to plan, train and prepare we might find a lot of things that have to be changed. Hence the reason I gave it an entire year (not including April, May and June) -- so technically 15 months before we rolled one single mile onto this.

I apologize for losing my cool. I was very happy that she wanted to do this ride, and was impressed that she wanted to on her own accord. It's neither here nor there now, I've already said that what advise had been given to me was accurate. That I made the wrong assumption that this would be akin to a credit card touring experience. I'm doing it solo as a rando. She's going to go up with her parents and listen to them preach and drive her insane (gotta love in-laws) while I take the five days and do it alone.

Once again, I'm sorry for anything I said that offended anybody.