Minimum preparation time for a 300K brevet on a new bike?
Maybe it's post-hurricane mental weirdness, maybe I'm just strange....
But, I'm considering trying a 300k brevet on a new-to-me bike on the 22nd or so - and I don't even have the bike yet. It's being shipped Tuseday/Wednesday so I might have it this weekend.
Not only is the bike new/not "fitted" to me yet, it's a SWB(short wheel based recumbent) and I've not even ridden my LWB (long wheel based recumbent) Easy Racers Gold Rush Replica for weeks (lacking motivation).
What with post-hurricane recovery work on my house, yard, etc., I probably will only be able to get in 1 - 4 metrics and/or a 200k between now and the 300k brevet date.
So, the question is, how dumb is this idea? Seriously.
Completely foolish?
Totally out of my mind foolish?
Just plain arrogant to think I won't pay a heavy physical price?
Ballsy?
Stupid (as opposed to foolish)?
Something else?
Feel free to comment...ridicule..whatever.
(I'v survived Hurricanes Katrina, Gustav, Isaac, Betsy and Camille at close range... comments won't ruffle my feathers.)