Neil_B, Thank you so much for those 2 quotes and the reassurance. That means a ton to me. I actually just printed them and put them up in my garage where I keep my bicycle and ride gear. Black wallnut thank you for pointing me towards the Cascade Bicycle club's training plan. I am defiantly going to give it a go. I wish I still lived on the West coast, that looks like it would be a blast. Unfortunately I live in a area where hills do not exist. So I'll defiantly be spending some time on exercise bikes.