Hi,

I had been planning to do the Ride from Seattle to Vancouver plus Party (186 miles in two days, lots of rolling hills) with our adult daughter; my wife felt it was too demanding for her to want to do it.

She changed her mind yesterday, and signed up.

That's great, except now we have a decision to make on which bike(s) to use, the tandem or our singles.

She has ridden very similar terrain for as much as 74 miles, so I am sure that with proper training, she can do this ride on her single bike. She will be much slower than our daughter and I would have been, which is ok; we have all day.

We're thinking that perhaps riding the tandem would be a good idea. There are two or three significant climbs on which we will struggle (but should be able to slog out way up without walking), but the vast majority is fairly flat, on which we're much faster on the tandem than she is on her single.

In the experience of other old couples (we're mid-60s) who are fit and reasonably athletic, is riding a tandem this far a good idea, or a bad one, relative to riding separate singles?

Thanks.

Mark