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When you get to the point where you can do a 20 to 30 mile exercise ride and when you are done, you feel just like you did before the ride, you are ready. If at the end of a 20 to 30 mile ride you feel like you need to take a break and relax for a while, then you are not ready. That said, how one defines ready will vary greatly from one person to the next, thus others might disagree with my definition.