> Know what? How do you say this without seeming to boast? I'm there now. I am fully confident I could handle this >weeklong ride from Telluride, Colorado to Moab, Utah with no up front training whatsoever. Careful Jim. I thought the same thing a few years ago. I seriously believed Arthur Jones' philosophies regarding specifity of training, and I figured I would be able to jump right back on a bike after years of high intensity weight training and be able to pick up right where I left off many years earlier. Boy, was I surprised. True, I re-adapted to the bike much more quickly than I would if I had been sedentary, but it certainly wasn't "easy". Same results with a backpacking trip a couple years ago. Even though as a youth I "lived" on a bike, and backpacked hundreds of miles, I revisited muscles I apparently had not used for years :) I suggest you do some specific training.