In a month and a half I'm going with Jobie to do the "Whiskey Off-Road":http://www.epicrides.com/wor/wor.htm ride, which is an endurance ride starting up in Prescott, which is about 200 miles north of here, past Phoenix. I think it's out of the valley and up at high enough of an altitude (about 5500 feet according to "gmap pedometer":http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/) that it won't be a brutally hot as Tucson or Phoenix would be. I'm doing the 50 mile course because I'm insane like that. The longest one-day ride I've done so far was the 80-mile day one of "the MS150 ride":http://feralboy.com/log/archives/001118/. And that was on pavement. And on a road bike. With gears. I'm trying to mentally calculate just how many bottle cages I can fit on one bike to supplement my Camelback. Today Jobie is busting out his single-speed road bike, and we're going to do a climb up Mt. Lemmon. The plan is to ride at least twice a week until the ride, and I'm hoping I don't turn into a complete jellied mess today given how much time I've had off from hard exercise.

If I don't pick up a bike between now and then I'll be using Jobie's Rig again, but with the swap meet coming up this weekend I'm hoping to be able to find something.