OK, for real we’re doing some training now

Brice is putting something or other on the bikes right now and then we’re going on a little training ride. When people hear about our trip, they always say,

“Wow, you must be training a lot to get ready for that.”

“Um, no, actually, not at all.”

“Wait. What?”

And so it pretty much goes. The thing is, when you’re biking for 3 months straight, with no particular hard schedule to keep, the ride itself is its own training. If we take the first couple weeks pretty slowly — only 20 or 40 or so miles a day — we’ll get ourselves into it pretty nicely.

I think to some extent we feel a little guilty about that or something? Also maybe it’ll be nice to get some baseline level of cardiovascular not-dying-ness and butt callouses going. So we’ll see if we can manage a ride to Bethesda and back each day (for the record that’s about 6 miles total — yeah, pretty minimal, considering the 4,000-mile ride ahead of us). We’re not total couch potatoes as it is — we walk a couple miles a day — but we’d hardly be called athletes.

Don’t give me that raised eyebrow — this’ll be awesome!