I may be preaching largely to the converted, but I'm currently organising a 3 week cycling challenge over in the Century+ Cycling Group... it's themed around the Tour De France, and consists of 4 teams of 9 riders, each of which are tasked with riding (between the 9 of them) a distance and ascent equal to that days stage of the tour de france.

At the moment, we have 8 vacant slots (well - 2 of them were provisionally booked, but the people haven't replied to confirm details yet, so - well - if they can't be arsed, I'll take someone who's keen instead - after all, if they can't say yes or no within 3 days, what chance do they have of being reliable enough to actually particpate for 3 weeks...)

If you fancy a look at what's involved, have a look at this thread -

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10139694/2015-mfp-grand-tour-challenge-signup-and-discussion-thread

- if you're not already a member of the century+ group, then you may have to sign up to post to the thread...

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/3764-century-plus-cycling

Any quick questions, give me a shout - there's quite a few of the participants of the challenges who are members of this group as well, who'll probably tell tales of what a grumpy sod I am, but they keep coming back for the challenges (this is at least the 3rd year of them so far - covering the Giro d'Italia, TdF and LaVuelta) - and if you're interested please express your interest in the thread linked above as soon as possible.

Thanks all...