Etape du Loony

I just signed up to do Act 2 of the 2012 Etape du Tour.
I have been running 39 miles a week and cycling 80 for a while. As I start to ramp up the cycling by doing long weekend rides I plan to do the first two months on a fixed gear bike. I'm supposed to start in January but the Tourmalet and the Aubisque scare the holy hell out of me so I am starting now in mid-November. I will not fail because of lack of training. I am 41 years old and weigh 81kg. I will need to be 73kg. Call it a mid-life crisis. There might not be another chance for me to attempt something so incredibly stupid with a chance of survival in the years to come. I will suffer and I plan on suffering every day to practice putting myself in hell. Greg Lemond once said: It never gets any easier, you just go faster.