At age 57, a Lawrence woman is gearing up for another bicycle challenge.

It’s a 100-mile ride June 3 at Lake Tahoe, Nev., through the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training.

Bonnie Hall has been riding bicycles since she was a child, but became more serious about it during the past 10 years. In 1997, she completed the Des Moines Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. The following year, she finished the Lighthouse Tour in Nova Scotia. Both were weeklong events and covered about 500 miles.

She trained for the Lake Tahoe event last year with her husband, Ron, but broke her wrist on Easter Sunday while bicycling. Hall said she couldn’t unclip her shoe from the pedal and then hit a curb and fell. Her wrist took the brunt of her weight during the fall. Though disappointed, she still maintained a positive spirit for her team.

“With my wrist and arm in a cast, I accompanied the team and cheered them on throughout the ride,” she said. “This year I am more determined than ever to complete the training and fundraising and finally get to participate in the ride.”

The Halls have been training for this year’s event since January. They have a mentor, coach and honored patient who help keep them motivated.

They ride about 20 miles three days a week and weight train on the other days. She said they typically ride to Lone Star Lake, Lakeview Lake or Vinland. While riding, she said the biggest problems are dogs who chase them and poor road conditions, which she reports to the city.

On Saturdays, they take a long ride with their 12-member team in the Kansas City area. The Halls and Robert Dunlap are the only members from Lawrence.

Bonnie Hall considers heat and hills to be her biggest challenges while bicycling, so she was kind of dreading today’s 30-mile hilly ride.

She said the training has been time-consuming, but it has been worth it because it raises money to fight blood cancers.

Emily Clark, campaign manager for Team In Training’s Mid-America Chapter, said 75 cents of every dollar will go toward patient service programs and research of leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma.

“It’s amazing how if they didn’t have this research to come up with these new drugs and so forth that they wouldn’t be around,” Bonnie Hall said.

She said raising the money is the most difficult part of the event. The Halls each need to raise $4,000 by Tuesday and are still short of their goal. The team members hope to raise funds through a wine tasting and silent auction Sunday in Kansas City and through their individual Web sites.

If they don’t raise the money, it will come from their pocketbooks.

Either way, Bonnie Hall said she is determined to finish the “event of a lifetime.”