So what are your plans for Friday?

Maybe you'll finish the work week at the office or clean the house and do laundry while the kids are in school.

On Friday evening, perhaps you'll take in a movie or watch part of the state high school wrestling tournament.

Then you'll get some good, end-of-the-week sleep.

And Saturday morning, you'll read the paper and start your weekend.

And while you're doing all of those ordinary kinds of things, Keith Frick and Bob Thunselle will be riding their bikes - without stopping.

Frick, 49, and Thunselle, 48, will ride their training bikes with the back wheels stabilized from 9 a.m. Friday to 9 a.m. Saturday inside Lifetime Health & Fitness, 300 Landmark Drive in Casper. They are trying for 300 miles each.

Both are members of the Casper Cycling Club, and this initial 24 hours is only the beginning of months of organized activity on their bikes.

The end result, they hope, will be a sizeable contribution from the good folks of Wyoming toward the new Ronald McDonald House in Denver, where 37 percent of the families who stayed in 2006 were from Wyoming.

Their average length of stay was 22 days and they were from 34 towns in Wyoming, according to Pam Whitaker, executive director of Denver RMH Charities.

Ronald McDonald House will build a new facility with 45 family residence rooms at a cost of $11 million. Efforts so far have raised $8 million, and the Casper Cycling Club has undertaken this major fundraiser to get closer to the goal.

Frick and Thunselle will cycle in a room at the health club with 25 yellow stationary bikes, and they hope those bikes will be filled with folks wanting to encourage them, get a workout or be a part of a worthy cause.

"An hour, a half hour, whatever they can stay, we're grateful," Thunselle said Wednesday as he and Frick talked about how to set up the room.

After the club closes Friday evening, folks should use the north door, which will stay open all night for the event. The bikes are located in a room immediately to the right of the main lobby area.

Frick, who owns Wyoming Optical, says the 24 hours will double the record continuous time they've spent on a bike.

Thunselle, who works for Trivent Financial for Lutherans, says it's a mere warmup for the pair's ultimate goal, the 508-mile Furnace Creek 508 from Oct. 7 to 9 from Santa Clarita to Twenty Nine Palms, Calif., and through the Mojave Desert and Death Valley.

The whole project comes with the name, "Kick In for Kids with Wyoming Wheels."

Thunselle is not bashful about the group's goal.

"My goal is for Keith and I to have $100 per mile for each of us for each of the 508 miles in total pledges and corporate sponsorship by the time we get to California," Thunselle said. "That would make that 508th mile worth riding."

As for this weekend, Frick said they'd appreciate the company on the stationary bikes, but if folks want to pay to ride, that would be great too.

"We'll take a lump sum or their change from dinner or whatever they have," he said.

Community news editor Sally Ann Shurmur can be reached at (307) 266-0520 or sallyann.shurmur@casperstartribune.net.