COLUMBIA (AP) – Special Olympic athletes in Missouri could soon have a training center to rival those of their U.S. Olympic team counterparts.

The proposed Training for Life Campus would offer year-round training at a 44,000-square-foot athletics complex in Columbia. Project boosters with the Special Olympics Missouri organization say the complex would be the largest of its kind in the country.

The organization is hosting a charity bicycle ride on the Katy Trail this weekend to raise money for the project. A pair of two-day rides will begin in Clinton and St. Charles and conclude in Jefferson City, with each route exceeding 100 miles.