100 Mile Ride

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Originally Posted by Lakerider

Well, there's a road that goes 1/2 mile back, right next to the lake. So in and back out is a mile. I covered that road 101 times! My husband said that must have been boring, but it wasn't. The water is so beautiful. I love watching the herons, ducks & geese and the fish jumping in the water. Each lap was a little different. People who live nearby are very friendly and always wave.

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:eek:WOW! I quickly learned during marathon training to never do loops--it's too easy to crawl in the car and go home! You're a stud!

Yes, I was thinking the same thing about loops. Too easy to call it a day, so I am also impressed that you could just keep going.


-Sue

I'd like to hear from more of you who have ridden 100+ miles.

Wow!!! I've done tons of centuries, and a few with laps (Bike Sebring,and my 100 Miles to Nowhere) but the shortest loops I did were 2.2 miles. I couldn't imagine doing it on that short of a loop. Impressive!

I've never really done a mile century, but plenty of kilometre centuries. My longest recent ride was 130km to a seaside town in Malaysia. Lots of hills and whatnot. terrain i'm not used to, and incredible heat. With 3 one hour long rest stops, it took the two of us about 9 hours. the last 20 kms were truly mentally diffficult. but I was kinda unfit so we rode at touring speed. TZhe trip home the day after was good, cloud cover all the way until the last leg, where we rode 40kms in the rain and mud on bad roads with city traffic... stressfull..

Last year i participated in a charity endurance rice where i rode 320kms in 24 hours. I did escape to take a 6 hr nap though. I had an exam the next day and a thunderstorm was threatening. My place was on the route, so i went home took a shower and a nap before continuing in the morning for the last 2 hrs. It was alright, except I wore the tights i disliked (because they were long and would protect me from the sun) coz of the chamois surface. Also super thick chamois trapped alot of heat... not good for long distances. We had friends who came and rode parts of the ride with us, cheering us on when we were the most tired. Some of my friends took turns to draft me on certain windy stretches. All in all it was good good fun :D definitely a good experience to have. (some guy managed to ride 600kms in that 24 hrs...)

Congrats Lakerider, nice job! :)

I've done a few solo centuries, never done one on an organized ride (I did a couple of organized metric centuries before I realized that I don't like organized rides).

Mine were always long routes though, I can't imagine being motivated enough to keep going on a short loop like that, very impressive.