I am not advocating the couch to 100 mile ride program, I am just wanting to satisfy my curiosity as I train this spring.

1. If you have completed a century ride (US, not metric) what was your longest ride prior to the century?

2. Who has the largest gap or a very large gap of miles between a training ride and a century? How did the ride go for you?

Also, what training programs do you like? I am using one from last year that I tweaked because it had me on the bike 6/7 days a week which just doesn't work for my schedule.

Again, I am not looking for an excuse to ride 100 after warming the couch all winter, I just want some stories to play around with in my head while I ride................ "so and so did the 100 after only logging a 40 mile ride, says the inner drill sargent"................that kind of thing.

Also, what advice or words of wisdom keep you riding mile upon mile upon mile?

I always think.."I can do 5 more miles."