I rode 55 miles today with 2,250 feet of climbing. Preparing for Cool Breeze century August 16th, which has about 4,000 feet of climbing. However, I had an epiphany today, near the end of my ride when my neck was really bothering me from being on the bike so long and my body just wanted to be done and my brian couldn't imagine doing almost twice that distance with another 1,500 feet of climbing. I decided I didn't HAVE to do that century! I can do the 62 mile metric instead and do the easier, flatter century a few weeks later that I recently heard about. Cool Breeze would be a wonderful training ride for that, plus the Amtrak Century dh and I are doing on the tandem the first week of September.

I'd rather have "fun" doing the Cool Breeze Metric and set myself up for a more successful and less miserable first century (on my single ... cause I will have done two on the tandem by then).

So there. I'm proud of myself. Now I just have to tell my training partner and not let her change my mind!