I guess I must be "different". I have been routinely doing rides of distances between 40-70 miles since the start of March, but I still find the thought of a 100-mile ride looming in my future, to be very challenging. And mind you...I've ridden well over a dozen century rides since I embarked on this cycling hobby 4 years ago, so I wouldn't exactly consider myself a "newbie" to centuries. I rode 65-miles yesterday, and 67 miles today...yet as of this moment right now, riding 100 seems almost impossible to me. I looked back on my Garmin stats last night, and we rode our 1st 100-miler of the season last year on May 1st. That's like a week away but I don't see myself being ready to ride 100 by then. Which kind of discourages me a bit. But then again, I go through this "mental block" sort of thing at the beginning of every riding season. We get up to riding a certain distance (say 60-70 miles) on a fairly consistent basis (a month or so) and then I feel like I can't get past that distance. Even though I know that I can and will. It's so weird.

Linda