Another century you might think about is the CBES century. I'd planned to do the Seagull last year, but they were predicting horrid weather, and it was going to be my first century and I just didn't want to do it under such miserable conditions. So I stumbled across the CBES century in October and did that one instead. It was incredibly manageable. There were only about 300 people registered for the whole thing, and that was split among 20-, 40- 60- and 100-mile options. I'd imagine there were only about 50 people or so doing the full century. It was nice not to have to fight the crowds at all. The only downside was that I was doing it by myself, and there were many stretches (especially miles 60-100) where I would go for miles and miles without seeing a single person on the road. Could have used a *few* people to keep my motivation up.

Anyway, a good century. You can check out this year's at:
http://www.cbes.org/events_biketour.htm

OK, I guess it's *really* called the Between the Waters Bike Tour. CBES stands for Citizens for a Better Eastern Shore, which is the group that puts it on.

Oh, and did I mention it's FLAT?