I should have paid more attention to that "century with a cold" thread, although I was only doing a metric. I do have a cold, though, and I really, really wanted to bail out after 45 miles. The only reason I didn't was that those SAG people kind of make you feel like a loser if you ask for a ride, plus my husband did the metric with me to help me out when he really wanted to do the imperial century. (He did ride a little further while I was resting, so he got 82 miles and a decent climb.) So I felt obligated to continue.

If I ever do that again I will practice my snot rockets first, because it is no fun to have to keep stopping to blow your nose. And I can't do it on a moving bike, at least not when we are going over the most rutted horrible roads I've ever ridden on.

I am also not sure it was a brilliant idea to go for a 25-mile ride on my new saddle, think, "Wow, this saddle is a lot harder than my Butterfly," and then make my next ride a 70-mile ride on the same saddle. Possibly I should have gone back to the old familiar for the long ride.

I have to say that there was really not much that was fun about the last 40 miles, but I made it, it was about 70 miles total according to my bike computer, and my cold doesn't feel any worse at the moment so maybe I will survive. And my butt survived, I don't seem to be dead, and my husband is still speaking to me, so I guess it worked out okay.