laughlaugh, the one thing that's been driven home to me about cycling time after time is... it's all relative. I tell the folks at work that I go on 20-30 mile rides and they look at me like I'm Hercules (and crazy). I then come here and read about other women riding centuries as a matter of course. I go out and grunt and gasp my way through 9 miles of what I think are pretty tough hills and think I'm getting pretty strong, and then I ride what's considered an "easy" 25 mile loop of hills and get so worn out that I wonder if I'm gonna make it back to my car. Oh, and then, of course, I come here and read about the ladies in the western half of the US who climb 3000-4000 thousand feet on just about every ride...

So I say, darned right it's kosher to say you completed that 25 mile ride! You and your bike both got to the end, and that counts