The club offered a 30/60/100 ride through southern Indiana today and I decided to participate. I awoke thinking I would ride the 60 but once on the road I decided I was up to a century and so I switched plans midstream. The course started out fairly flat and remained so for the first 60 miles or so. At the midway lunch stop my average speed as a sound 16.5 mph. After leaving the lunch stop things got ugly - the winds picked up and we battled a head wind most of remaining 40 miles. At the last store stop I pulled BF aside and asked that he stick around the starting point until I got in or until he got a phone call to come get me. The muscles in my lower back were starting to talk to me and I knew the 30 remaining miles were mostly hills. We left the store stop together and he and his riding partner took off and I continued to battle the wind. At the most I could get my speed up to 13 or 14 mph when fighting the wind. My legs were starting to talk to me as well so I had a chorus of screaming body parts as I fought the wind and climbed the hills before me. I peaked a hill and saw BF waiting for me at the next turn. He stayed with me until I told him to go on for I knew he had a good ride going and I was slowing him down thus pulling his average speed down. He started to take off but reined his bike in and stuck close by for the remainder of the ride. So today I officially rode 103.94 miles and ended up with an average speed of 16.0 mph. It was a great day on the bike but I'm beat. I'm going to eat dinner (I'm treating myself to a steak and sweet potato). I do believe I'll be in bed early tonight with my cats nestled all around me.