Self-Supported Centuries and What's Your Favorite Century

[jobob]

If you'd like to come to the Bay Area in August, registration for the Holstein Hundred opened up today, but it will likely fill up fast. It's a very nice ride in Marin County. There's a thread about it in the California section.

[silver]

I do century rides by myself. So I quess you could call them self supported century rides.

I've done 3 total. There is a course marked out by the local club in my area.

I do it to enhance my training. I do it to push my limits and make me stronger. I do it when I see that the weather is going to be beautiful and I want to be outside all day. I don't have to travel anywhere to do it, no extra time involved.

I rearrange my errands and work and obligations so that I can spend the daylight hours on the road. my route goes through little towns that have little convenience stores so that I can refuel. Mr. is home on the weekends and so I try to keep the weekends open for spending time with him, so I do my long rides during the week.

I've gone out a few times to try to ride a century and just wasn't feeling it. The weather wasn't inspiring or the training didn't feel right, or I got a call that I needed to go do something, so those days maybe I only got 50 or 70 miles, but that's still good training.

My question to you is why NOT do a self-supported century ride. The ones that I've done are some of the best riding days of my life.