Silvers, let me get back to you regarding dinner. I'm planning on doing the ride with a couple I know from my training ride and I wouldn't be surprised if we ate soemthing before driving down there early in the evening. That's what we did last year. Once in Terre Haute, we registered, got our bikes unloaded, our gear laid out and went to bed.

Susan, I don't know much about that Bloomington ride, but one ride that my friends do every year and love is Hoosier Hills. It's usually in mid-September. http://bloomington.in.gov/parks/hoosierhills.php. I was just coming back from BRAT last year, so I didn't do it.

Also, there's a club ride called JAWS in early June that's good (and hard). It's put on by the Central Indiana Bicycling Association. It's not a fee ride and you can just show up on the day of. It's one of the few centuries that the Club puts on and there are other route lengths offered. I did the 58 mile route last year and that was plenty for me after having done the century at the Horsey two weeks earlier.