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I added miles in 20-25 increments. My thought process was (in your case) I did 27 km so I KNOW I can do that....so I'll just add another 27 kms. If that works for you, you would be doing a metric century in 4 wks give or take.

and I gotta ask coz darn it Audio - now you've got me thinking: how far is an imperial century?


does anyone know of any Long Distance Riders Anonymous meetings in my area?

Hello, My name is Leslie and I'm a bike-a-holic. (TE gang: Hello, Leslie!)...

I doubt I'll be going a century tomorrow. I rode today with another woman, and we started out way, way too fast, so even though we got our miles in (sorry C-Mac - I can't help myself!) I'm feeling it tonight. I'm gonna ride, but we'll see about the mileage.

An imperial century is 100 miles, a metric century is 62.6 miles, or 100 kilometers. So, a few weekends ago, I did an imperial century, followed by a metric. I've never done back-to-back 100 mile days. Maybe next weekend... Sorry, I can't help myself!

Oh - Early on, I think it's important to slowly build up miles, but I believe that after a time, that 10% rule can get stretched, quite a bit. I was regularly doing 40, slowly bumped up to 50, and then rather quickly went to 60, 64, 74, 80, and then started doing 100's. No ill effects to speak of, except for this pesky addiction.