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Smurf:

If you can do the 45-miler, you can do the 62, probably no sweat.

Find your pace, and stick with it. Do not let yourself go anaerobic... but ride in your comfort zone, your happy place. Way down inside somewheres, you know where that is. Ride with a buddy and draft with each other, or make a friend or ally out on the road to share the work in the wind. Where there's a wheel to follow, there's a way.

If your normal ride is 20 miles or so, then break the ride into 3 pieces, say between the rest stops or whatever. Then do your normal ride, only you do it three times with a little break in between...

The most important thing is to wrap your mind around the idea, "I can do this." If you toe the start line thinking "I'm sunk... I'm in over my head," then you certainly will be.

Instead, set your mind to something like, " I am a hard-a##, and I 'm going to grind this thing under my wheels." When you've got your mind right on your goal, you can do it,and looking back, you'll be amazed at yourself.

You go, girl!...